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Rooftop solar vs. utilities: The San Antonio episode
San Antonio's municipal utility wants to slash the subsidy it provides for rooftop solar power, which would be bad news for the fledgling solar-installation industry.
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Mess with beavers, pay the price
When Beavers Attack. That's all. That's enough.
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This Tumblr will tell you what to do with all that weird food cluttering your cupboard
No matter how simply you try to live, you will eventually accumulate strange food items that sit in your cupboard or refrigerator forever.
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Even Bitcoin mining has an environmental impact
At a certain point, the huge amounts of processing power needed to mine bitcoins translates into notable energy consumption.
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Moapa to Lead Powerful, Symbolic Walk from Coal to Clean Energy
The 2012 Moapa Band of Paiutes “Walk from Coal to Clean Energy.” Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes are organizing a 16-mile “Walk from Coal to Clean Energy” on April 20, 2013 in concert with Earth Day. This walk will celebrate the tribe’s efforts to retire the polluting Reid Gardner coal plant that adjoins their […]
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Another wild hurricane season ahead, forecasters say
Nine hurricanes are expected to develop in the Atlantic this summer season, including five major hurricanes -- more than the long-term average.
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This dude lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years, supporting himself with over 1,000 burglaries
You think you're in tune with nature? Yeah, get back to us when you've spent nearly 30 years with no other company.
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The secret to bigger, healthier crops may be urine
Pee. It might be really good for crops. And then again, it might not be. It's a matter of some pee-bate.
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Of a Kind brings ‘know your farmer’ mentality to clothing
We rarely know where our clothing has been, who made it, or how it was dreamed up. This apparel site tells those tales.
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To survive, fast food will have to think fresh
We all know what Bad Fast Food looks like. Millions of Americans eat the stuff. But can there be such a thing as "Good Fast Food"?