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Cities compete to win Bloomberg funds for innovative projects
One idea from Milwaukee: Turn foreclosed houses into local food processing and education centers. Yum!
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The Energy Game is Rigged: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Topped $620 Billion in 2011
By Emily E. Adams The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil, and natural gas from their prices. Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to conservative estimates from the Global Subsidies Initiative and the International Energy Agency (IEA), governments around […]
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Shell to ‘pause’ Arctic drilling in 2013
Shell says it needs more time to figure out how best to drill the hell out of Alaska's offshore areas.
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Little kid writes adorable letter apologizing for taking sticks out of Yosemite
Yosemite Junior Ranger Evie's code: Take only pictures, leave only painfully cute apology notes for accidentally taking sticks as well.
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Titantic replica will have to dodge even more icebergs than the original
Possibly-crazy rich guy Clive Palmer is spending his hard-earned fortune on building a replica of the Titanic.
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Nine reasons China won’t need enough coal to justify coal ports in the Pacific Northwest
U.S. coal companies justify the push for coal export terminals in the U.S. Northwest by claiming that China's appetite for coal is endless. A new report shows that they are wrong.
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We used to respect animals enough to give them a fair trial before putting them to death
What changed? Factory farming was introduced.
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Can we afford to give a $40 billion gift to oil companies?
BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and pals have been pumping millions of barrels of oil from the Gulf of Mexico without paying a dime in royalties.
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Street photographer gets screwed by corporation, responds by raising money for disadvantaged kids
Our favorite street photographer, Humans of New York, had his photos used without compensation. His response? Raising money to send kids to camp.
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This funny-looking creature is your ancestor, and it needs a name
The best option right now is to call it the "hypothetical placental mammal," which doesn't really have much of a ring to it.
