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This robot can turn your plastic garbage into raw material for 3D printers
A cute new machine recycles plastic into filament for 3D printers. You should get one. When they actually are available, which will happen, uh, soon.
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Washington’s brand-new governor, Jay Inslee, wastes no time promoting clean energy
Inslee's first act as governor was to write the head of a clean energy company and invite that company to move to Washington state.
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EPA drops methane inquiry to keep oil company happy
The EPA had been investigating a case of water contamination that might have come from fracking -- until the fracking company complained.
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Did Google kill a donkey in Botswana?
It looks … dead. In fact, it looks … like it got RUN OVER BY THE STREET VIEW CAR.
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
By Janet Larsen The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s largest crop) and wheat in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Australia. Each […]
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Proposed wind farm gets the OK to kill bald eagles, which will definitely not backfire
There's no way that the government giving approval to kill bald eagles would be used against the wind industry, right?
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Utah smoothie shop owner charges extra if you don’t love oil
The "I Love Drilling Juice and Smoothie Bar" charges liberals a dollar extra, though it seems doubtful many will show up.
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Glam locks: The not-so-secret secret to naturally gorgeous hair
Grist's green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, scours the land for alternatives to chemical-laden shampoo, and finds the answer right in the kitchen cabinet.
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Soot is the second-most dangerous global warming pollutant
New findings suggest that particulate emissions pose a serious threat to the climate.
