Latest Articles
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How the shale boom came to North Dakota — and how it’s spreading west
There's lots of shale oil in Colorado and California too, but residents of those states are more suspicious of fracking.
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Dolphins have been acting really nice lately and we’re scared
Perhaps we've been too hasty in trashing dolphins. Or perhaps something weird is going on.
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We kinda never want to get on the subway again after reading this horror story
D.C.'s WMATA did when it left hundreds of passengers stranded underground for hours after a track fire stopped service.
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Dodge made ‘God made a farmer’ Super Bowl ad, and I made an angry face
Dodge's whitewashed ad wasn't honoring farm work as it exists in America today.
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China’s pollution reaches Japan. Next stop: California
The record levels of soot pollution are making their way around the world, as air pollution tends to do.
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Meet the activists who think they can save the planet with porn
PETA's got nothing on Berlin NGO Fuck For Forest, which sells porn to buy threatened rainforest land.
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Super Bowl ad brawl: SodaStream does what Sierra Club can’t
Companies selling products that cut down on waste might end up leading the cultural push against overconsumption.
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Newly discovered bacterium poops gold
Everybody run out and get some Delftia acidovorans, so you can add to the emergency stash of precious metal that you keep under your basement stairs!
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This Colorado library lets patrons check out packets of seeds
Borrowers can't exactly grow seeds and return the exact same ones, but this library in Colorado has figured out a way around that fact of life.
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Barriers to Distributed Renewable Energy [slideshow]
The following presentation by ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell examines the five major barriers to the expansion of community-based and conventional distributed renewable energy. The barriers range from the challenge of raising capital to forming a legal structure that allows for local ownership and for access to tax incentives. It also examines the uphill struggle against utility […]
