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Tech, food experts join forces to hack the meat industry
The small-but-growing alternative meat industry got a needed boost this week from a group of foodies and software programmers at the first meat hackathon.
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Department of Energy announces millions in grants to offshore wind projects
Which will no doubt prompt some opposition from conservatives.
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World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear […]
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Massive Crowds Turning Out to Oppose Coal Exports
“It’s not our job in the Northwest to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying fossil fuel industry.” That’s what a former West Virginian, who now lives in Oregon, told federal officials this week at one of the many recent blockbuster public hearings on coal exports. Crowds have turned out by the thousands — literally overflowing […]
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This video of a city-sized iceberg breaking off from a glacier will blow your mind
Watch the largest glacier breakup ever filmed.
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This gingerbread Brooklyn is way too amazing to eat
Think how many people could live in/eat this dense, walkable, edible neighborhood!
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As deadline for saving wind industry nears, wind advocates fold
With a key tax credit for the wind industry due to expire on Dec. 31, the main wind advocacy group says a phaseout of the credit would be OK.
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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U.K. reapproves fracking, because it’s jealous of how cool we are
After halting fracking due to concerns over earthquakes, the U.K. has once again fallen victim to American soft power.
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Watch a baby hippo learn how to eat
Aw, look at her trying to figure out why hippo food pellets look so unappetizing!
