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Walmart wants to be sustainable? It should start with its labor force
Walmart is expanding its "Sustainability Index" to make its products greener. But it should start with its labor force: Workers are planning a big "Black Friday" strike.
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Awesome Scottish guy dresses up as giraffe and does righteous stuff
A Scottish dude dresses up as a giraffe and does nice stuff for people. It sounds weird, but it also sounds kind of like a nice way to spend your time.
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This octopus is so tiny that it snuck into the aquarium undetected
He lived there for nearly a year, secretly snacking on the aquarium's crabs, before being discovered.
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ExxonMobil would like a carbon tax. Barack Obama would not.
No, that's not backwards.
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Major coal company agrees to stop mountaintop-removal mining
Patriot Coal has agreed to a deal to stop mountaintop-removal mining, which the company says "will result in a reduction of our environmental footprint."
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Expect more farm-fresh food in school cafeterias, thanks to $4.5 million from USDA
The Department of Agriculture is doling out grants to build connections between schools and nearby farmers.
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One big step closer to ending mountaintop removal
One of Appalachia’s biggest coal companies is getting out of the mountaintop-removal business. In a landmark announcement, Patriot Coal, one of Appalachia’s three largest mountaintop removal companies, has signed a settlement agreement with the Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy committing to end its practice of large-scale surface mining in […]
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The latest dirty player in the Petraeus scandal: Coal
Coal has only a bit, bit, bit part -- but you shouldn't be surprised it turned up.
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People obsessed with proving yetis exist find yeti fur in a cave
Whatever. We'll believe it when we see a real yeti.
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Google’s clean energy investments near $1 billion
This week, Google announced that it’s putting $75 million into an Iowa wind farm, making for a total of $990 million invested in clean energy.
