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Protest theater troupe flash-mobs British Petroleum
In response to BP's sponsorship of the Royal Shakespeare Company, activists staged a Bard-inspired protest.
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University gives ‘frackademics’ the boot
SUNY Buffalo has shuttered its on-campus, pro-fracking think tank following publication of a misleading, error-filled report.
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A sluggish start for California carbon auctions?
The first sale of emissions credits under California's cap-and-trade program raised $286 million, but officials say money's not the goal here.
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Preparing for “Cheaper than Grid” Solar Electricity
It started with off-grid locations, places where electricity was either carried in or generated on-site. Then it beat expensive diesel generators. In 2010, unsubsidized solar electricity could best on-grid retail electricity prices of major utilities in Hawaii. In the next decade, residents in metropolitan areas representing 100 million people will watch the biggest solar barrier […]
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![Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell (R) "sunbathe" on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen]()
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World superpowers are about to get a brand new coast
The broad, open ocean of the brand new North Coast has lots of governments and companies already planning for the economic and strategic possibilities.
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Acting Before It Is Too Late
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. The tide in the affairs of men and women does not remain at flood—it ebbs. Over […]
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Climate scientists are Nate Silver, radio edition
Just as Republicans chose to ignore projections that Romney would lose, many Americans are choosing to ignore dire climate projections.
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Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom
Stockpile your way to sustainable living! Haha, just kidding.
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The CIA shutters its climate change center, because who needs it?
Funding has been cut for the CIA's Center on Climate Change and National Security. Anyway, the CIA has bigger problems.
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It is better for the environment if birds do not die prematurely
But when they do die, we can usually learn something.
