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Giant wind turbine on wheels can be set up anywhere you want
It's sort of like a Transformer wind turbine.
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This teen built his own tiny home so he could move out of his parents’ house
Austin Hay, 17, has finished building a 130-square-foot house that will keep him from needing a mortgage when he's not, you know, 17.
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Deadly 2011 Spanish earthquake linked to groundwater drilling
But don't worry. We're sure fracking is perfectly safe.
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These guerrilla cartographers are mapping the edible world
From charting food deserts to plotting the ingredients of beer, gastro-nerds will swoon over the maps in "Food: An Atlas."
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Building up, not selling out: Can denser cities save family farms?
Innovative programs promote smart growth by shifting development rights from rural land to the urban core, limiting sprawl and increasing inner-city density at the same time.
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Ask Umbra: Are these sorority sisters beyond help?
A reader asks if the Greeks can be convinced to recycle. Umbra says listen up, Kappa Kappa Gamma, it’s time to get with the earth lovin’ programma.
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2012 or 1988?
1988. That was the year of James Hansen’s now famous congressional testimony on climate change. It was also the first year that climate change came up in the presidential debate cycle. Chicago Tribune reporter Jon Margolis asked Vice Presidential candidates Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle about climate change and fossil fuels. Both agreed that it […]
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The human cost of coal, in photos
Steve Hawk and Ami Vitale traveled to the mountains of West Virginia, small-town Michigan, and a reservation in Nevada to match human faces and stories with the cost of coal.
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As the climate warms, New England farming starts to look more like the mid-Atlantic
The Slow Ride crew visits a farm in New Hampshire to talk climate -- and test out the corn maze.
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Good news for lovers of non-organic peanuts
There's a bumper peanut crop this year, meaning low prices -- for conventional peanuts, that is. Meanwhile, organic peanuts languish in recall.
