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Earthquake! Quick, everyone into the $6,000 earthquake-proof bed!
When there is an earthquake most people run to a table or a doorway to ride it out. But if the people at Shinto Industries have their way, the new go-to destination for seismic activity will be this bed, made out of aged cedar and reinforced with special metal fittings.
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Hapless Shell inches forward with drilling in the Arctic
With clearance from the Department of the Interior to proceed, Shell will shortly start digging underwater holes in the Earth.
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Curtain rises on California’s planned carbon market
From big emitters to tomato tinners, over 100 California businesses got their first taste of cap-and-trade. Here's how it works.
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Umbra’s second helpings: The most sustainable forms of birth control
Birth control shouldn't be controversial. But could it be greener? Umbra pulls out an answer.
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Free-market hypocrisy: Why do we hold renewables to different standards?
Calls for a "free-market" approach to energy ignore the fact that recent incentives for renewables are no different than the perks fossil fuels and nuclear energy have enjoyed for decades.
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Romney treats climate as a punchline
In the final speech of the party's convention, the Republican candidate mocks President Obama's pledge to deal with climate change.
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Energy and environment in the GOP platform: They said what?
We read the whole 62-page Republican platform so you don't have to. Here are the good bits, by which we mean the bad bits.
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These are basically treasure maps for renewable energy
Detailed maps of the best places for solar, wind, and geothermal are basically guaranteed to make you rich.
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Obama calls for massive push on industrial efficiency
The president set a goal of 40 gigawatts of combined heat and power (which we explain) in industrial facilities by 2020.
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Mr. Rand Paul wants you to be nice to Mr. Exxon Mobil
Mr. Gristmill scoffs, kicks sand in his face.
