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Freaky food sculptures will make you think twice about lunch meat
Artist Dmitry Tsykalov does some freaky things with meat. If you’re unlucky, his anatomical sculptures will make you feel pretty weird about eating things like lunch meat, shrimp, hot dogs, or spaghetti and meat balls. If you’re lucky, they’ll just make you feel weird about eating heads and feet. Lest you think you’ll be safe […]
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Our Challenge to TVA: Will You Live Up to Your Values and Save Money and Lives with Energy Efficiency?
This week, the Sierra Club presented a new report to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board of directors that charts a course for TVA to a clean energy future. The report, prepared by Synapse Energy Economics and commissioned by the Sierra Club, reveals that TVA can lower ratepayer bills every month for decades and clean […]
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Offshore Wind Development Picking Up Pace
By J. Matthew Roney Wind power is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower, with 238,000 megawatts of capacity installed at the start of 2012. Thus far, almost all of this wind power has been tapped on land; worldwide just 4,600 megawatts of offshore wind farms were operating as of mid-2012. Offshore wind […]
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The Ocean Health Index will let us measure how horrible we are over time
The global rating of 60 out of 100 barely scratches the surface on the depth of information contained in this new evaluation tool.
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This video about GMOs is like watching your dad rap
If you’re against GMOs, but you don’t want to have to go through your full spiel every time you get in an argument, good news: You can now just subject your interlocutors to the equivalent of an 8th-grade biology teacher trying to get down verbally with the youth.
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For some reason, this lady is mad about Enbridge cutting down her trees without permission
Canada-based Enbridge illegally chopped down about 50 trees to make way for a tar-sands pipeline -- a replacement for the pipeline that caused the largest on-shore oil spill in U.S. history two years ago.
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LEGO Brooklyn is just as cool as the real thing and has fewer obnoxious residents
Jonathan Lopes' 400-square-foot replica is accurate down to minute details and features landmarks like the Fairway in Red Hook, Fire Engine House 226, and the A train.
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Former Twitter CEO’s dream home is SF neighborhood nightmare
Evan Williams wants to build a net zero energy home in a historic San Francisco neighborhood. Who could possibly object to an internet entrepreneur using his hard-earned cash to build an eco-friendly house?
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Next-level sh!t: Bill Gates has seen the future, and it is craptacular
Bill and Melinda Gates host the Super Bowl for the toilet of the future, inspiring some seriously space-age concraptions.
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Swimming in seafood ratings — but what’s the real impact?
Seafood rating systems to guide consumer choices are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether we should give them credit for rebounding fish populations.
