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Quiz: How many climate deniers could you fight off?
If climate-change skeptics came at you with slime, mud, and threatening letters, how many could you beat up? Take our quiz to find out.
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Philadelphia’s Katherine Gajewski is turning a gritty city green
Philadelphia's sustainability director talks about overflowing sewers, making climate change a central part of city government, and her city’s lovely bones.
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John Kerry on why we need fossil fuels (for now) and climate action (for real!)
John Kerry talks to Grist about the difficulty of climate solutions, the unfortunate necessity of oil and gas, and the vacuity of Mitt Romney.
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Five lessons on activism from a coal miner’s daughter
Teri Blanton has become a leader in the fight against mountaintop-removal coal mining. Along the way, she's learned lessons that any activist could benefit from.
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The latest GMO study raises more questions than it answers
Recent science linking tumors in rats to GMOs and pesticide exposure has come under fire from the scientific community. Isn't that all the more reason to study the issue further?
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A man, a plan, a pipeline: The tycoon guiding Romney on energy
Reuters takes a detailed look at the politics of Harold Hamm -- meaning the politics of Mitt Romney.
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Spreading the loaf: A bakers cooperative with a vision for change
Bread Uprising envisions a food system in which everyone is entitled to bread, whether or not they have money to offer in exchange.
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Romney opposes key support to wind industry, opposes Obama not helping wind industry
The presidential candidate strongly opposes a wind tax credit as well as the layoffs that result from expiration of that wind tax credit.
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Study on GMO corn requires a non-GMO grain of salt
Yes, the study showing negative health effects in rats that ate GMO corn sounds frightening. But that's why you might want to be skeptical.
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Americans are eating so many friggin’ avocados these days
Consumption of avocados went up 30 percent in the first half of 2012. What's up with all the avocados, y'all?
