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What your hamburger really costs [VIDEO]
If we wanted to pay for the climate impact, water use, and healthcare costs behind our burgers, this video says we'd have to add $1.50 to the price of every one we ate.
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New Report Follows Money Trail Behind Attacks on Clean Energy
Every election season, more and more money is poured into campaigns. But there is a surprising new twist this year – fossil fuel interests are actually spending money to directly attack clean energy like wind and solar, as we reveal in a new report we are releasing today, “Clean Energy Under Siege” (PDF). Over the […]
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Behind the scenes at a big mountaintop-mining protest: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Over the weekend, protesters shut down part of a huge mountaintop-removal coal mining operation in West Virginia. One of the activists spills the dirt about police intimidation, abuse from local miners, and snubs from fellow protesters.
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Here is a week-old hedgehog having a dream
Oh, nothing much, just a 7-day-old hedgehog doing little kicks and squeaks in his sleep like he was a puppy dog.
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Why India went dark: Too little power, too little water, too much heat
An overview of some of the better analysis of how and why one-tenth of humanity lost power this week.
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The best rant about healthy eating that you will ever read
Until recently, we had not come across Erica Strauss or her work. But we wish we had. We wish we knew her. In fact, we wish she would have dinner with us.
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Japan bails out company behind Fukushima meltdown
A trillion yen bailout will allow the power company to clean up its mess. We're sure the Japanese people are thrilled about it.
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Watch a guy go full Double Rainbow over a vintage train
Well, I learned something new today: Extremely avid railroad fans are called “foamers,” because they foam at the mouth when they see exciting trains. And this guy definitely needs a drool rag, and possibly a Xanax and a long time-out in a rehab center. If Trainspotting were actually about trainspotting, this is basically what you’d […]
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Disney’s building France an eco-retreat and we’re jealous
America and Europe may both be full of privileged white people, but nobody would mistake them for being culturally interchangeable. Case in point: In America, Disney makes amusement parks that are better than real life and that allow us to stuff ourselves silly while hanging out with plush versions of our imaginary cartoon friends. In […]
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These trees on wheels double as wifi hotspots
It doesn’t seem fair that car-owning people can use parking spots (or rent them at extremely low rates) to store their cars, but the car-free don’t get to use them to store our stuff. We have 50 cents, and we live here too! Fortunately, Milanese designer Matteo Cibic has found an easy way for the […]
