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The U.S. keeps passing more and more renewable energy milestones
More renewables in California, more solar at Walmart, and more wind power everywhere.
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In Brooklyn, even the factories are artisanal
Manufacturing is back in Brooklyn! But only in a Renaissance Florence sort of way, where skilled artisans produce craft-objects for wealthy patrons with finicky desires. The New York Times reports that there are, against all odds, still factories in Brooklyn, although they’ve morphed from behemoth plants stamping out assembly-line goods to smaller shops: This building, […]
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The federal government wants to pay for your electric bicycle
Electric bikes and electric motorcycles are awesome. They help you go up hills. They help you reach your destination with a minimum of armpit sweat. And they do this while dumping less carbon into atmosphere than their gas-powered equivalents. (Yes, there is such thing as a gas-powered bicycle. Yah. It’s stupid. We know.) The only […]
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Smart Minnesota public utility smartly votes to shutter coal plant
The increasing cost of coal -- both as a fuel source and as a pollutant -- prompts Rochester's public utility to shut its plant.
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Watch a teenager’s stunning video of the Manila floods
Farbod Kasiri took this video out the window of his 31st-floor apartment, to show his Canadian friend why classes are canceled in the Philippines. Featured: streets like rivers, submerged buses, and cars with only their roofs emerging from the water.
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Typhoons and flooding soak Philippines and China
The worst flooding in years hits Manila, while China is battered by a series of typhoons.
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Ted Cruz, Tea Party’s new Latino hero, is a bit loony on green issues
For a guy being touted as an intellectual, Cruz has some out-there views on toilets and Agenda 21, and some confused views on Keystone and cap-and-trade.
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Here’s a tiny gorilla getting a checkup — and here’s what he looks like now
This picture of a baby gorilla named Yakini is from 1999, but it’s been going around again, because the internet’s love is eternal. At least, the internet’s love for a baby gorilla going “hoo DOGGIE that stethoscope is cold!”
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The hunger wars in our future: Heat, drought, rising food costs, and global unrest
The physical effects of climate change will prove catastrophic. But the social effects -- food riots, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort -- could prove even more disruptive and deadly.
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Drought: Bad for the Gulf ‘dead zone’ after all?
The nation's drought-withered corn fields aren't taking in anywhere near the amount of nitrogen fertilizer that farmers put on the ground last spring. And the excess could show up in the Gulf of Mexico.
