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Supremes’ Obamacare ruling: What me worry? Why we worry
The fate of healthcare reform will shape the fate of every other effort we're going to need to make to deal with climate change and fix our collective future.
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Rio hangover: 50,000 people rallied for the Earth Summit. Did it do any good?
We came, we saw, we spent hours and hours stuck in Rio’s mythic traffic jams. Here's what we have to show for it.
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Why Congress must investigate the wasteful Solyndra investigation
If we're investigating every non-fruitful use of taxpayer money, then we must at once investigate the Solyndra investigation! To the Investigateocycle!
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Two Views of Our Future
No previous civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural supports. Nor will ours. Yet economists look at the future through a different lens. Relying heavily on economic data to measure progress, they see the near 10-fold growth in the world economy since 1950 and the associated gains in living standards as the crowning […]
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Hope you enjoyed those two years without drilling on Alaska’s North Slope
Interior Secretary Salazar announced plans to allow exploration in one of America's most remote areas. If you can't see spills, do they happen?
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Why we can’t have better flood insurance yet: Abortions
Remember a long time ago (yesterday) when we were optimistic that Congress would act on flood insurance updates? We shouldn't have been.
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Good news about fossil fuels! Related: Bad news about fossil fuels!
You will basically be rewarded for not reading this post to the end.
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200 naked Germans buying groceries
When a German store offered $276 in free groceries to anyone willing to shop naked, 250 brave souls dropped trou.
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Dear god, this insane old nature show is amazing
Man, you know when you’re eating lunch at a rest stop and you get up to follow a raccoon, and he goes through this doorway standing in the middle of nowhere, and then BOOM! Eye of Horus! and then the door disappears and a batty old lady shows up to tell you about seagulls and […]
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All oil is foreign
…originally posted at GRIP… When the political class focuses on the perils of fossil fuel dependence, they almost always use the word “foreign” before “oil”. This is redundant. Oil is inherently foreign. All of it. Oil is foreign to democracy. In an election cycle flooded by unrestricted political money, oil money stands out as the […]
