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After the Rio Earth Summit: Will agriculture really get any greener?
Global food production may have inched toward becoming more sustainable at last week's Earth Summit. Or not. We probably won't know either way until the next Summit.
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Appeals court to EPA: You just keep on regulating greenhouse gas
Good news. And now, we assume, the chastened polluting industries will quietly upgrade their systems to reduce greenhouse emissions, and we'll never speak of this again.
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H & Ahem: Cheap clothing hurts the planet, the economy, and your style
We are drowning in cheap clothes, says Elizabeth Cline. The author talks about the fashion industry's big problems -- and why the solutions are more fun than a trip to Forever 21, anyway.
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Cheeseburger-crust pizza is not even recognizable as pizza
We need to think of a new name for the monstrosities that pizza companies are coming up with, because, really, this is NOT pizza: Pizza Hut is selling this mutant creature in the Middle East, where, if the ad is to be believed, ordering a hamburger at a pizza place is a GIANT AND HILARIOUS […]
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Rising sea levels: It’s worse than you think
New research published in Nature Climate Change offers updated, comprehensive projections of sea-level rise over the next two centuries. The news is ... not good.
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How Vancouver got its green on: A talk with Andrea Reimer
Vancouver has a plan -- many plans -- to become the "greenest city in the world" by 2020. What does that mean and how would it happen?
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Greenland is feeding endangered whale meat to tourists
Denmark wants permission for indigenous communities in Greenland (which it rules) to catch more whales for food, The Guardian reports. Problem is, an environmental group has found that the whale meat’s not actually going to feed indigenous communities. It’s going to tourists who I guess get a kick out of eating something endangered: The [Whale […]
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How’s the weather, America? June 26, 2012 edition
What do you do when there are too many awful weather-related happenings across the country? You make a map.
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We Need a Green New Deal Now
All indications are that Dr. Jill Stein will be the U.S. Green Party’s candidate for President when it has a national convention in Baltimore in a few weeks. She has gathered a healthy majority of delegates pledged to vote for her as a result of Green Party state primaries and conventions. It is a good […]
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Clear Channel chops down tree to improve view of billboard
Looking at a tree relaxes people. Looking at a billboard makes them wish they were looking at anything else — but it makes money for somebody! So it totally makes sense that Cleveland let Clear Channel chop down a 30-year-old linden tree in order to provide clear sight lines to a billboard advertising some local […]
