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Umbra’s second helpings: How to recycle beer bottles with limes
Can you recycle beer bottles with lime wedges? Umbra tosses back an answer.
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Canadian high-schooler makes her own graduation dress out of old homework
Kara Koskowich is going to take the world by storm. Girlfriend just graduated from high school in Canada, and instead of shelling out for a fancy graduation dress, she decided to reuse old homework and post-it notes to make one herself: The dress took almost 75 pieces of paper to make, Koskowich said. She started […]
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Crowdsourced solar gets a nod — and a check — from the Department of Energy
Oakland's Solar Mosaic received a grant of up to $2 million to bring it's crowdsourced solar installation model to scale.
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Got food scraps? Hail a ‘Compost Cab’
This Washington, D.C.-based service picks up urban food waste and delivers it to urban farms for composting.
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U.S. market for solar likely to double this year
Cheap prices and incentives from the federal and state governments lead to an additional 3.3 gigawatts of solar power this year.
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Twitter founders are investing in vegan meat
Twitter cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have some proven expertise in determining the next big thing. So it's notable that they're investing in a vegan meat company called Beyond Meat, whose products are said to be the most freakily convincing fake meat yet.
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Me, on the radio, talking about military ‘greening’
I was on Sea Change Radio last week to talk about the military’s efforts to use less oil — and Republicans’ efforts to stop them. It’s a long bit, nice and meaty at about a half hour, so put it on your iPod for your next bus ride. Here it is:
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Here are some of the death threats sent to a climate scientist
Phil Jones became a public figure when his emails on climate science were stolen and released. As a result, he received a number of threats on his life.
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Why the power industry is running away from coal
The market for coal is drying up nearly as rapidly as the seams in Appalachia.
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Tile your home with recycled money
Pennies are so useless as legal tender that there's genuine debate about whether we should even keep them around. You could dump them in the Coinstar machine ... or you could use them to make an awesome, cost-effective copper flooring.
