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World Oceans Day: Don’t mess with them or they’ll mess with you
(They'll mess with you anway, of course.) In the news: California sets aside protected areas; Oregon has an unexpected visitor; the Gulf Coast is warned about the inevitable.
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Check out this 100-year-old electric car
Electric cars are a modern new technology, so modern and unproven that many [Republicans] would say they couldn’t possibly be plausible. Except for how they’ve actually been around since the turn of the 20th century. This photo of an electric car charging (above, click to embiggen) is from 1909, and by that point the technology […]
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Feds to farmers: Grow GMO beets or face sugar shortage
The good news: The USDA finally released an environmental impact review of genetically engineered sugar beets. The bad: Monsanto has already crowded out other seed makers.
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Honda Fit, most efficient car EVER, gets 118 MPG equivalent
In England, when you want to say that a guy or a gal is h-o-t-t HOT, you say “He/she is FIT!” And that is what we want to say about the 2013 Honda Fit EV. The Fit is FIT. F-i-t-t FIT! This car — this car! — according to the EPA, gets the fuel efficiency […]
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First-graders protest Starbucks to save local coffee shop
Back in 2011, a tragedy of epic proportions struck the East Village: Starbucks moved in. And not only did it move in, it kicked a beloved local coffee shop, The Bean, out of its flagship location. Even non-coffee drinking elementary school students were outraged, as Majorie Ingall discovered: Here we have a piece of paper […]
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500 million reasons to rethink the parking lot
All the world is a parking lot -- or a heck of a lot of it is, anyway. But according to professor Eran Ben-Joseph, these places don’t have to be wastelands.
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Thieves steal grease; slip away
A rash of grease thefts means only two things: the biofuel industry is here to stay, and The Simpsons is awfully prescient.
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‘Secret’ talks will fix budget — right after the election
But there is good news: Delaware's junior senator wants to include discussion of an intricate system for indirectly funding renewables!
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Coal down, cleantech up in electric utility survey
U.S. utilities are shifting away from coal and toward sustainability initiatives, electric vehicles, and clean technology, an annual survey of the industry found.
