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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.
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Jobs taking the last bus out of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's decision to nearly halve its bus routes means at least one company won't expand its hiring. The real damage, though, may be long-term.
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BP’s Glenn Beck strategy for maybe saving a few million dollars
Two scientists hired by the petroleum giant turn over personal emails, replaying an all-too-common scenario in a data-rich world.
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Can climate hawks campaign for something good instead of against something bad?
The climate activist movement has plenty of bright-green, positive rhetoric, but it has struggled with how to put its weight behind positive campaigns. It's no easy task, but it's necessary.
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U.N. report: ‘Oh, man.’
This is not a direct quote. But we hope you like water pollution and hot, unbreathable air.
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The food movement’s final frontier: Taking care of workers
A comprehensive new report looks at the people behind our food chain and finds low wages, little chance for advancement, and often deplorable working conditions.
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Horseshoe crabs have weird, bright blue blood
Horseshoe crabs have bright blue blood. They are like aliens. (Does this one not look like a dead alien?) Nature, you are weird. Robert Krulwich explains why the crabs’ blood is so beautifully blue: Their blood kind of sloshes around in their bodies carrying oxygen to various organs, as our blood does. Our blood is […]
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Read a prophetic Ray Bradbury story about car culture
Indelibly important science fiction author and giant of my childhood Ray Bradbury, who died last night, would probably never have described himself as writing about environmentalism — “A lot of lousy novels come from people who want to do good,” he said in an interview. But he did write about the relationship between humans and […]
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GZA and Neil deGrasse Tyson team up on a hip-hop record about science
I do not know much about writing rap lyrics, but I’m guessing that most rappers do not meet with physicists and cosmologists from MIT and Cornell before sitting down to write. But that’s exactly what Wu-Tang Clan founding member GZA did during the creation of his new album, Dark Matter — a project the rapper […]
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How to make a fold-out window garden
This garden design gives you three times as much growing space as a window box.
