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Heartland Institute’s BS ad campaign is causing it all kinds of problems
OK, I’m working on a joke, tell me if you think this works: How is the Heartland Institute like a professional burlesque dancer? It just can’t stop showing its ass! Eh? Eh? All right, maybe not, but the point is it’s been a hard year for poor Heartland, which just can’t seem to not look […]
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Ontario feed-in tariff prices drop, Germans pay much less
A version of this post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Ontario just completed a revision of their landmark feed-in tariff program and rates for renewable electricity generation and prices fell sharply: 30 percent for solar and 15 percent for wind power. This continues a trend of […]
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Weird, adorable animal spotted for the first time in over a decade
The tiger quoll is an adorable, carnivorous marsupial, sort of like an extra-cute Tasmanian devil with spots. Like most of the other weird marsupials, they’re only found in Australia, and they’ve been increasingly hard to find in the wild. In the Otway Ranges in southwestern Victoria, there hadn’t been a confirmed quoll sighting in more […]
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Don’t call me an environmentalist
The environmental movement’s approval ratings are going down the tubes, even as more Americans profess to live greener lifestyles. Here’s what’s up.
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Awesome cityscapes made from discarded textbooks
What do you do with unwanted textbooks? Chinese artist Liu Wei makes spectacular carved-book cityscapes.
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86-year-old man turns island into tortoise sanctuary
Back in 1962, Brendon Grimshaw bought Moyenne Island, in the Seychelles, for £8,000 (which at the time would have been about $22,000). He started living there in 1972, and since that time he’s been the island’s only permanent resident — aside from the 120 giant tortoises for whom Grimshaw’s island is a sanctuary. The video […]
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Upsetting photos of oil-slicked turtles from Deepwater Horizon
Back in 2010, Greenpeace filed a Freedom of Information request covering endangered species affected by the Deepwater Horizon spill. They just received a response from NOAA, and it included more than 100 photos. They're disturbing.
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Critical List: TransCanada reapplies for Keystone XL permit; Japan’s last nuclear reactor
TransCanada put in a new permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline. Japan switched off its last nuclear reactor. Fights over endangered species are about to get wild, as the Fish and Wildlife Service has to rule on protections for species that live in oil country.
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Locavore brew: Tapping into beer’s agricultural roots
What happens when small batch brewers discover the farm-to-table movement and run with it?
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Will this Farm Bill do enough for young farmers?
By the time the next Farm Bill expires in five years, 125,000 American farmers will have retired. This fact may well be the biggest threat to national food security, but you wouldn’t know it if you’ve been following this year’s Farm Bill hearings.
