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More on ramping down baseload power and ramping up storage
Baseload is going the way of VHS. We must shed our aversion to innovation so we can start actually planning for the energy system we want.
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George Bush’s hometown is running out of water, thanks to climate change
The president whose State Department thanked Exxon executives for their "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy is watching the town in which he grew up squirm in the grip of Texas' epic, climate change-enhanced drought.
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Black people get asthma so everybody else can get cheap power
African Americans are more likely than whites to live near coal-fired power plants -- and, not coincidentally, they have a 35 percent higher rate of asthma.
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Starbucks strawberry Frappuccino dyed with crushed insects
Here's a Starbucks order to try out: a Strawberries & Creme Frappuccino with soy milk and a shot of crushed parasitic insects.
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How successful cities are like marijuana
In comparison to other crops, the relatively high value of pot is a good metaphor for a city's decision to invest in its downtown versus sprawl, says Joe Minicozzi, the new projects director at Public Interest Projects.
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Maple syrup-pocalypse arrives 20 years early
Scientists have been saying that maple syrup production could be devastated in 20 to 30 years, but this season's warm temperatures are so extreme that we're getting a taste of that state of the climate now.
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Critical List: Pesticides are killing bees; North Sea gas leak only sort of dangerous
A look at the news of the day.
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For New Yorkers, a farmers market on your phone
An experimental online marketplace hopes to fill two gaping holes in the community-supported agriculture business model: choice and convenience.
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Climate change is already harshing the weather
The bizarre weather we've seen over the past year is just becoming the new normal, thanks to climate change. So why aren't we freaking the f*ck out yet?
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The Solyndra sideshow peters out
After more than a year of breathlessly reporting on the Solyndra "scandal," Politico has finally admitted that there was never a scandal.
