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Trainspotting: Transit vote could bring new life to a gritty city
This summer, voters in metro Atlanta will decide whether to plow $8.5 billion into regional transportation infrastructure. The bigger question: Is a suburban nation willing to reinvest in its cities?
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Ask Umbra: Should I buy my drinks in bottles or boxes?
A reader wonders about the greenest beverage packaging. Umbra sorts through the materials.
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Air play: Could we capture carbon from the atmosphere?
A start-up company thinks sucking carbon from the air (instead of from coal plant smokestacks) could be a feasible way to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Mr. Daisey and the fact factory
Mike Daisey's lies about Apple on This American Life don't only hurt him, they hurt the workers he aimed to help -- and teach us a big lesson about truth and trust.
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Touring Joseph’s fields and cooking South Carolina gold [VIDEOS]
The Perennial Plate crew takes a tour of a South Carolina farm and makes a meal with chef Sean Brock.
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Off-ramp: How demolishing freeways is reviving American cities
Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist talks about why it makes economic sense to tear out urban expressways, and why a little gridlock might actually be a good thing.
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Earth out of balance: The challenge of controlling corporate greed
Author and man-about-the-planet David Rothkopf was once a champion of free trade and the magic of the free market. Now, he says we’ve gone too far.
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Heartland Institute tried to steal documents from Greenpeace
Okay, we don’t want to beat a dead horse here — like, say, the way certain organizations kept harping on the Climategate non-scandal — but allow us just one more instance of pointing and laughing at the Heartland Institute’s gross hypocrisy. When we last left our intrepidly two-faced heroes, they were wounded to the core […]
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Get the lead out: Have we already forgotten this lesson?
The new federal budget decimates funding for lead-poisoning prevention programs, even though we know they're wildly successful and hugely cost-effective.
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Graduation caps and gowns made from recycled bottles
Seniors at Michigan Tech will be sporting the finest in recycled-bottle couture at their commencement next month. The school’s graduation caps and gowns just look like the standard Hogwarts-uniform deal, but they’re actually made of recycled water bottles.
