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Car-centric neighborhoods linked to childhood obesity, finger-wagging
It should come as no surprise that children who live in neighborhoods that aren't walkable, lack playgrounds, and are full of fast food joints are twice as likely to be obese as kids in pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods with access to healthy foods.
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GOP’s worst nightmare: Green Muslims
The Quran is full of “lessons about water conservation, avoiding the wasteful consumption of resources, proper land use, stewardship of trees, and compassion for animals and birds,” reports John Wihbey at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. This can mean only one thing: The entire environmental movement has aligned itself with our […]
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Karl Rove’s super PAC attacks Obama for preventing oil spills
Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove’s super PAC, is spending $1.7 million in six swing states to attack Obama’s energy policy. Here’s what Rove wants swing voters to think about Obama: We’re not really sure that it’s the best political strategy to remind voters that the Bush administration existed at all, let alone that it passed policies […]
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Your new offshore energy source: Floating algae farms
Forget offshore oil drilling. NASA’s working on a project that would generate clean, renewable offshore energy, by growing algae in floating plastic bags. These floating algae farms would take in wastewater from treatment plants. For algae, wastewater is like the nectar of the gods: The ammonia and phosphates act as a fertilizer. So the algae […]
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Why going green during a recession actually creates jobs
Economists have long known something that politicians apparently do not: If you need to impose expensive environmental regulations, there’s no better time than during a recession.
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Critical List: Earthquake off the coast of Indonesia; Tennessee anti-climate teaching bill now a law
A look at the news of the day.
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Antibiotics in your meat? The ethanol industry might be partly to blame
Many farmers feed livestock spent grain from the ethanol process in order to lower feed costs. New research confirms what some have long suspected: Those byproducts contain antibiotics from the ethanol distilling process.
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‘I withdraw’: A talk with climate defeatist Paul Kingsnorth
Longtime environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth argues that we've so thoroughly screwed up the planet that further small wins are pointless.
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Shocker: Conservative governor believes there’s a problem with the climate
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich called for action on climate change, saying he was “all for” developing clean energy. (Too bad he's still all for fossil fuels, too.)
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Get your subterranean doomsday condo — while supplies last!
Where will you go when The End comes? Well, if you’ve got enough cash, you can go live in an old missile silo and wait for the climate crisis to blow over. Then again, cave dwelling might not be all that it’s cracked up to be.
