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Critical List: The return of the loan-guarantee program; Texas least prepared for climate change
The Energy Department is reviving its loan program. (AAAH! SOLYNDRA! AAAAAAAH!…say Republicans. We’re pretty sure this will all work out fine.) Environmental groups want final rules governing coal ash and are suing the EPA to get them. Texas: not very prepared for climate change. California: doing better than everyone else, at least. In China, drought […]
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Energy for the next 20 years: my panel at the New York Academy of Sciences
Back in January, I was the moderator for a panel at the New York Academy of Sciences called “Energy for the Next 20 Years: Protecting the Environment and Meeting Our Demands.” It featured: Stewart Brand (Long Now Foundation) Joe Fargione (The Nature Conservancy) Jesse Jenkins (Breakthrough Institute) Arne Jungjohann (Heinrich Boell Foundation) Jeff Opperman (The […]
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Being Green: Presidential hopeful Jill Stein aims to rebuild a broken system
The Green Party’s front-runner says she wants to get corporations out of politics, create universal health care and free higher education, and rebuild the American economy. Don’t even get her started on Ralph Nader.
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Pink deviled eggs [Recipe]
Want something a little unexpected and fun to bring to your holiday gathering this week? Try these beet-dyed eggs. But start soon, because they'll need to pickle overnight!
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Chump change: Stopping global warming is much cheaper than you think
Politicians like to claim we can't afford to take drastic climate action right now. A U.K. report debunks that myth.
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How the new NYC taxi is bike-friendly
New York City's new taxis have sliding doors, so that there's no danger that a tourist from the flyover zone will thoughtlessly door a passing cyclist when he or she hops out.
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Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic: Still rocking the vote
Nirvana's Krist Novoselic transformed from rock star to wonky election reformist. As we head into a polarized 2012 election, his championing of ranked choice voting could help give marginalized environmental issues serious political clout.
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Clean coal nonsense: New industry ad claims ‘real environmental progress’
The coal industry has rolled out a new ad trying desperately to paint itself as “clean."
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If everyone used as much energy as Americans, we’d run out of oil in 9 years
Unlike gluttonous American industry, Europe's most profitable companies plan to make even more money by getting ahead of this whole peak oil trend.
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Michigan threatens small farms by calling heritage pigs ‘invasive’
The state recently classified some heritage pigs as "invasive species," which endangers the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers -- and Big Ag could have a hand in it.
