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Help build New York’s first underground park
The Low Line, an underground urban paradise on the Lower East Side, is soliciting funds through Kickstarter, which means that you can be part of the development of the city’s first underground community green space/zombie fortress.
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Critical List: Lucy Lawless occupies oil ship; Maine fisherman catches child-sized lobster
Lucy Lawless, best known for her role as Xena, Warrior Princess, teamed up with Greenpeace to occupy an oil drilling ship. The panel on Morning Joe posited that environmentalists think the alternative to fossil fuel is granola. (In case this wasn’t clear already, everyone on Morning Joe is a jerk.) A Pew Research Center poll […]
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Will organic free trade really do a world of good?
We're all for trading organic food with the European Union, but let's not forget about food miles.
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Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs
New science draws a straight line between antibiotic-resistant staph and the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Now, if only our lawmakers would do something with the information.
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Fallen fruit
Yes, foraging is hip, but -- according to the latest installment of the Lexicon -- it's also very practical.
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River rising: Water helps revive a washed-up industrial town
Yonkers, N.Y., needed a facelift, and it found one, beneath the city streets, in a river that hadn’t been seen in living memory.
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Obama mocks drill, baby, drill: ‘The American people aren’t stupid’
In a speech on energy policy, Obama mocked the GOP's drill-baby-drill response to rising gas prices.
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Does Santorum think the pope is a ‘radical environmentalist’?
Rick Santorum presents himself as a devout Catholic, but on the issue of climate change, he strays far from the pope's teachings.
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Can carnivorous farmed fish go vegetarian?
The aquaculture industry has long fed wild fish to farmed fish, putting a huge dent in ocean ecosystems. Will new vegetarian feed improve aquaculture's footprint, or just muddy the waters?
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U.S. gangs up with Saudi Arabia to crush European climate initiative
All the world's countries love to talk piously about the need to address climate change. What happens if someone goes beyond talk to action? If the E.U.'s aviation program is any indication, it ain't pretty.
