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Native American farmers share their stories [VIDEO]
On their way across North Carolina, Perennial Plate stopped to chat with some Native American farmers trying to change the food and work situation in their communities.
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U.S. government downgrades projections for coal. Again.
Coal generation keeps falling faster than government predictions, which don't even account for other factors affecting its decline. Could the reign of coal finally be over?
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Newt Gingrich wants to colonize the moon
Newt Gingrich is gunning to become our first nerd president, and obviously a nerd president’s first order of business is securing voting rights for the moon. (Maybe right after knighting George Lucas.) Gingrich wants to establish a “permanent base on the moon” by the end of his first term, and once it has 13,000 people […]
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Study explains why it’s useless to argue with climate deniers
Apparently the logic is something like "It's not about whether my theory is right but what they are telling us is definitely wrong."
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Sporty little MIT ‘city car’ is cute as an animal-themed butt plug
MIT’s 1,609-pound, all-electric wheeled pod thingy is actually going to be produced and sold, so we thought it could use a marketing campaign. Also, the whole web is kind of having a holiday right now, and we wanted to throw our party hats in the ring.
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32 million reasons to cheer new school lunch rules
They may not be perfect, but the new school meal standards will bring more whole grains and fruits and vegetables into the nation's schools.
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Clean energy is a wedge issue that favors Democrats
Overwhelming majorities of Americans support clean energy. The issue is an electoral winner for Democrats if they quit playing defense and go on the attack.
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Oklahoma makes bold move to not eat human fetuses
Apparently the new hotness among Republicans is legislating against things that don't exist.
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Study: News coverage of Keystone XL slanted toward pipeline proponents
During the debate so far over Keystone XL, the media have favored pipeline proponents, according to a new study from Media Matters. Broadcast, cable, and print news stories all featured more people who supported the pipeline than who opposed it. Of guests on broadcast outlets, 79 percent supported Keystone XL; only 7 percent opposed it.
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Critical List: Big trees suffer more from deforestation; Japan’s version of Al Gore
Deforestation is disproportionately killing off the world’s largest trees. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif., a.k.a. the Mustache of Justice) wants to subpoena Koch Industries executives to force them to testify about the company’s connection to Keystone XL. The National Academy of Sciences wants to find out more about nanomaterials and their effects on humans, since the […]
