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The five big forest trends of 2012
In the past year, examples abounded of forests being protected or restored on a grand scale. But those successes put the colossal failures and the corrupting forces behind them in stark relief: For too many forests, some combination of rapacious corporate greed, rising global population and consumption (particularly in Asia), local corruption, ignorant or careless […]
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Gainesville, Fla., becomes a world leader in solar power
Beating out Japan, France, and China in solar installed per capita, this small city proves you don't have to be big to go big on solar power.
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An act of dog: Why climate change is like walking Fido [VIDEO]
Climate deniers in your family? They can't resist a video illustrating the relationship between climate change and weather with a man walking his dog.
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Rick Santorum wants women to have lots of babies, whether they like it or not
Rick Santorum isn't just a climate denier -- he's a contraception denier. He believes contraception exists, but he's eying ways to deny you access to it.
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Ladies, here’s your new tough biker chick mascot
Have you been looking for a new role model for mixing biker-chick toughness with button-boots style? If you have, comics genius Kate Beaton has you covered, and if you haven't, now you know why you should have been. This badass velocipedestrienne (no, seriously, velocipedestrienne) is based on a 19th-century cartoon about "The Awful Effects of […]
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One man’s trash: Dumpster diving for breakfast [VIDEO]
Join the Perennial Plate crew as they climb into a dumpster with an experienced freegan and bring home the makings of a feast!
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Mexico City’s move: Take this dump and close it!
One of the world's largest dumps won't be belching greenhouse gases any more, thanks to Mexico City's closing of the vast Bordo Poniente Landfill.
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Take off your pants and hop on transit
D.C. is having its annual No Pants Metro Ride this Sunday, to raise awareness of … public transit? Indecency laws? People's bottoms? (Actually, according to the Facebook page, they're just trying to raise awareness of how funny it is when 400 people are not wearing pants, but let's go with "public transit.") This will easily […]
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Tsunami disaster site rehabilitated as robot farm
The Japanese government is reclaiming land flooded by the March 2011 tsunami and turning it into what Wired calls a "robot-run super farm." The Ministry of Agriculture has claimed a 600-acre site, part of thousands of acres of farmland destroyed by the tsunami and its aftereffects, for its "Dream Project" — a farm tilled by […]
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Boston Globe endorses Huntsman, cites climate and energy views
Jon Huntsman, the least crazy GOP presidential candidate, scored an endorsement from the largest newspaper in the state Mitt Romney once governed.
