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Fixies to the people! Building a business on no-frills bikes
Here's the formula: Take a bike, boil it down to the basics -- frame, wheels, pedals, seat, handlebars. Offer it online, cheap. Then stand back and watch people snatch them up.
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Santorum vs. Romney: The climate is screwed either way
Rick Santorum is less green than Mitt Romney, and nuttier on global warming. But both would promote dirty energy and neglect climate action.
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Confused with a chance of flip-flop: Mitt Romney’s views on climate and energy
Where does Mitt Romney stand on climate change and energy issues? Brace yourself: He doesn’t have that flip-flopper reputation for nothing.
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Former pipeline inspector calls Keystone XL a potential ‘disaster’
A whistleblower claims that TransCanada has a track record of undercutting quality at the expense of the environment.
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Federal tax credits may handcuff clean energy development
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Clean energy advocates should cast aside their worries about increasing Republican scrutiny of energy subsidies. The clean energy industry’s foolish reliance on tax incentives has already handcuffed its expansion. Unlike the leading nations in the clean […]
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20 inches to disaster: U.S. coasts unprepared for higher seas
The lead author of a study on sea-level rise talks about its consequences for coastal towns. Even under conservative estimates, they're not pretty.
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Climate change got even less media coverage than last year
Wait a minute, aren't liberals supposed to control the media? Well they're not doing their jobs, then, because climate change has been sliding slowly off the radar at major newspapers and magazines. That graph above shows coverage on a steady down slope since 2007, with a bump in 2009 because it's hard to slaver about "Climategate" without mentioning climate change.
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Is your all-you-can-eat shrimp killing the mangroves?
Kennedy Warne, author of Let Them Eat Shrimp, discusses the connection between shrimp farming and the disappearance of some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth.
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Yeah, looks like fracking caused Ohio quakes
The Youngstown, Ohio area has had 11 minor earthquakes since last March, and according to seismologist John Armbruster of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, you can blame those rumbles on fracking. A fracking wastewater disposal well has been identified as the source of the quakes -- extraction companies inject the briny wastewater into the well, and the pressure from that injection ripples outwards, Armbruster says. The injection well that caused the Youngstown quakes has been shut down, but the area can still look forward to another year of uncharacteristic seismic activity.
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Rick Perry advocates solution to climate problem he doesn’t believe in
Of all the GOP candidates, Rick Perry has been perhaps the most fervently dismissive of the reality of human-caused climate change. So why does his energy plan include a provision for "clean coal" technology, which is used to capture carbon dioxide and pump it underground?
