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Universities try to out-green each other in bid for NYC science campus
New York City is fielding proposals from universities to build a new science and technology campus on Roosevelt Island, and the competition is showing how desirable green buildings are becoming. The two front-runners, Cornell and Stanford, are falling over themselves to offer all manner of green features in their plans: acres of solar panels, geothermal […]
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Critical List: Earthquake strikes Turkey; ‘Environmental concierge’ exists
More than 200 people died in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Turkey.
California finished its cap-and-trade plan with minimal drama. Here's how they did it.
If you are rich and worried about your environmental footprint, you can hire a whole other human being to screw in LED lightbulbs for you, run your errands on a bike, and buy cleaning products with fewer chemicals in them.
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Quick and dirty: Congress may rewrite the Farm Bill in two weeks
Brace yourselves, food advocates: The congressional supercommittee charged with reducing the national debt considers making cuts to the nation's most important food and farming legislation.
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Harvesting change: Dispatches from a TEDx gathering on farmworkers [VIDEO]
Last week's TEDx conference brought together some of the sharpest, most creative minds to address the problem of farm labor. See the highlights here.
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Ask Umbra: Should I wash out my zip-lock bags?
Don't lose sleep over plastics and food. Instead of worrying about how to handle your baggies and bins, purge plastic from your kitchen.
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Big wind farms cost more than small ones
You'd think the biggest wind power projects would be the most cost effective. But that's not the case.
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Who you gonna call? GrowthBusters! [VIDEO]
The new documentary "GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth" explores why our economy and footprint and population can't keep on expanding forever.
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Pollution is not the secret to job creation
Economic analysis shows that contrary to GOP hype, environmental regulation does not lead to significant job loss.
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Is there room for the environment at the Occupation?
Solar power comes belatedly to Occupy Wall Street and D.C., but are people making the connection between economic hardships and the health of Earth?
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Congress Ignores the People When Dismantling Public Health, Environmental Protections
As a mom, I often take for granted that the water I put in my daughters sippy cup is safe, and the air that she breathes when she’s playing outside is cleaner than it was when I was a child. This is no accident – it’s the result of decades of enforcement of basic health […]
