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Fumigation nation: Battling pesticide use in California
In this dispatch from the nation's produce capital, we find school teachers, farmers, activists, and scientists working together to combat methyl iodide, and seeking out alternatives to all toxic fumigants.
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Solar panels under power lines could be a major electricity source
Moving toward renewable energy won't require massive solar projects. We could get 20 percent of our power just from solar panels under power lines.
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Why the food movement should occupy Wall Street
Two points in the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City address the food system. While barely scratching the surface, the protesters have provided an important opening for the food movement. Will we seize it?
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Talking to my son about sex and sustainability
"Are we going to talk about sex again?!" screamed my 12-year-old son. I had just sat down with him to have one of our father-son talks.
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Is a centralized climate solution still possible? And more from my chat with Andy Revkin
David Roberts had an interesting chat with Andy Revkin of The New York Times on climate policy and the prospects for a sustainable future.
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NYT asks where climate change went, ignores own failed coverage
The New York Times asks why climate change is fading from the U.S. agenda, without addressing the paper's own complicity in collapsing coverage.
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MSM on Solyndra: It's not a scandal
Even as the Solyndra affair is being cast as a scandal, lots of writers and newspapers are saying the same thing: No wrongdoing has been uncovered.
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Japanese companies turn bras into fuel
The whole "feminists burn their bras" thing is kind of a canard, but now you can do it for real and for an equally good cause. Japanese lingerie manufacturers are collecting bras and recycling them into solid fuel.
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Is this the most anti-environment House of Representatives ever?
At the end of last week, the House voted to let states deal with coal ash, a toxic byproduct of mining, the same way they deal with municipal garbage. The Associated Press called this:
the latest [vote] of several passed by the Republican-controlled House that would shift authority from the Environmental Protection Agency and reduce regulations Republicans say are burdensome, hamper economic growth and cost jobs.
That doesn't even begin to do justice to the attacks that Congress has mounted on the environment and the people who live in it (oh, hey, that's us!). Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman's Energy and Commerce committee has counted 168 votes that the House has taken so far this Congress that "undermine the protection of the environment."
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Giant Bicycles strikes back at stupid GM ad
GM's ad about how embarrassing it is to ride a bike? Dumb. Giant Bicycles' parody response? Classy! Also pretty amusing.
