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Critical List: Texas drought creating baby animal shortage; Keystone XL doc on Oscar shortlist
The Texas drought has meant fewer births of adorable baby animals. Maybe the new climate lobby can include all of the internet.
Also joining the climate fight: yuppies and freelancers. Starbucks is worried about the future of its business model, as rising temperatures threaten coffee crops.
Democrats aren't the only ones who back clean energy projects that don't end up saving the world. Orrin Hatch, for instance, backed a company trying to develop a hybrid Hummer, which collapsed under the weight of its own irony.
China wants to dominate the global wind-turbine market, as well as the solar market.
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Food Studies: Canvolution!
Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.
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The unmasking of a school lunch hero: Mrs. Q speaks
Now that her book, Fed Up with Lunch, is out, the teacher who blogged her way through a year of eating school lunch finally comes clean.
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The fashionable cyclist: Why let a little rain get you down?
Got a long, wet ride to work? You can do it, and still arrive looking snappy, writes Elly Blue.
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Peebottle Farms: Have eggs, will barter
What's a girl with a constant stream of backyard eggs to do -- aside from conditioning her hair with the yolks? Why barter, of course.
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An indigenous take on family planning and population
A Mayan leader in Guatemala finds hope for the survival of his people in a combination of traditional and modern solutions -- including family planning.
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House hearing marks new low in Solyndra witch hunt
Republicans are taking their Solyndra scandalmongering to the next level at today's hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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GOP tries to explain away loan-guarantee hypocrisy, fails
In hyping the Solyndra faux scandal, Republicans have gone after the loan-guarantee program with guns blazing. They just can't support big government picking winners! Except, uh, turns out they can.
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No girls allowed: Dr. Pepper's latest is dudes-only
Dr. Pepper is marketing its new diet soda strictly to men. You can have this one, dudes.
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Chow-to: Stop worrying and love your kitchen timer
Getting used to cooking while doing other things does more than save you time. It changes your eating habits, making it easier to go green in the kitchen.
