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Food Studies: Can we prove Malthus wrong?
After a year of plant science studies, the agricultural landscapes of Laos are a call to revolution. Green revolution.
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Kickstarting on-demand heirloom produce
A new online project takes the traditional CSA model one step further by allowing eaters to help decide what heirloom produce farmers plant.
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Critical List: Enviro groups sue over Keystone XL; Energy Dept. considered second Solyndra loan
The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Inc., and Western Nebraska Resources Council sued the U.S. for starting work preemptively on the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Department of Energy thought (but not that hard! Really!) about giving Solyndra an additional $469 million loan.
The mystery of why the FBI kept British environmentalist John Stewart from entering the country: Explained. Apparently the bureau was concerned he would super-glue himself to Sarah Palin.
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Attention climate wonks: you can't take the politics out of politics
Princeton's Robert Socolow is the latest climate wonk to wistfully hope that we can tackle climate change through reasoned persuasion. That's unlikely.
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Labor pains on the farm
Farmers hoping to battle the Great Recession by hiring out-of-work locals in lieu of legal migrants struggle to keep them on the farm. Americans may have gone "soft," but rural depopulation is the root of the problem.
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What worms eat for breakfast
Our budding Worm Mistress settles in to life with the wrigglers and discovers that it's not as complicated as she feared.
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Marching on two wheels: bikes, protest, and public space
The folks on Wall Street discover what Critical Mass has long known: A bike is a powerful protest tool.
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Climate activism stands with Occupy Wall Street Movement
Riding on the momentum created by the Keystone XL pipeline protests, climate movement leaders are getting involved in the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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Plane flies 200 miles in two hours on just electricity
Pipistrel-USA's Taurus G4 won the NASA's CAFE Green Flight Challenge (top prize $1.35 million!) by flying 200 miles in under two hours, using an amount of electricity equivalent to less than two gallons of gas. Google sponsored the competition, which is supposed to stimulate the “electric plane industry.” Who even knew there was an electric […]
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If you want a green building, make it out of wood
The third little pig might have staved off disaster, but the second little pig was the greenest, according to the USDA. The agency looked at dozens of studies comparing wood to concrete and steel and declared wood the winner when it comes to emissions. Attempts to use materials other than wood in construction yield, on average, 2.1 tons more greenhouse gases per ton of material.
