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Come and get your Endangered Species Condoms [SLIDESHOW]
The Center for Biological Diversity wants to give away 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms this fall. Wanna help? Sign up and you’ll always have a good pick-up line. The condoms are part of the 7 Billion and Counting campaign highlighting how population growth threatens diversity.
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Come and get your Endangered Species Condoms
The Center for Biological Diversity wants to give away 100,000 Endangered Species Condoms this fall. Wanna help?
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Big Oil's mountain of cash
Oil companies cling to tax breaks while hoarding tens of billions.
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Does energy storage compensate for water-thirsty concentrating solar thermal power?
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Concentrating solar thermal power has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage. But with significant water consumption in desert locations, is the energy storage benefit of concentrating solar enough […]
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Germany's phaseout reveals the true costs of nuclear power
Bad news for nuclear advocates: Nuclear power turns out even more expensive than we thought.
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Change GDP, change the world
What if social and political change -- changes in government policy, cultural norms -- can do for demand what technological change can do for supply?
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Economists: Every $1 of electricity from coal does $2 in damage to U.S.
We all knew coal is harmful -- we figured people just ignored that harm because of their profit margins. But according to the prestigious American Economic Review, harm from coal-fired electrical plants costs more than twice as much as the electricity they generate. All told, coal plants cause $53 billion in damage every year. And none of that even takes climate impacts into account.
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Wrestling baby bears stop traffic
This is why we have national parks, people: So there's one place in the country where "share the road" means "stop your damn car so baby bears can have a little tussle."
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It takes a village to save a drowning farm
After Hurricane Irene, soaked farmers are trying to get by with a little help from their friends.
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Environmental leaders to Congress: Don't stop funding conservation on farms
A coalition of 56 influential policy organizations are working to ensure that clean air and water remain at the center of the Farm Bill discussion.
