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Food Studies: Q: How to make a real-world job out of your love for food?

A: Heavy-duty statistics, business writing practice, and a killer packed lunch.

McConnell opposes energy loan guarantees — except in Kentucky

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is outraged that politically connected energy companies are getting loan guarantees ... outside of Kentucky, his home state.

Could Nebraska stop Keystone XL?

Will Nebraska lawmakers try to force a reroute of the Keystone XL pipeline, now that they've seen how much Cornhusker football fans hate it?

One small step to help keep Solyndra from becoming the next Climategate

David Roberts is right that the anti-renewable right is likely to turn Solyndra into the next “Climategate”, an exaggeration of a minor or non-existent scandal into a major attack. One contribution to blunting this would be if “Climate Hawks” would agree on a single talking out of the many true things that could be said. […]

The small-town energy revolution

Until recently, the idea of powering a local economy with 100 percent renewable energy seemed unrealistic. That has changed: There's a small-town energy revolution underway.

Did Walmart buy urban agriculture group's silence?

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, goes the old adage. Will the mega-retailer's recent donation bring the Milwaukee-based Growing Power $1 million closer?

Can green jobs save the day?

All sorts of different claims and arguments get jumbled together under the rubric of green jobs. Let's pick apart the claims and get past the sloganeering.

Please try IronCache — a memcached extension for ExpressionEngine

IronCache is an extension for the ExpressionEngine CMS that boosts performance for high traffic sites by using memcached

Solyndra was collateral damage in a trade war with China

Solar-panel installations are booming in the U.S. even as domestic solar companies are struggling, thanks to China's policy of shoveling money into its solar industry.

Wall Street Journal embraces peak oil denialism

 

Daniel Yergin is to peak oil and limits to growth what Richard Lindzen, Anthony Watts, Christopher Monckton, the Heartland Institute and Exxon Mobil are to climate change. That is, Yergin's entire reason for being in the public eye is his rejection of the possible arrival of this calamity.

So of course it's perfectly logical that the Wall Street Journal, long a bastion of climate change denial, would give Yergin a stage on which to spew his unique brand of half-truths.