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Critical List: 24 hours later, climate change still a reality; EPA will miss GHG deadline
Al Gore said some stuff.
Texans return to their burnt-out homes. If these droughts keep up, it won’t be too long before the state gets on board with Gore.
The EPA won't make a deadline for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
Here's what an imaginary, perfectly green Obama would do on environmental issues. Democrats should run this guy in 2012! -
Just park it [SLIDESHOW]
Friday was Park(ing) Day, when folks reclaim parking spots around the world for dinner parties, cornhole tournaments, performance art — even urban chickens. Here are some of our favorite shots from the past few years. Score one for the humans!
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken run
In which our heroine travels to a real farm and resists buying a dozen laying hens -- but settles for a half-dozen.
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Reports of the death of solar power are highly exaggerated
Saying Solyndra means the end of solar power in the U.S. is like saying there is no future for the web because Netscape went out of business.
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Where the buffalo roamed [VIDEO]
Almost halfway through our six-month, food-focused journey across America, we found a place we didn't want to leave.
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Why we should democratize the electricity system – part 4
A serialized version of ILSR‘s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 4 of 5. Click for Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3. Roadblocks to Distributed, Local Renewable Energy Despite technology’s march toward more efficient and distributed energy production, there’s a substantial tension between the decentralized opportunity and the institutional and policy inertia […]
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Oh, now we're not regulating greenhouse gases either
The EPA, as expected, has decided to postpone making rules about carbon dioxide and other harmful gas emissions from power plants. I mean, greenhouse gas regulations? How is that REMOTELY the job of the Environmental Protection Agency, amirite?
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Taking the subway: You're doing it wrong
It's supposed to be instead of your car.
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Stopping bad things and starting good ones
On Moving Planet Day, Sept. 24, people around the world will get on bikes, skateboards, and their own two feet to put fossil fuels in the rearview mirror.
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Alternative fuel source: Doritos?
We use hydrocarbons in cars, home heating, and so forth because hydrocarbons burn. We also make snack chips out of hydrocarbons because we are disgusting. Ergo, we should be able to run our combustion energy off of Doritos! Okay, so it would probably miss the point if we tried to replace fossil fuels with snack […]
