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Mark Ruffalo wants you to fight the tar sands
Actor Mark Ruffalo explains why you should join him and thousands of others in protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 20.
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Peebottle Farms: Back to the land in Brooklyn
Welcome to my Bedford-Stuyvesant urban farm.
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Rick Perry wants to frack Iowa
At an Iowa campaign stop, Rick Perry told voters that he's not aware of any instances when fracking contaminated groundwater.
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Baby steps: USDA tiptoes toward fighting animal cruelty
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service takes an important step to crack down on livestock abuse. But there's still more work to be done.
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Perry reveals plan for total anarchy: 'a moratorium on regulations'
The Texas governor and presidential candidate says regulations kill jobs. He forgets that they also save lives, and save the U.S. from descending into complete lawlessness.
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Mountaintop-removal mining is unpopular even in coal country
A strong majority of Appalachians oppose mountaintop-removal coal mining -- 57 percent -- according to a new poll conducted in the region.
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I'll be seeing you
It's my last day as cities editor at Grist, but I hate to say goodbye.
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Biodegradable urn helps you push up daisies
Now you can say, "I'll go green over my dead body!" and not have to worry about people thinking you've lost it. Designer Martin Azua's Bios Urn pries eco-friendliness from your cold dead hands, by using cremains to help nourish a tree seed. The urn is made from cellulose, coconut fiber, and peat, and it already contains […]
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Walmart to go 100 percent renewable … in Canada
As the world's biggest, union-bustingest retailer, gigantic sack of Chinese lead paint chips Walmart has the opportunity to push more money at sustainability than pretty much anybody else on the planet. Which is why the company, like IKEA before it, is committing to getting 100 percent of its power from renewable sources!
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Record heat causes nation's water pipes to 'burst like geysers'
The EPA helps towns with infrastructure upgrades that can prevent the problem. Too bad politicians in Texas want to shut the agency down.
