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After North Sea oil spill, Shell plans to continue Arctic drilling
The Interior Department acknowledges the effects of climate change in the region but approves more drilling for fossil fuels there.
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Rick Perry thinks Texas climate scientists are in a ‘secular carbon cult’
The Texas governor still refuses to drink the climate science Kool-Aid, no matter how many Texas scientists try to make him see the light (and feel the heat).
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FoodCorps will teach kids, link farms and schools
FoodCorps puts young workers into communities to deliver nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and implement farm-to-school programs.
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Danish-style driving at Legoland California
Pedestrians! Transit! Street vendors! Are we in suburban America anymore?
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Raging storms, rising seas swell ranks of climate refugees
The last decade's destructive storms are a warning: If we can't stabilize the climate, more damage, displacement, and loss lies in the decades ahead.
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Gas is greener? Smearing renewables over land use exposes ignorance of fossil fuel lovers
Oregon’s solar highway. Photo: Oregon Department of TransportationA recent column in the New York Times suggested that land use is the greatest environmental problem facing new renewable energy. While getting the facts terribly wrong, it opens a door to talk about the advantages of distributed generation rather than large, central-station power generation. A prime example […]
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Dolphins take Manhattan
New York is becoming quite the haven of wildlife! There's the pigeons, the giant monkey on the Empire State Building, and now dolphins have been spotted in New York Harbor. The frisky sea critters haven't gotten into an empire state of mind in two years, so this is a big deal — it means the […]
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New trend: Going produce shopping in abandoned gardens
Most cities these days are chock-full of foreclosed properties. Some foreclosed properties are chock-full of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and other sources of fresh produce. That adds up to a lot of tasty plant matter going to waste -- unless people take it upon themselves to harvest food from abandoned houses, either for their own use or to distribute to shelters. That's not legal, but as a New York Times piece makes clear, that doesn't mean it's not a good idea.
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Solar-powered bulb brings both light and commerce to developing countries
Steve Katsaros, inventor of the Nokero solar-powered lightbulb, recently told CNN that he decided to sell his bulbs rather than give them away even though it runs counter to the traditional model of aid to the developing world.
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In a world of 7 billion, what does the typical person look like?
Here's a new take on the "new normal." National Geographic has run some calculations on our population averages, now that we're staring 7 billion in the face. The verdict: The most typical human right now is a 28-year-old Han Chinese man — there are over 9,000,000 people in the world fitting that description! — who […]
