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Campus revolts over bottled-water bans
Two Minnesota college campus have banned bottled water, and students are, like, totally flipping out. As one College Republican, who apparently is also enrolled in the Sarah Palin School of Political Oratory, put it:
“A little bit goes along the line of free choice. For us, that’s a big principle, in College Republicans is that you can’t really delegate to students what they can and cannot do in their own free will,” said Caitlyn Spence, chair of the St. Benedict Republicans.
(What?)
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Food Studies: biting off more than he can chew?
After a summer spent cooking, volunteering, and teaching, Josh struggles to choose just one food topic to explore in his senior essay at Yale.
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The aliens have landed!
A peek into one cubic foot of the San Francisco Bay reveals all manner of creepy crawlies -- and offers a window into our world's astonishing biodiversity.
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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?
