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Holy sheet! Ask Umbra on printers
Inkjet? Laser? What’s an eco-conscious person to use when hard copy is a necessity? Ask Umbra spells it out for you.
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Concentrated solar power plants are all wet
Concentrating solar has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage -- but there's a catch.
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Environmentalists need to care about abortion [VIDEO]
You can't have a sustainable society if women are having children they don't want. This video from the Guttmacher Institute looks at who's having abortions in America.
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As summer temperatures rise, so does deadly coal pollution
Coal-fired power plants are a huge source of air pollution, which poses an immediate threat to health on hot summer days when smog levels are highest.
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BP funds push for more offshore drilling in oil-soaked Louisiana
A little more than a year after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP is funding a right-wing lobbying group that opposes regulation of offshore drilling.
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Majora Carter to launch national brand for local produce
The green-jobs activist behind the South Bronx Greenway now looks to create accessible jobs in food production.
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Most of the country had record heat in July
This July has seen so many record daytime and nighttime temperatures that if you plot them on a map, they show a nearly complete image of the lower 48 states. Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (i.e., nighttime records). It should […]
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By God, Donald Trump will not let this wind farm stand
Not satisfied with making (more of) a mockery of the electoral process, Donald Trump is now going after wind power, vowing to use "any legal means" to block a planned windfarm near his golf course in Scotland. Trump claims it's not simple rich-white-guy opposition to renewable power, or the fact that he's worried the turbines […]
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How to cover 100 percent of your car expenses by renting yours out
Getaround is a car-sharing service like ZipCar, except instead of borrowing the company's vehicles, you're borrowing your neighbors'.
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EPA found over 20 years ago that fracking contaminates water
Fracking companies like to say that there’s never been a single case of fracking contaminating a water well. But, well, there has, and they’ve known that for over 20 years. An EPA report released in 1987 said that a tainted well in West Virginia was contaminated by fracking.
The report, which covers an 1984 incident, resurfaced this week in a New York Times article and a report from the Environmental Working Group.
The report details how fracking fluids or gels migrated from the fracking well to an active water well on a neighboring property, rendering it unusable.
