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Green is the new red: environmental activists under attack

Will Potter on the eerie parallels between the Red Scare and the kind of repression and paranoia the green movement faces today.

25 days of dares: Planet pictures, tossing toxins

In the third week of Umbra's month of dares, she dresses up like a bee and stops to smell the planet.

Nissan Leaf Orphan Finds New Home

You can read my earlier Leaf posts here, here, here, and here. The Leaf I ordered is not due to arrive for another two months. Another engineer that I work with called me up (while he was on vacation) to tell me that he had just test driven an orphaned (the ordering party decided not […]

Universal health care and the medium chill

Is U.S. economic policy currently biased against medium chillers? Or is it biased against killers? Or both? The big problem is health care.

Norway terrorist is a climate change denier

Anders Breivik, Norway terrorist, is a climate change denier, like many American conservatives.

Cooperative South Dakota wind farm nets 600 local owners

This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. With the right renewable energy policy, hundreds of individuals can have a stake in a renewable energy future.  That’s what happened with a cooperatively-owned wind project in South Dakota, where 7 turbines from a larger wind project […]

Everyone thinks Obama is doing a bad job on the environment

Yale Environment 360 asked a series of environmental thinkers, activists, and policymakers what they think of Barack Obama's record on the environmental record so far. The overwhelming response was that they didn't think very much of it at all.

Here’s climate writer and activist Bill McKibben:

The EPA does not want you feeding arsenic to your baby

It's only 16 months until the next election, and you know what that means: We are in the thick of political ad season. Mostly that makes everybody want to crawl under a sofa, but sometimes you get arresting ads like this one from American Family Voices.

Top 10 American vacation spots House bill could ruin

The House of Representatives is set to vote for over 40 provisions that would endanger the health of some of America's most beautiful vacation spots.

Is it enough to tax junk food and subsidize good food?

The New York Times' Mark Bittman is right that we need to tax junk food and make healthy food more affordable. But we also need to quash junk-food advertising.