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The Atlanta BeltLine: The country’s most ambitious smart growth project
The Atlanta BeltLine shows some progress and much remaining potential.
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UPDATE: Tim DeChristopher gets two years in prison
Climate activist Tim DeChristopher will face two years in jail and a $10,000 fine for two federal felonies incurred while disrupting an oil and gas auction in Utah.
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Floating hydroponic farm makes food with zero waste
Here's an urban farm we'll still be able to use when rising sea levels flood all our cities! Science Barge is a floating organic farm set aboard a barge in the Hudson river.
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Transportation and social justice: The sentence is in on the Raquel Nelson case
Could the case of a mother convicted of vehicular homicide for crossing the street with her son be a turning point for the rights of pedestrians and transit users?
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Crazy ideas for next-gen wind turbines
Is there any image that represents a renewable energy future better than a stately white wind turbine turning on a hillside? Well, don't get too used to it! Researchers are coming up with all sorts of crazy ideas to improve on the current turbine model, the Los Angeles Times’ Tiffany Hsu reports. Here’s what future wind turbines will look like:
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Green crush: Beets in Brooklyn
Author Anna Lappe expresses her love for Just Food in 17 syllables.
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Here's what an hour's worth of ocean trash looks like
This artwork by Chris Jordan is made up of 2.4 million pieces of plastic, all collected from the Pacific Ocean. (You can see details here.) This is already staggering, but it's actually only a fraction of what gets pumped into the ocean every hour. If every one of these pieces were a pound of plastic, […]
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Chesapeake Bay dead zone could be the largest ever
One-third of the Chesapeake Bay is a dead zone this year. The Washington Post reports:
Especially heavy flows of tainted water from the Susquehanna River brought as much nutrient pollution into the bay by May as normally comes in an entire average year, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources researcher said. As a result, “in Maryland we saw the worst June” ever for nutrient pollution, said Bruce Michael, director of the DNR’s resource assessment service.
The dead zone could grow to be the largest ever.
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Climate change already killing baby polar bears
Climate change isn't just killing polar bears, it's killing baby polar bears. YOU MONSTER.
A study that tracked polar bears swimming long distances found cubs that swam more than 30 miles at a time were more likely to die than cubs that didn't. Baby polars have a hard time making those swims because:
