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How to power homes with 100% clean and increasingly local power
Marin Clean Energy in California leads the way in clean, local energy with its community choice aggregation model.
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Friday music blogging: The Avett Brothers' new songs
I wrote a cover story on The Avett Brothers for glossy guitar mag Fretboard Journal. It's finally online. While you're at it, check out a few videos of new songs they've been playing.
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Growing Midwest and Appalachian efficiency markets
Like boiling frogs, it’s the rate of change that matters when it comes to energy efficiency investments. Consumers who have grown accustomed to $4 gasoline are much less likely to buy a hybrid car than ones who just saw their gasoline price double from $1 to $2 between fill-ups. This is the silver lining of […]
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Amazing bamboo bike is grown, not manufactured
The complicated weave of the Ajiro bike would be work-intensive to achieve through conventional means -- it takes a lot of energy to bend bamboo stalks into shape. So instead, design student Alexander Vittouris tensioned the bamboo over a mold as it grew, then harvested a completed bike frame.
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A body of evidence for bodily harm from air pollution
An op-ed writer for the Washington Times demands the EPA "show him the bodies" of victims of power plant emissions. Sadly, that is all too easy to do.
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Secondhand style: Duds for downward dog
It turns out my boring dress was perfect for the heat. And I even found thrifty clothes for yoga class. Now to shop for a weekend of drinking -- I mean, hiking.
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Meet your newest green candidate: Double Rainbow guy
It turns out that Double Rainbow guy, everyone's favorite non-cat meme producer since Tay Zonday, has a name (it's Paul Vasquez) and a face (it's sort of Cheech Marin meets Hurley). He also has an alternative energy platform and a presidential campaign, of sorts. A Facebook app called Votocracy allows normal (for some value of "normal") people to declare their candidacy, garner votes, and even debate each other in a sort of American Idolesque shadow campaign.
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Urban acupuncture for a healthier city
Small-scale green spaces -- not huge, expensive projects -- are a good way to heal our cities.
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Why doesn't the U.S. government allow teleworking when it's hot?
Feds are allowed to stay home when it snows, but not when it's so hot that the pavement is literally melting. Wha?
