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Fight climate change by following the speed limit
Bay Area drivers could get a friendly push from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to fight climate change through "smart driving." This means: going easy on fuel consumption by avoiding sudden acceleration, keeping their tires inflated, ditching the golf clubs in the truck, keeping their cars tuned up, and most of all, following the goddamn speed limit.
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Spanish city lets you trade in your car for a lifetime pass on public transit
The Spanish city of Murcia offered its residents a lifetime of free trolley rides if they would only give up their cars.
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Toronto women's shelter starts bike-sharing program
When you're broke and scared and used to not being in charge of your own life, regaining autonomy is a step-by-step process. Getting on a bike can help with all that.
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Zero-energy lighting for poor communities requires only water and bleach
It can get pretty dark under the corrugated metal roofs of Manila’s slums. Millions of families in the Philippines go without electric light, and those who have it can be at risk of fires from faulty wiring. But thanks to an innovation developed at MIT and distributed by the Liter of Light project, that problem […]
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So much for GOP's lightbulb bill
Whether they decided they had more important things to worry about than saving the inefficient lightbulb, or whether they were scared of enraging the ghost of Thomas Edison, House members put the kibosh on a bill that would have repealed lightbulb efficiency standards.
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Coal company: 'Birth defects aren't from mining, they're because you're inbred hicks'
Babies born in areas with mountaintop-removal mining have higher rates of birth defects -- we know that from a study that came out last month. But, say coal companies, that doesn't mean the mining CAUSES the birth defects! They could easily be caused by something else -- like, say, rampant inbreeding.
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Critical List: It’s hot; 2.7 million Americans work in clean energy
It's hot. It's hot. It's hooooottttt.
You want green jobs? Here are your green jobs: 2.7 million Americans are employed in the clean energy economy, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.
But that could all end with a drop-off in government subsidies across the world. -
'Katrina cottages' become permanent housing
"Katrina cottages," alternatives to FEMA trailers used after Hurricane Katrina, find new life around the country as housing and educational facilities.
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Why aren't men demanding decent male birth control?
Contraception has long been the province of women. Isn't it about time for men to get in on the game? These days men have a lot more at stake than they used to.
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Trashtivist: Where did the garbage go?
I want to tell you stories about my gross garbage. I really do. But so far, there's just not that much of it.
