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The Oscar-nominated green documentary short you have to watch
Watch the Oscar-nominated short film about a Chinese village that conquered a chemical company. Trickery! People overcoming adversity! Cute swans!
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Chinese solar company scores with German soccer team sponsorship
Yingli Green Energy is getting into the world's game by sponsoring FC Bayern Munich, one of the biggest teams in soccer.
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Caught a wascally wabbit? Give it the French treatment [VIDEO]
Last week, I portrayed the unnerving experience of slaughtering a bunny. Now, I move to a more uplifting task: making rabbit terrine.
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Obama was wrong not to mention climate change in his State of the Union
Fresh off the hottest year on record, Obama's 2011 State of the Union said ... nothing about climate change. This is a failure on Obama's part.
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Obama finally pitched an energy tent big enough to attract Republicans
George Will, the conservative columnist who predicted Obama would try to "stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate" with his State of the Union speech, must be smoking a cigarette in bed by now.
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Republican rep halts House composting program to make room for all-new garbage
In a courageous move to reduce the Congressional operating budget by as much as 0.07 percent, Republican representative Dan Lungren of California has halted the House's composting program. This is of course totally legitimate budget-busting and not any kind of purely symbolic dick-waving.
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Where Westlands water flows, California’s agriculture follows
What's happening in California's Westlands Water District provides a sneak peek at the problems that farmers all over the world will soon confront.
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Carnivorous plant goes batshit for bat shit
File under "the disgusting wonders of nature": Scientists have discovered a species of pitcher plant in Borneo that is a living bat toilet. The plants offer cozy quarters for local bats, and the bats repay them by shitting down their necks. Talk about the circle of life.
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Building lots of infrastructure sounds great. Paying for it won't be easy
Obama isn't backing down from his push to make high-speed rail part of his legacy. But with transportation infrastructure, funding remains an issue.
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Flava Flav opens fried chicken chain, threatens the Colonel
Look out, KFC: Flav's Fried Chicken is coming! Flava Flav just opened his first fried chicken joint in Iowa, vowing to come by and work the fryer.
