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Food industry FAIL: Foods promoted as healthy for kids — surprise! — are mostly not
A new study released today by the Prevention Institute should represent the final nail in the coffin of food industry self-regulation. Out of 50 products claimed to be good for kids, 84 percent flunk basic nutritional standards.
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China's biggest cities grow its greenest citizens
People in large Chinese cities are more environmentally aware -- and more likely to act on that awareness -- than those in smaller cities.
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California city is the first, but not the last, to flee rising sea levels
Threatened by rising ocean levels, the city of Ventura, California is starting to pick up stakes and move inland. This "managed retreat" is the first of its kind in California, but it's not likely to be the last.
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Six reasons free parking is the dumbest thing you didn't know you were subsidizing
The U.S. has as many as eight parking spaces per car. That's more than a billion parking spaces, or one for every person in China, should they need them once they're done buying all our post-crash assets for jiǎos on the yuán. This isn't just overkill -- it's stupid, destructive, expensive overkill.
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New Agtivists: Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez turn coffee grounds into fun fungi kits
When two good-looking 23-year-olds give up careers in investment banking to grow mushrooms, oysters and shiitakes aren't the first fungi one imagines.
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California 'superstorms' could make quakes look tame, and Brisbane look dry
California could be at risk for Old Testament-level storms that could do four to five times the damage of a major earthquake.
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Walmart, KFC, and others fight over Africa’s new middle class
Despite widespread poverty, Africa's middle class is now bigger than India's ... which hasn't escaped the likes of Walmart, KFC, and Nestle.
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Reading the tea leaves for the future of the global food trade
Does your tea habit promote deforestation, soil erosion, gushers of pesticides, and poverty wages? Probably -- even if it's Fair Trade, I'm sorry to say. But it doesn't have to.
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Beware the water cowboys
The water wars are usually about supply and demand. But across the country, financially challenged communities are being aggressively courted -- including by Goldman Sachs! -- to sell or lease their drinking water and wastewater utilities to private companies.
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Time to ruggedize: We should talk more about preparing for climate change
It used to be conventional wisdom among greenies that it's best not to talk much about adapting to climate change. But adaptation may be the most approach to climate change.
