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Greening up your shiny new iPhone with endangered species ringtones
Download an endangered species ringtone and make every call a cry for help from a Gunnison's prairie dog, a Mexican gray wolf, or a California condor.
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Brother, can you spare a fridge?
Just in time for the holiday cooking marathon, my spare side-by-side refrigerator conked out. Here's why I won't be replacing it.
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Food safety bill passes House, skates to prez's desk at last
After months of being hopelessly embroiled in Senate dysfunction, the Food Safety Modernization Act has triumphed in the House. Again. This time, it will go to Obama's desk and be signed into law.
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Premier Stelmach, Please Read
December 21, 2010 Dear Premier Stelmach, Merry Christmas, Premier Stelmach, and health and happiness to you and your family. We have never met, but this is the first of many letters you will receive from me, each one accompanied by a great and important book. I must say, before I introduce the first one, that […]
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An experiment in encouraging in-transit conversation
An experiment in Brisbane, Australia, aims to start conversations on the city's buses.
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Federal solar incentives cost schools ownership opportunity
This is part of a series on distributed renewable energy. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. There’s been a fair amount of news about the spread of solar carports in California, highlighting the Milpitas School District’s 14 distributed solar PV arrays. According to a […]
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What does the Bible have to say about climate change? [AUDIO]
There's an emerging environmental movement among faith-based communities in the U.S., but still considerable disagreement about climate change.
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A conversation with Bill McKibben
The paperback version of my book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our last Chance to Save Humanity is now available. It includes, as an added section, a conversation between me and organizer Bill McKibben.
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In a tasting of seven eco-cocoas, only one hits the mark
You're stressed, and it's cold out there. Time to relax over hot chocolate. Let's mull the available eco-cocoas, and pick out one sure to melt away holiday stress!
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Further adventures in the territories of hope
After the Macondo well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it was easy enough (on your choice of screen) to see a flaming oil platform, the very sea itself set afire with huge plumes of black smoke rising, and the dark smear of what would become five million barrels of oil beginning to soak birds and beaches. Infinitely harder to see and less dramatic was the vast counterforce soon at work: the mobilizing of tens of thousands of volunteers.
