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Helmet Wars: A gripping account of the great bicycle helmet campaigns
So, is it safer to wear a bike helmet or not? Parties on both sides of the question claim rationality and cultural superiority for their own. The opponents are engaged in a bloody, winner-take-all contest, with perfect willingness to let ideology wash away all science and common sense. But is this even the right question to ask?
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Update: Bayer responds to criticism of its potentially bee-killing pesticide
What does Bayer have to say about the whole leaked-EPA-memo, flawed-pesticide-study thing? "Buzz off -- nothing to see here, move along please."
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Helpful raw-milk-drinking mom threatened with prosecution
For the last seven years, Rae Lynn Sandvig, a mother of four, has been helping a local dairy farmer distribute unpasteurized milk to 35 or 40 friends and neighbors in the Minneapolis suburbs. Then she got busted by the food police.
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Ask Umbra gives relationship advice to a couple battling it out over 'eco-stress'
Ask Umbra gets personal and gives advice to a reader who has a “different level of commitment to sustainability” than her husband. What to do if you’re more eco-aware than the one you love? If you’re a lover and/or a fighter, read this!
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Springing to life, food safety bill charts a course to the president’s desk
After passing the Senate once again, this time in a surprise Sunday vote, the food safety bill seems to have a clear pathway to the president's desk, where it will be signed into law.
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Sweet bites for the holidays [RECIPES]
As Christmas approaches, some like to shop and some decorate. Me, I crank up the cookie factory. Here are some of my personal favorites.
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Top 10 green stories of 2010
From California to China, Bill Clinton to Jonathan Franzen, Monsanto to BP, denial to death, here are the stories that mattered most this year.
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California approves more Big Solar projects
The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved two more big solar thermal power plants, ending the year having green-lighted a total of nine projects that would generate 4,142.5 megawatts if all were built.
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Friday music blogging: The Secret Sisters
The Secret Sisters are Lydia and Laura Rogers, a duo based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Their sweet voices and old-time sensibility caught the interest of the legendary T-Bone Burnett, who took them under his wing, produced their record, and started a label purely to release it.
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Kids say the darndest things about the planet
Check out what kids say they would get Earth for Christmas. And find out how to win a signed copy of Kids Make It Better: A Write-in, Draw-in Journal.
