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Fossil energy knows it's a full contact game — does cleantech?
Cleantech investors, executives, and leaders have a lot at stake, and they should pay attention to dirty energy's increasingly aggressive attacks.
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A talk with Charles Marohn, 'recovering engineer' and cofounder of Strong Towns
We discuss how smart planning can transcend politics and why we should let the Tea Party have what they want.
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Time to move like the wind to save clean energy
Rep. Ed Markey argues that the framework tax deal announced this week by President Obama and GOP Senate leaders threatens to kill clean energy jobs.
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EPA names the nation's top smart-growth cities
When it comes to smart growth, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the smartest cities are New York, Baltimore, Portland, and San Francisco.
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Solar developers race clock as sun sets on lucrative incentives
Time is running out for solar developers seeking federal cash grants for major projects.
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China plans to continue expanding renewable energy production
China has firmly established itself as a key player in the clean energy sector. The country is significantly ramping up its renewable energy capacity, increasing energy efficiency, investing in research and development, and shutting down some of its least efficient coal plants. These encouraging trends are likely to continue or accelerate in the years to come.
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Meet James McWilliams, meat-industry defender — and aggrieved vegan?
James McWilliams has made a career of defending the food industry from what he sees as its hysterical, unreasonable critics (such as yours truly). At several points, this mission has led him to defend industrial meat. All of this makes his latest -- a moralistic vegan screed -- hard to swallow.
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Bangladesh minister responds to GOP climate zombies
Bangladesh environment minister says negative climate impacts are obvious in his country.
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Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Does caring about the environment make you crazy?
Umbra kicks off discussion of her Book Club pick, Freedom, with a video of Jonathan Franzen talking about the mental toll of caring for the environment.
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Colorado is Poised to Actually Close Coal Plants
The holy grail of solving climate change, according to climate scientists like Jim Hansen, is shutting down coal plants. That’s easier said than done, of course, because each year we run these old, dirty civilization destroyers gives us anoother year of cheap power. But Colorado, showing world leadership, is actually working on closing plants. In fact […]
