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Stunning new tool maps out factory farms near you
Food & Water Watch has launched a spectacular visual tool for illuminating the meat industry's shady dominance of the U.S. landscape. Try it out -- I did!
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A new study of data from Lyon's bike-share system could help planners
The hugely popular Velo'v bike-share system is providing a source for hard data on bicycling, having to do with travel times and routes.
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On your 40th anniversary, thank you EPA
Forty years ago today, the Environmental Protection Agency was created. It’s fitting that the anniversary falls just one week after Thanksgiving, because every American from every state should be grateful for the Agency’s work. Consider that by 1990, the EPA’s actions had prevented 205,000 premature American deaths, 189,000 cardiovascular hospitalizations and 18 million child respiratory […]
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Richard Goldman, founder of the Goldman Prize, dies at age 90
The planet lost a great and generous hero on Monday when philanthropist Richard N. Goldman died at the age of 90.
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Future at risk on a hotter planet
We are altering the earth’s climate, setting in motion trends we do not always understand with consequences we cannot anticipate.
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Today’s DIY women: Post-'domestic’?
I grow, knit, preserve, and cook. But I am pretty far from being what I think of as “traditional.”
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Why you love the places you live, in your own words
Last week I put out a question to you, dear readers: Why do you love the place you live? The response from you was immediate and tremendous.
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USDA chief visits with Stephen Colbert, brings cheese
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack makes an appearance on the Colbert Report, parries the comedian's pointed policy questions, and delivers a strangely familiar cheese sculpture.
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Improving accuracy and accountability in the International Global Warming agreement
Having a strong, credible, and transparent system for tracking greenhouse gas emissions and the actions of a country is an essential building block of an effective international system to address global warming. This was a key issue at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009. Resolving important details about how these pieces would be implemented has been […]
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Leaked cables reveal Saudi minister of petroleum helped craft toothless Copenhagen climate accord
Trying to get Saudi Arabia to sign on to an international climate accord is like asking a drug dealer to start a rehabilitation clinic.
