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Food-safety bill stalled; Stabenow named Senate ag chair
The world's greatest deliberative body didn't manage to vote on the food safety bill before their Thanksgiving recess.
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Mother of Green Party candidate killed by SUV becomes bike-safety advocate
No amount of infrastructure will be sufficient if we continue to treat vehicular manslaughter so cavalierly.
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Live chat with Sierra Club’s Michael Brune
We were all horrified as we watched the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill unfold. So now what? Champion chatter (and Grist staff writer) David Roberts hosted a pre-Thanksgiving chat with Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. Thanks to all who joined us as Michael and David discussed how we, as motivated citizens, can pressure corporations and the government to change their energy priorities.
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The Onion serves up some 'wrath-minded' GM taters [VIDEO]
Joad Cressbeckler has just heard that genetically modified potatoes have been approved (they're actually being planted in the E.U.), and fears that they're coming for us.
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Older urban preservationists risk becoming urban fossils
For young urban advocates in Washington, D.C., change is good. Their elders, traumatized by the 20th century, have trouble looking forward.
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6 ways to solve the ‘renter’s dilemma’ for home energy
If renters aren't staying and landlords aren't paying utility bills, who pays for home-energy improvements?
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Weeks 23 & 24: Some unsavory choices
Local, seasonal CSA produce is autumnal cornucopia. It's time for the Urbivore to get roasting -- but what happens when she can't take a turnip and finds her sense of wonder wounded by a worm?
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Carbon-pricing and technology R&D initiatives: Both are necessary, but neither is sufficient
Economists and other policy analysts have noted that policies intended to foster climate-friendly technology research and development will also be necessary, but likewise will not be sufficient on their own.
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NBC’s green nagging takes a break for the Prince of Wales documentary ‘Harmony’
The film looks mighty, mighty earnest, so consider yourself warned if you're prone to nodding off at such things.
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Sorry, McWilliams, the New York Times got the USDA cheese story right
The counterattacks on Michael Moss's exposé of the USDA's hypocritical efforts to get Americans to consume more high-fat dairy are wrongheaded. Milk and pork "checkoffs" do indeed represent the federal government at work.
