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Food justice: It's not black and white in Detroit
I recently spent two weeks in Detroit, working at Brother Nature Produce farm and watching how the city’s food-justice groups handle race and privilege.
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High-speed rail too expensive? Let’s go with bullet-speed buses [VIDEO]
President Obama's proposed high-speed train system will be replaced with a fleet of buses that will rocket along highways at speeds up to 165 mph (according to The Onion).
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John Adams Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congratulations are in order for John H. Adams, the co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, who yesterday was named one of the 15 recipients this year of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. Adams is the first founder of an American environmental advocacy organization to receive the award since Russell […]
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Bjorn Lomborg's mostly unoriginal, kind-of-dishonest new movie is worth thinking about anyway
'Cool It' is a movie by a lying liar who lies, but that doesn't mean Lomborg doesn't have a point: we should be spending more money on clean energy.
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U.K. gives up, hands food policy over to McDonald's, KFC, and friends
The U.K. government has put some very odd companies in charge of making food and alcohol policy. Don't laugh -- things aren't so different on this side of the pond.
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Bicycle vendors can help bring dead urban spaces to life
In China, peddlers who pedal sometimes improve poorly planned streets.
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White House to put 6,000 salad bars in schools
First Lady Michelle Obama announced today that the White House is backing a national salad bar initiative for schools, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition-tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.
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The battle over drilling moves north to Alaska
So it looks like Lisa Murkowski has won her write-in campaign to get re-elected to the Senate.
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Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser won’t have kids for green reasons [VIDEO]
Actor Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell on "Mad Men," says he has made the "green choice" not to have children. Welcome to the GINK club!
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A cleantech revolution in four easy steps
Armond Cohen outlines the best ways to ease our transition into renewable power.
