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At Youth Farm, kids learn where food comes from and how to enjoy it [VIDEO]
In honor of Congress finally voting on the long-awaited, yet disappointing Childhood Nutrition Reauthorization act, here's a look at a much more effective way to get kids to eat kale and other vegetables.
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How will cities be shaped by transit in the future?
We constructed four future scenarios of transit in cities, speculating how forces like gas prices and city politics might change the way we move.
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Seattle and Oslo companies form venture to build solar farms
When you think of solar powerhouses, Seattle and Oslo do not exactly come to mind, what with their often-gray skies and location in the northern latitudes. But both have been a hotbed of green tech innovation. Now, two solar companies from those cities have created a joint venture.
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Coal is the savior of the human race
How wonderful is coal? Turns out, it's going to end global poverty!
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Cancun: politics vs. science
All the Cancun climate talk discussions about numbers avoid the reality that we're already on the path to dangerous global warming.
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Boulder rallies around improving its schools' food
Whether it's volunteering in the schools or writing checks to pay for kitchen equipment and training, Boulder residents have stepped up to make their school food revolution happen.
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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.
