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What the FDA doesn’t want you to know about GE salmon
The Center for Food Safety has found evidence the FDA is excluding the government's own marine scientists from the GE salmon approval process.
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Please welcome the adventurous locavore of 'The Perennial Plate' [VIDEO]
Long winters, ice fishing, slaughterhouses, urban gardens, and foraging for wild edibles all are ingredients for Daniel Klein's video feasts, which are set to a seriously awesome raucous soundtrack.
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Some tips on city-fixing from people who should know, in New Orleans
Five years after Katrina, the people of New Orleans can be damn proud of the progress they have made. So listen up. They've learned some things about fixing their city that you could stand to know, even if you're not living in a disaster zone. Or if you're living in a place that just looks and feels like a disaster zone -- say, a crumbling Rust Belt city, or a foreclosure-gutted subdivision.
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2010 still on track to be hottest on record
NASA reports that from January through October Earth continued to run a record temperature. And November is off to a hot start.
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How the Wall Street Journal twisted the facts on transmission
The Wall Street Journal recently published an editorial, "The Great Transmission Heist," that took a swing at renewable energy. That's not surprising. What is surprising is that the piece wholly abandoned not only the facts, but fundamental market principles related to the energy sector.
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Paint-and-seed grenade-launcher aims to bomb the blight out of America
Bomb the Blight founder Tommy Wilson is the latest to join the ranks of those pimping the pavement, and he's armed with seed bombs, paint, and an air cannon.
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Advice for a carbon-powered Congress
At least three oracles offer a different vision for our carbon-powered Congress to follow that may result in more jobs and a faster economic recovery.
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Urban agriculture in West Oakland gets a $4 million boost
City Slicker Farms gets $4 million from the state to buy land for an "urban farm park" that will not only grow food for residents, but provide a safe place to play and hang out.
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Will the Food Safety Modernization Act better protect us from contaminated food?
Our invited panel of experts -- and two scrappy Grist readers -- debate whether the bill now before the Senate will decrease large-scale food-borne illness outbreaks of the type we've recently seen in eggs and peanut butter.
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The Climate Post: Climate scientists: It’s war
700 climate scientists agreed to speak out as experts about global warming. Plus, coal enjoys November and the Copenhagen failure costs $1 trillion.
