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As end times near, Glenn Beck peddles ‘food insurance’ kits
Glenn Beck's make-a-buck survivalism is crass and designed to keep fear alive. There are better ways for societies to prepare for hard times.
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Rabbit chow filters sex hormones out of wastewater
Faced with a crapload of sex hormones slipping through water treatment facilities, researchers have hopped onto a possible solution for our oversexed waste solutions: rabbit chow.
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What should climate hawks do next? Fight for free birth control
Climate hawks are floundering after the election. What now? They should join the fight to make insurers cover the full cost of contraception.
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Boulder's cafeterias are attracting a new kind of 'lunch ladies'
Ann Cooper has created a parallel culinary universe where newly trained chefs forgo a glamorous restaurant career to mash potatoes for teenagers. But that's meant cuts for longtime cafeteria staff who only know how to microwave.
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New coal ash hotline and video
The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed coal ash safeguards is winding down, with the deadline being next Friday, Nov. 19. (Have you submitted your comment yet?) But just because the deadline is approaching does not mean we’re slowing our action on coal ash. It’s toxic and must be treated as such. That’s […]
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iPhone app lets agencies crowdsource environmental monitoring
IBM rolled out Creek Watch, an iPhone app that lets the California State Water Resources Control Board crowdsource the condition of waterways.
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My debate on energy policy with Steve Everley — watch it! [VIDEO]
Watch a highlight reel or full video of David Roberts' debate with Steve Everley, policy director at Newt Gingrich's shop, American Solutions.
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A brief (stylish, animated) history of fossil fuels [VIDEO]
The conclusion: "Our best goal is resilience: The ability to absorb shocks and keep going." I've long argued that our best goal is laser-guided hovercars (no friction, therefore optimum fuel efficiency), but resiliency's a pretty good goal too.
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China's top-down energy gigantism and a bottom-up American alternative
Instead of envying China for leading on coal plant research, why not focus on what the U.S. does well -- distributed, bottom-up, human-scale innovation?
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Global communications industry has similar global warming effect as aviation
A comprehensive study shows that the IT, telecommunication, media, and entertainment sectors add up to three percent of global carbon emissions.
