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Time to kill the rooster
There’s a chore I’ve been putting off for some time, that I know will be one of the more unpleasant things I’ve encountered so far on our little farm. It’s time to thin my chicken flock.
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Spill cleanup plans for Arctic ripped as 'thoroughly inadequate'
Desperate to start drilling off the coast of Alaska next year, Shell is working hard to reassure us that they're not BP.
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Veterans Day, the new Earth Day?
It's a provocative argument that a clean-energy revolution depends on the military signing up. The good news is that it already has.
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Even city chickens want rooftop gardens on their coops
You can keep your mother cluckers cooped up -- while you raise the roof with raised garden beds -- with this chicken coop that doubles as a garden.
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Ruin porn, exurban sprawl edition
A while back, Sarah noted the proliferation of Detroit "ruin porn" -- images and films that depict abandoned houses, crumbling factories, and desperately unemployed masses without showing that intelligent life does, in fact, remain in the city. There's something of a parallel trend for sprawl: illustrations of the overbuilt, over-mortgaged empty subdivisions littering exurban America. The implied message is quite often that these places were built carelessly and are unaffordable, unsustainable, and damn near unlovable.
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Fast food wrappers and popcorn bags leach fire-fighting chemical into food
Synthetic chemicals that repel oil and are used on paper packaging to prevent grease leaking, can migrate directly into food.
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Rep. Ed Markey makes bid for ranking spot on Natural Resources Committee
Since his committee on climate change is being disbanded, and action on climate change is almost certain to stall for many years, Rep. Ed Markey is heading over to the Natural Resources Committee, where he can defend the EPA and investigate the oil industry.
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Christie finds the Right’s kingmakers demand orthodoxy on climate change
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brings the latest evidence that there's no room in the Right's top ranks for anything but suspicion of climate science.
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The origins of Boulder's school food makeover: Nowhere to go but up
How Boulder schools went from pushing Ding Dongs and sodas to luring chef Ann Cooper to revamp their entire school-food system.
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The EPA, the Clean Air Act, and U.S. manufacturing
Members of Congress who are committed to helping industry save energy and become more globally competitive should think twice about undercutting existing federal laws that have the potential to spur efficiency upgrades at domestic manufacturing facilities.
