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New tool maps and grades 'food deserts' to lure supermarkets
The Reinvestment Fund's PolicyMap layers several types of demographic data to reveal which areas really lack access to food.
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Putting out the recycling could save your life
You've probably heard that recycling can help you "save the planet," but did you know that it could also save your life? That's the lesson two Canadian teens learned after they fell off the roof of their apartment building and into some good luck.
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One-fifth of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna killed by BP oil spill
New satellite data from the European Space Agency shows that 20 percent of juvenile bluefin tuna have been killed by oil.
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School salad bars, and the limits of relying on charity for what government should do
Whole Foods has raised $1.4 million from its customers to invest in salad bars for public schools. The catch: those schools must be within 50 miles of a Whole Foods. For me, the real problem here is the lack of public commitment to provide healthy school lunches.
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Scholastic steps into the Chamber of Hypocrisy
Scholastic, the education company, has teamed up with the Chamber of Commerce to "educate" children about the perils of government energy regulation.
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Lolcats punk Teh Yes Menz punking Chevron
Oh noes! Did LOL kittehs make teh ultamet pranksterz get teh punkings? Translation: Oh no! Did the infamous Lolcats from the pop cat-culture website I Can Has Cheezburger punk the ultimate pranksters, The Yes Men, for their recent Chevron spoof?
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William Lind makes a conservative case for public transit (just not buses)
William Lind thinks Republican politicians should be supporting public rail transit because it makes sense for their affluent (and mostly white) constituency. He also says white conservatives are "not going to be comfortable" on city buses where they are "surrounded by blacks and Hispanics."
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The Aftermath of the TVA Coal Ash Disaster
This is the latest in our series of community coal ash profiles. This was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Philip Hawes. Tennessee’s Emory River has long been treasured for its natural beauty. In 1867, when a young man by the name of John Muir decided to walk from his home in Indiana, all the way […]
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Prop 26′s dirty backers flee from political poison of Prop 23
Millions of dollars are pouring into California's Prop 26, a fail-safe for the possibility that the pro-pollution Prop 23 fails.
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