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PARK(ing) Day 2010 liberates parking spots for human use [SLIDESHOW]
Today is PARK(ing) Day. In some 140 cities around the planet, humans are taking back some space from cars, using parking spots as mini parks where they play games, do art projects, or just sit and chat.
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Greenpeace: Unfriend Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg if he won't ditch coal [VIDEO]
Greenpeace takes another swipe at Facebook -- for running its new Oregon data center partially on coal -- with an eye-catching animated video calling on viewers to unfriend Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Georgia farmer sued for growing too many vegetables
Local government has caught an organic hobby farmer tomato-red-handed growing a downright offensive number of vegetable plants on his property outside of Atlanta. What's an "acceptable" number of vegetables anyway?
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Americans of both parties support the EPA
A new poll found that 82 percent of Americans support the work of the EPA. And 73 percent support protecting the EPA's authority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from utilities and other major industrial polluters.
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How to find an energy efficient mortgage
Energy efficient mortgages are a potentially transformative tool that rewards homebuyers with well-sealed houses, on the thinking that if your heating and cooling bills are low, you'll have more money to make mortgage payments. A new guide can help you get one.
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Nominee Jacob Lew must take a fresh look at the broken regulatory situation
Jacob Lew heads to the hill for two Senate hearings on his nomination to be the new director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
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Don’t like the climate? Move to Fargo, says author of 'Climatopolis'
A provocative new book from economist Matthew Kahn argues that while it's too late to avoid the major effects of global warming, that's OK because most people will simply move to places that are effectively adapting to the changes. And here we'd been so worried!
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Six Senate races that are critical to the climate fight
There are six key Senate races in which a strong vote for climate action runs a serious risk of being replaced by a global-warming denier.
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Cities lead the way in action to halt climate change
The world's cities -- home to more than half of the human population -- are leading the way to a low-carbon future.
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No, liberals did not 'overreach' on climate
No matter what goes wrong for the Democrats, the Beltway diagnosis is "liberal overreach." The narrative is so familiar it's part of D.C. atmosphere.
