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Koch brothers jump into Prop 23 fight
A company controlled by the billionaire Koch brothershas donated $1 million to the campaign to suspend California's global-warming law.
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California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap
The Golden State failed to ban plastic bags and may reverse its landmark climate bill AB 32, but it's also adding solar panel capacity like crazy.
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Friday music blogging: Arcade Fire
You can bet an artist is grappling with questions of place and home and belonging when she belts out a line like, "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small / that we can never get away from the sprawl ... Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains / And there's no end in sight."
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Mariner Energy cited for two violations in past six months, totaling $55,000
I know that you are shocked to learn the owner of the offshore oil platform that exploded yesterday in the Gulf had two violations just this year
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The environmentalist's paradox: we do better while the earth does worse
More people have more money, health, mobility, food, and security than ever before in human history. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t.
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Latest Gulf oil well explosion was no disaster, but what does it say about offshore drilling?
Thursday's fire in the Gulf had little in common with the BP disaster, but critics of offshore drilling say it highlights how risky the practice is.
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Six ways to save time and energy in the kitchen
Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to get your kitchen organized. Here are some tips that will help you cook delicious meals from scratch quickly and easily, and waste less of that seasonal produce you're buying.
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Inhofe "Inception"
The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team’s favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big Oil’s MVP? Also this week — updates on tar sands, heat waves & a climate denier’s flip-flop. Watch this week’s NWF Climate Capsule! (Don’t worry […]
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It (almost) can't get more local than growing at the grocery store
Are farmers markets not fresh enough for you? Do you love the experience of walking down aisles of food which the grocery store can offer but cringe at the miles and minutes it took for your dinner to reach you? Then Agropolis may be for you!
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Buy a breath of 'Fresh Air' in Hong Kong
Oxygen bars are so Japan circa 1997. Huffing canisters of "Fresh Air" is where it's at. Take a look at the breezy infomercial.
