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Avett Brothers play benefit show; give me excuse to write about them
Y'all know I love The Avett Brothers something fierce. It's rare that they wander into Grist's purview, so I don't usually get a chance to write about them. However! They recently played a benefit for Terra Nova Community Farm in Portland, Ore. That sounds like something our own Tom Philpott would love!
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Bill McKibben tells Letterman why he's bringing solar back to the White House
Bill McKibben chats with David Lettermen about 350.org, his book Eaarth, and a new tour to bring rooftop solar back to the White House (Jimmy Carter installed panels; Ronald Reagan took them down; and students from Unity College in Maine, where they've been stored, are traveling to Washington to have them put back up). Hard worker, this guy.
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Colorado town won't play nice with bicyclists — but its casino will
You may remember the small town of Black Hawk, Colo., for its recent ban on cycling because bikes were getting in the way of all its casino traffic. Which makes it the perfect destination for a bicycling group's next getaway, says one Black Hawk casino.
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The price of cheap Walmart eggs? Mummified hens and tainted eggs
Atrocious sanitary conditions prevailed within the factory-scale facilities responsible for the egg recall. But the structure of the U.S. food market and the companies that benefit from its consolidation are far more to blame than any one egg tycoon.
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Discovery hostage taker was a population-obsessed eco-wacko
It's not often that natalism makes the news -- and with guns and hostages, no less! But population is in the headlines today thanks to James J. Lee, the eco-wacko hostage-taker.
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New rules push oil inspectors to clean up their act
Damning BP reports, Murkowski concedes, MMS cleans up, California lawmakers nix a ban on plastic bags, and more.
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New Agtivist: Gene Fredericks is thinking inside the city’s big box
They're the bane of urban and suburban areas alike: the vacant, boarded-up K-Marts and Home Depot Expos. But where most people see blight and a waste of space, San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur Gene Fredericks sees opportunity: to grow food. Lots of food. Fredericks' latest venture, Big Green Boxes, offers a new, high-tech, sustainable approach to Feeding the City.
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Creating 625,000 jobs and saving $64 billion through energy efficiency
A major new report finds that a straightforward set of policies aimed at upgrading just 40 percent of the residential and commercial building stock in the United States would create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade and spark $500 billion in
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Moving beyond oil [TRANSCRIPT]
Our expert panel discusses if, when, and how we might transition to cleaner, safer sources of energy.
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Will we ever get off oil? [AUDIO]
If the Gulf oil disaster doesn't make us reconsider crude, then what will? Our expert panel tackles whether and how we'll move beyond fossil fuels.
