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Cars that run on crap, and 9 more green stories to amaze your friends
128-degree weather. Climate denying iPhones. Hair on snakes (just kidding). Don't miss this week's true tales of green.
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The meat industry feels the heat as the sustainable-food movement gains force
Once, the meat industry acted with impunity, confident that its lobbying clout could deflect challenges to its practices. Now it's on the defensive.
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Composting 101 for citydwellers
If you're going to all the trouble to eat locally grown, organic vegetables, it's a shame to truck their remains away to landfill prison when you could be feeding them back to the earth. So why aren't you composting yet?
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The other new EPA rules that could threaten coal plants
There are a number of things brewing at the EPA that are making coal utility executives nervous.
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Death by Growth: what the climate-bill autopsies missed
By now the corpse of the climate bill has been so thoroughly autopsied, that examining it any further seems almost inhumane. A whole army of coroners have weighed in, suggesting an array of possible causes of death: Republican obstructionism, failed presidential leadership, a weak climate movement, the wrong policy approach, the recession. Each one of […]
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Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?
A BP shareholder comes clean on big oil, the true costs of an increasingly dangerous dependency, and why BP may bounce back from this disaster virtually unscathed.
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Risk to kids from toxic pesticides may be underestimated, study finds
A new study sheds light on the murky topic of childhood pesticide exposure.
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Marriage requirement #1: Regrow the rainforest
Some couples get happily engaged in environmental issues by ditching wasteful wedding favors, recycling 400,000 cans to pay for their nuptials, or growing all the food for their reception. But that's all optional. Indonesia is requiring that newlyweds go out on a limb.
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Prop 23 threatens Silicon Valley's newest solar assembly line
American solar companies are building factories in California even though it would be far cheaper to make photovoltaic panels in China. Why? "The ecosystem is here," explains green tech investor Vinod Khosla. But that balmy business climate will change if California voters pass Prop 23 in November.
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Mosque near Ground Zero will be greenest in the nation
The Cordoba House in lower Manhattan will be the nation's first "green" LEED-certified mosque, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin reports at Daily Beast.
