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Wonder why climate bills stall in the Senate? Follow the money

Since January Big Oil has spent $75 million lobbying Congress. Brad Pitt says he'd reconsider the "death penalty" for BP. And more...

Grassroots financing is underwriting a new crop of neighborhood businesses

In the summer of 2008, business partners Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting were making plans to open a bookstore in Brooklyn. Their chosen neighborhood, Fort Greene, was over the moon at the prospect. For years, residents had been clamoring for a bookstore, repeatedly citing it as their top need in surveys conducted by the […]

With salmonella recall expanding to half a billion eggs, it's time to rethink ‘efficiency'

No one can say the egg industry isn't efficient. With the 10 largest producers owning 135 million hens, they can poison millions in a single swoop.

Are the floods in Pakistan and the wildfires in Russia related? [AUDIO]

Extreme weather has been grabbing headlines lately. Dr Trenberth explains the dynamics at work and the huge implications of climate change

Isolated green buildings won't save the planet, TEDsters argue

Everyone in the green-buildings world already understands this -- if they're halfway informed and halfway honest. Who exactly are the writers refuting? Real-estate marketers.

More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids

UC Berkeley researchers have been studying the relationship between pesticide exposure and attention problems in children living in California's Salinas Valley, aka America's "Lettuce Bowl." Not surprisingly, they're at much higher risk for ADHD.

Get your granny hip to climate change [VIDEO]

We could probably all stand to talk a little more to our friends and family about why climate change matters. But who would be willing to sit through all that just to spend time with you? Your grandparents, of course.

Gloom alert: Fossil fuels and climate change still suck

The investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion continues against a backdrop of some less-than-peppy news about our climate and energy future.

Ask Umbra’s advice on sustainable campuses and school fundraisers

Umbra gives guidance counseling on how to green your keg-stand campus and raise greener money for a student organization.

Is the U.S. the most overpopulated country on the planet? [VIDEO]

Does it really make a difference to global sustainability if Americans have fewer kids? Damn straight, says William Ryerson of Population Institute.