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IBM lets you use your laptop to solve the global water crisis

Your laptop can join IBM's Worldwide Community Grid, a global network of linked personal computers that's doing important water experiments.

A new play on climate change hits London [AUDIO]

Global warming is center stage at Britain's National Theater, in the new play Earthquakes in London. PBS speaks with Rupert Goold, the award-winning director

California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families

Proposition 23 will threaten all Californians' health and safety. But the Latino community will suffer disproportionate harm from a repeal of AB 32.

Meat eating can be an environmentally friendly choice, argues George Monbiot

Vegans have long been the ornery saints squatting cross-legged at the intersection of the food and environmental movements. But a new book has persuaded George Monbiot, for one, that there is a way to eat meat and dairy with a clean conscience.

The greatest wannabe junk food on the planet — 'extreme baby carrots'

If only vegetables had bright packaging, adrenaline-packed commercials, and millions of dollars for marketing campaigns! Maybe then they could compete with the glitzy success of junk food. Or they could go the route of "baby carrots" and pretend they're junk food anyway.

Coal industry flack combines chutzpah and illogic into tasty agitprop stew

A letter to The New York Times from Steve Miller, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, is dense with illogic and deception.

Stupid goes viral: The Climate Zombies of the new GOP

Virtually all Republican congressional candidates criticize what they call "cap-and-tax," but how many actually deny climate change science? A lot.

Can Oakland plant a policy revolution to match its grassroots efforts?

Unlike in Seattle or San Francisco, urban ag projects in Oakland have flourished through benign neglect.

Obama: Rebuild America by slashing oil tax breaks

The president says we can create jobs by fixing the country's infrastructure but he wants to slash Big Oil tax breaks to help pay for it. Uh-oh.

Colorado governor’s race: Hickenlooper vs. Maes vs. Tancredo

Colorado gubernatorial candidates: a mayor who's promoted biking; a Tea Partier who thinks bike-sharing is a U.N. scheme; or a third-party candidate who only talks about immigration.