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A new way to grow peas: in your lungs

Nowadays growing food is totally hip, delicious, and sure to appease the most Frugal Freddy. But this is the weirdest place we've ever heard of growing food.

New Walk Score assumes you won’t swim to the grocery store

A great tool gets better.

Colorado Springs goes dark, Lexington goes bright

Dickens begins his novel with the famous line “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Were he writing today about the two American cities -- Lexington, Mass. and Colorado Springs, Colo. -- he might say, “It was the brightest of towns, it was the dimmest of towns.” In this case, bright and dim refer quite literally to light levels, but also to the decision making of two very different sets of civic leaders.

Arid El Paso makes every drop count

Deep in the desert, El Paso has found a way to conserve its precious water. Despite a growing population, water usage has actually gone down.

Wading into a water war between two countries and two states

Ed Archuleta, of the El Paso Water Utilities, had to figure out how to make water resources last while sharing them with Mexico and another state.

Please eat this fish to extinction

In the recent wave of goodwill toward the ocean, some people are channeling the Noah's Ark approach to saving sea life while others are channeling Hungry Hungry Hippos. Check out this snack-rifice.

Will China steal the U.S. thunder by launching cap-and-trade in the next five years?

Just when the U.S. Senate finally admitted to abandoning its plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country’s next five-year plan (2011–15).

Colorado Tea Party candidate struggles to explain U.N.-bicycle conspiracy

Colorado gov Tea Party candidate Dan Maes has argued that Denver's bike-share program is a plan for converting Denver into a UN community. Maes appeared on MSNBC to explain

Does one bad-ass summer prove climate change?

Hellish smog in Russia. Apocalyptic floods in Pakistan. The hottest May through July on record in the parts of the US. Is a "we told you so" in order?

Burning Coal + Hot Days = Unhealthy Air Warnings

Yesterday and today are code orange unhealthy air alert days in the Washington, DC, region where I live. The 95+ degree temperatures and excessive ground-level ozone create extremely unhealthy air – especially for kids, senior citizens, and people with pre-existing health conditions. These aren’t the first days this summer where we’ve had these warnings, and […]