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Jamie Oliver wins Emmy for 'Food Revolution'
Amazingly, given the absence of Snooki or dancing routines, Jamie Oliver won an Emmy Saturday for Outstanding Reality TV Program.
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GOP Wisc. Sen. candidate Ron Johnson is a climate denier
GOP candidates for Senate are rushing to pander to their extremist anti-science Tea Party base by denying even our most basic understanding of climate science. Most notably we’ve seen the dumbing down of Carly Fiorina. The Politico has an article today that examines this trend: Fueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists […]
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From Motown to Growtown: The greening of Detroit
Where factories once flourished, hope sprouts in Detroit's urban gardens and farms, and projects like Greening Detroit.
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Climate change found to be rapidly altering … the English language
The latest words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English show our panic-button solutions to global warming are changing the linguistic climate.
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A global shift to renewable energy: But will it be fast enough?
Despite a global economic crisis, a new energy economy is emerging on a scale that we could not have imagined. And it is a worldwide phenomenon.
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My Intentional Life: Hot Flies in the Summertime
The roomies jackhammer up concrete to make way for a garden. See what happens when that freshly-tilled urban soil meets a rainy summer and feral cats.
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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...
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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 […]
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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.
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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
