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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?

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.

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 […]

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.

Risk to kids from toxic pesticides may be underestimated, study finds

A new study sheds light on the murky topic of childhood pesticide exposure.

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.

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.

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.

The smart bike that pedals and twitters across America

Humans think they've got the market cornered on electronic communication, but a twittle bird told us that's no longer the case. See what we mean.

Dust Bowl 2: Drought detective predicts drier future for American Southwest

If you’re one of the tens of millions of people who live in the southwestern United States, get ready for drier weather. That’s the message from Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa