Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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No solar, please — we’re Florida
The Sunshine State, like many of its Southern neighbors, has a long record of putting up barriers to the solar business models that work in other states.
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Sort of like the love train, but with a rapping polar bear
From Emeryville, Calif., to the Big Apple, by rail, for the big September climate rally. It only takes three days. But there are workshops!
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The little seed library that could … get busted by a state ag department
A modest local effort to build a seed library in Pennsylvania calls down the wrath of the state's farm regulators.
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Will fracking in the Gulf of Mexico lead to the next Deepwater Horizon?
Deepwater fracking is booming in the Gulf, but nobody has done the research to assess its impact -- and figure out what we need to know when something goes badly wrong.