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Killing young black men like Michael Brown is unsustainable in every sense of the word
In a world that is heating and cooling at increasingly uncontrollable rates, we need more black youth learning how to work with sustainable technology, and less of them in jail or dead.
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Public art, environment, history, and the locals all collide in the Anacostia River
Artist Mia Feuer wanted to submerge a gas station in the river, but locals fought back. We unpack all the reasons why.
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5 things I learned from DOJ’s elder statesman on environmental justice
A chance meeting in a Washington, D.C., bookstore turned into an hours-long conversation. Here are the highlights.
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“I Heart NY” mastermind launches catchy climate change logo
To help make climate change awareness stick (and slick), design legend Milton Glaser created a catchy logo.
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A Las Vegas community garden beats the odds
A silver lining to the economic downturn that brought Vegas to its knees: People may be setting down roots.
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New Orleans school won’t be built atop a toxic dump — for now
A small alumni group from the floundering Walter L. Cohen High School has beaten back a proposal to relocate to a former landfill.
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As residents leave this Detroit street, it sprouts art
The Heidelberg Project is art made of abandoned houses. It has attracted a steady stream of pilgrims -- and now, it seems, arsonists as well.
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The U.S. cities with the worst climate change-related flooding
Rising sea levels have kicked up flood days by as much as 900 percent along parts of the East Coast.
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New Jersey reshuffles Sandy relief dollars, admits to numerous mistakes
The announcement follows an investigation by a scrappy local news site that found that the state’s scorecards for distributing relief money were riddled with errors.
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Mother jailed for letting her daughter run free — at the playground
Debra Harrell let her 9-year-old daughter play unsupervised in an North Augusta, S.C., park. Harrell was arrested and her daughter is in the custody of the state.
