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Oak Park test drives a blackout-proof, solar-powered smart grid
Our infrastructure should be as smart as our phones, says Oak Park, Ill., Sustainability Manager K.C. Poulos.
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Could the sharing economy kill public transit?
The guy who brought you NextBus now kind of wants to kill buses altogether.
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Utah Republican proposes bill to prepare for climate-change-worsened wildfires
At the same time, a group of doctors warned Utahns about Salt Lake City's poor air quality.
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Death from above: Chicago’s bird casualties offer clues on climate change
Angry, or just confused, birds launch themselves into Chicago’s skyscrapers in an apparent effort to tell us we’re screwing up the planet.
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Good news for Kabul’s Tourism Bureau: The city’s air is unhealthy, but not full of feces
It is, however, unsafe to breathe.
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Insane pointillist map has 341,817,095 dots — one for every person in the U.S. and Canada
Someone has created a map with a dot for every single person living in the U.S. and Canada. You might not see yourself on it, but trust us, you're there.
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If transit doesn’t run on time, riders may just stop riding
People don't mind crowding so long as the bus or train shows up on time, according to a new study.
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New York’s Sandy-flooded South Ferry subway station is still a useless mess
New photos suggest that it's not going to be ready for use for at least another year, and repairs are expected to run $600 million or more.
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So much hope and so many problems for the L.A. river
After they tore down river wetlands, can the Army Corps be trusted to rebuild?
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Marcellus, N.Y., namesake of the Marcellus shale formation, bans fracking
A unanimous town board vote means that the namesake for the shale formation will never allow it to be fracked.
