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Utah smoothie shop owner charges extra if you don’t love oil
The "I Love Drilling Juice and Smoothie Bar" charges liberals a dollar extra, though it seems doubtful many will show up.
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Idle No More: A primer on the indigenous green movement
The grassroots Idle No More movement is taking on green issues worldwide.
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The road forward from cap-and-trade
After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda Skocpol suggests one way to proceed. It's not a very good one -- so here's an alternative.
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European mammals make like Gerard Depardieu, flee to Russia
New research shows that climate change will expand habitats across Northern Europe for many mammals.
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Sandy aid passes the House, no thanks to a few states
After only 80 days of feet-dragging, real relief is headed for the East Coast.
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Crop insurance claims likely to hit $16 billion in wake of 2012 drought
Raising two questions: Can we cut costs? And: What happens when such drought becomes the norm?
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‘Sustainable communities’ give Glenn Beck nightmares
Glenn Beck made this fun word cloud of his biggest green fears, from "social justice" to "restoration." Thanks, Glenn Beck!
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Broad support and $1 will get a pol a cup of coffee
Public support for action on climate change keeps increasing -- but nothing will happen without a loud, active, well-funded faction threatening to punish intransigent politicians at the ballot box.
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Oh no, the Doomsday Clock didn’t change at all
Despite our inexorably advancing toward massive climate upheaval, the archaic Doomsday Clock stayed at 11:55.
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2012, the hottest year in U.S. history, was one of the coldest years this century globally
Only one year pre-2000 was hotter than 2012, the tenth-hottest in history.
