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Striking images of disconnected streets and unwanted sprawl
Here's images of Florida sprawl, much of the development unfinished for lack of buyers, and all of it within a convenient walk of, well, nothing.
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U.S. home energy efficiency improved since 1970, so why are the bills the same?
A new study shows that despite our advances in technology, we still consume as much energy as we did in the early 1970s.
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How warm was this summer?
Let's look at the surface temperatures in the summer of 2010, which justifiably received a lot of attention.
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Community solar pioneers
After cutting through untold red tape, University Park Community Solar is ready to begin installation on one of the country's first truly community-owned solar power projects. Let's hope the model spreads.
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A Big Coal Ash Problem At Little Blue
This post is the latest in our series of coal ash community profiles. Our work on coal ash unfortunately becomes timely yet again, as news came out this week of a breach at a coal ash impoundment in North Carolina. This week’s profile was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Andrea Sanchez. There is nothing little […]
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Before big China climate conference, new Senate support for clean energy
I’ll be in Beijing later this week, and then on to Tianjin to cover China’s first U.N.-sponsored climate summit, which begins Oct. 4. Before leaving, though, I wanted to note that on September 22, a group of Republican and Democratic senators sent a rare bipartisan signal to the world that the United States has not abandoned the hard work of reducing climate emissions and speeding the clean energy transition.
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Why an additional road tax for bicyclists would be unfair
People who ride bikes are already shelling out more than their share for asphalt. Here's why it makes good economic sense for cities to encourage cycling.
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Meet Generation Hot
Every child born after 6/23/88 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. They will spend the rest of their lives confronting global warming's impacts.
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Climate denialism down, but so is caring about climate
Climate denialism is shrinking, and the U.S. is not among the worst offenders.
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A Kentucky Community Surrounded by Coal Ash
This week’s coal ash community profile was written by Elizabeth Irvin, a Sierra Club Apprentice. For one weekend each year in early May, Louisville, Kentucky, boasts an abnormally high concentration of horses, jockeys, mint juleps, and elaborate hats. Less than ten miles from Churchill Downs, the neighborhood of Riverside Gardens has been dealing with an […]