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Wasted food equals wasted energy, new study makes clear
Americans' profligate food-tossing ways waste the energy equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil per year, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Texas. And that figure is probably low, says American Wasteland author Jonathan Bloom.
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In Tianjin, New Urgency Stirs Fresh Hope For Climate Progress
TIANJIN, China – In a gesture that signaled more urgent engagement to cool the planet, the United Nation’s chief climate negotiator today opened this nation’s first international climate conference by sealing a symbolic Great Climate Wall of China with an ancient proverb. Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and climate expert, who in May was […]
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Heritage hypocritically misrepresents scientists' words
The folks at the Heritage Foundation have just turned in quite an editing whopper.
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The exploding-kids climate video everyone's talking about
A British climate group has stirred up a hornets' nest with a darkly humorous (?) video that shows climate doubters being blown up into a bloody mess
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Violent climate video is the opposite of what 10/10/10 is about
A new video from misguided activists shows schoolchildren blown up for not believing in climate change. We at 350.org think it's disgusting.
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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 […]