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Giant utility company Exelon has a failing business model and a plan to prop it up. Both ratepayers and clean energy will get screwed in the process.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
A Canadian architect thinks we should build skyscrapers out of wood to save the earth and climate a whole lotta hurt.
Radical Mycology cofounder Peter McCoy thinks mushrooms hold the secret to human and environmental health. He may be on to something.
… and five climate hawks who lost.
A refinery town's reputation as an environmental-justice pioneer is in peril, thanks to a pile of oil money and a torrent of negative ads.
Now that everyone and their grandma has done the ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge, India takes it up a notch.
Nathanael Johnson spent six months asking if we could support small farmers, protect the planet, and end hunger. This is what he learned.
Researchers took a microscope to a bunch of German beer. What they found will ruin your whole day.
