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By doubling its local-food purchasing in 2012, Bozeman's Community Food Co-op joins the growing ranks of institutions around the country successfully connecting eaters with local farms.
With a key tax credit for the wind industry due to expire on Dec. 31, the main wind advocacy group says a phaseout of the credit would be OK.
The president has proposed adding more than 2,700 square miles to a marine sanctuary off the coast of Northern California. Otters rejoice.
Patriot Coal has agreed to a deal to stop mountaintop-removal mining, which the company says "will result in a reduction of our environmental footprint."
In the energy world, centralized technologies and institutions are giving way to dispersed, networked, small-scale solutions. It's exciting.
A reader wonders if it’s unethical to hang on to Big Oil stocks, and if shareholder activism does any good. Umbra offers some centsible advice.
The president spent his first four years lining up a promising urban policy agenda. Now it’s time for a full-court press for smart growth.
Seeking to drill in a disputed region controlled by Kurds, one battle has already erupted over fuel.
A new study suggests a link between rising food allergies and our ubiquitous and beloved pesticides.