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How can I tell if a business is really “green”?
A reader wonders how to suss out a business's eco-cred. Umbra offers a few conversation starters.
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CEOs to world leaders: Get off your asses and fix climate change
Executives from 43 major companies want real progress to come out of the U.N. climate talks in Paris this December.
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Finally, coffee pods that aren’t the absolute worst
A Portland-based coffee company has developed a compostable pod that's compatible with Keurig 2.0 machines.
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4 surprising reasons why clean energy is gaining on fossil fuels
Future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began.
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Angry Birds wants to get you mad about climate change
The makers of the highly addictive game will announce on Earth Day that it is has a new mission: raising awareness about climate change.
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Think commodity corn farmers are evil? Meet a few of them
If you actually sit down and talk with a commodity farmer, they start to sound a lot like the typical small farmer -- only with a gazilion times more corn.
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Could Seattle activists throw a wrench in Shell’s Arctic drilling plans?
Shell wants to use Seattle's port as a staging ground, but citizens and protestors are cooking up plans to block the oil giant's scheme.
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Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, and industry is salivating over it
Oil companies are buying rights to extract crude from bitumen carbonates in Alberta, even though it's hard-to-reach, expensive, and filthy.
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The bright side of California’s drought: More solar power
Less rain means fewer clouds, fewer clouds means more sun, more sun means more solar power.
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Should climate scientists give up flying?
Climate scientists curtailing their air travel would only make a tiny dent in carbon emissions, but a new paper argues they should do it anyway.
