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Now bike messengers will run lights to deliver your Amazon
Drones are out, cyclists are in for the company's latest strategy to undercut brick-and-mortar.
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No one sucks on climate change like Australia, mate
Performance index released at Lima climate talks puts Denmark in the best-performing slot, followed by Sweden and Britain.
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Here’s why the Freedom Tower isn’t the greenest building in America after all
Under pressure to get a publishing giant into the iconic tower, the site's developers may have sacrificed a core part of its green plans.
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Updates on things I’m obsessed with
The latest on: the Supreme Court and an exciting FERC order; Peabody Energy and a misguided constitutional scholar; and coal export terminals and why we don’t need more.
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Coal giant exploits the global poor to save its own hide
Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, is trying to pitch itself as a friend of poor people. Oh, the ironies abound.
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The Supreme Court has no time for BP’s BS
SCOTUS denied the oil giant's request to take another look at the Deepwater Horizon settlement.
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We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
And we should, even if that means -- gasp! -- using synthetic fertilizers.
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Whales start pulling their own weight, save us for a change
Tar-sands pipeline construction in Canada was halted over concerns about the habitat of endangered beluga whales.
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The last holdout among big palm oil businesses joins no-deforestation pledge
That means 96 percent of global palm oil production is now committed to better practices. Next step: making sure the promises are kept.
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From Hazard to Flippin, White House promotes local food in awesomely named towns
$800,000 for food-system improvements may be peanuts on a federal scale, but even peanuts can make a difference at the local level.
