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No solar, please — we’re Florida
The Sunshine State, like many of its Southern neighbors, has a long record of putting up barriers to the solar business models that work in other states.
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This architect builds with beer crates and recycled fabric, but don’t call him green
“I have no interest in ‘Green,’ ‘Eco,’ and ‘Environmentally Friendly,’" says Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Shigeru Ban. "I just hate wasting things.”
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Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country
Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source from catastrophically dry parts of the West.
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Teaching a humongous foundation to listen to small farmers
Sam Dryden led the Gates Foundation's farm program for five years, guided less by his background in Big Ag than his upbringing on a hardscrabble Appalachian farm.
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This giant Canadian mine spill doesn’t make us feel good about Alaska’s Pebble Mine
A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.
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Will fracking in the Gulf of Mexico lead to the next Deepwater Horizon?
Deepwater fracking is booming in the Gulf, but nobody has done the research to assess its impact -- and figure out what we need to know when something goes badly wrong.
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Scientists may have found a way to green our electronics with cigarette butts
The discovery could kill two birds with one stone: energy storage and cigarette litter.
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Hey, American CEOs: Who’ll be the first to lead on climate change?
Calling the CEOs of Walmart, Pepsi, Microsoft, and Google, GE, FedX, and Starbucks: Step up now, and you'll be paid back with interest.
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Uber and Lyft discover the true meaning of “rideshare”: The carpool
Adding carpool options brings peer-to-peer cab companies closer to being actual rideshares. But will public transit suffer?
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The Detroit Lions launch a stadium recycling campaign with recycled jerseys
For their Wednesday night practice, the Lions' quarterbacks will sport bright-green jerseys made out of recycled plastic bottles.
