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Want to breathe new life into your city? Build a fence around it
Protecting local farms can be a recipe for urban revival, if Portland is any indication. Of course, that's easier said than done.
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Night or day, this solar power plant always turns us on
The Gemasolar plant regularly provides nonstop solar power even after the sun's gone down or your lady-love leaves you.
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This app will help you buy stores’ leftover food for cheap
Supermarkets plug in their excess food inventory along with a discounted price and time of availability.
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Pipeline builder says oil spills can be good for the economy
Kinder Morgan, which is pushing to expand a tar-sands pipeline in Canada, says that "spills can have both positive and negative effects" on local economies.
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What happens to Fido when fracking comes to town?
Does fracking pose a threat to our household pets? A new book compiles anecdotes and lays out the issues.
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The men who poisoned Charleston’s drinking water now have a “new” business
A January chemical leak from Freedom Industries left 300,000 people without water supplies. Now Freedom is reforming under a different name.
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Bird lovers to sue feds for letting wind farms kill eagles
The Obama administration is trying to encourage wind power, but some wildlife advocates say it's going too far.
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If the Chamber of Commerce wants to raise the gas tax, it should stop backing Republicans
The big-biz trade group keeps supporting candidates who refuse to fund infrastructure, even though corporations rely on roads and bridges.
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Showdown at the organic standards board meeting
Behind protest chants and an arrest, an obscure rule change. And behind that, a fight for the purity of a movement.
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Chicagoans fight the Kochs and their petcoke
The city stopped short of banning piles of petcoke, a tar-sands refining waste. Now activists and officials are trying to get rid of the piles with lawsuits.
