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This tandem bike shrinks to a solo one for after you’ve been dumped
Calfee Design makes some pretty sweet bamboo bikes, but now it's even anticipating your change in Facebook relationship status.
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Can the pot industry make buds with sustainability?
Washington's legal marijuana boom could be a carbon bust. Some enterprising growers on Vashon Island hope to change that.
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Birthday, it’s ya birthday: Fracking technology turns 65
We’d personally like to take this moment to remind all the fracking wells out there that they’re now eligible for a free beverage at Taco Bell.
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Alabama wetland still infested with oil, four months after train accident
An oil train derailed and exploded in a swamp in November, and the area remains a big, smelly mess.
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Judge rejects latest Koch-led bid to snuff out Cape Wind
Offshore wind energy just won a big court battle, and wind opponent Bill Koch took one in the crotch.
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Keystone XL and the energy rush that could change America forever
A sneak peak at a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist's new book about the tar-sands oil rush.
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Will frackers cause California’s next big earthquake?
More than half of the wastewater injection wells being used by frackers in the state are within 10 miles of a recently active fault.
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Blacking out America would be a cinch, because there’s not enough distributed solar
America could go dark for up to 18 months if terrorists struck a few key points along the grid. Small-scale solar could make the system more resilient.
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Congress backpedals, restores cut-rate flood insurance for risky homes
Two years ago, Congress yanked subsidies for risky coastal flood-insurance policies. Lawmakers recently gave them back.
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Coal companies get hit where it counts for polluting Appalachian water supplies
The second largest coal producer in the nation just got dinged more than $200 million for habitually breaking clean water laws. That's gotta hurt.
