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Food hubs: Sustainable agriculture’s missing link
Before food hubs were trendy, Veritable Vegetable was figuring out how to make the concept work.
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Will Obama do the right thing on ozone and smog this time around?
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
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Can we save Chesapeake Bay from chicken crap?
A bill in Maryland would make poultry producers pay five cents a bird to help protect the bay from chicken-waste runoff.
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Is fracking pollution deforming babies?
Infants born near fracking sites in Colorado were found to suffer from elevated rates of congenital heart defects and neural tube defects.
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Step right up, Big Coal, for America’s Big Coal Giveaway
It's bad enough that the U.S. leases out so many coal tracts. Even worse is that it does so at way-below-market prices, as a new report confirms.
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Compare time and cost of every possible transportation option with a single app
Whatever your favorite travel app is, RideScout probably has it beat.
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Coal plant accident spews coal ash into North Carolina river
Just last month, Duke Energy insisted there was no reason to clean up its coal-ash piles. Oops.
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Future near perfect: How humans can still save the day by 2050
In "The World We Made," green guru Jonathon Porritt writes of a future where we fix the planet with renewable energy, smart food systems, and jetpacks. Bonus: It's all possible. (Except maybe the jetpacks.)
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Teslas drive L.A. to N.Y. in three days, guzzle no gas
Never mind the snow and sleet -- a pair of Tesla Model S electric sedans just made it across the country in 76 hours.
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Shell will stay out of the Arctic this year
Shell announced it won't attempt to drill for oil in the Arctic this year -- and that it's "considering its options" in the region.