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This little gizmo lets you know when you’ve stayed way too long in the shower, you jerk
You can set it up to start glaring at you when you've used too much energy.
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Will Bill de Blasio stand up for New Yorkers without cars?
The leading mayoral candidate is known as a progressive, but some of his car-centric transportation ideas are downright regressive.
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The National Review’s worst nightmare: Climate activists might win
While skeptics doubt and cynics yawn, one conservative pundit sees the movement to get colleges and governments to sell their fossil-fuel holdings as a potent threat.
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Africa’s biggest wind farm starts spinning
A new 84-turbine farm in Ethiopia will help keep the country powered when droughts slow hydropower to a trickle.
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18-year-old intern singlehandedly invents a cheap, effective water filter
If you happen to live in a place where moringa seeds are plentiful, it's the sort of thing you could build yourself pretty easily and cheaply.
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Dumbest proposal for improving Keystone XL: Build a bike path
Here is an idea that's so contrary to reason that it's hard to even make fun of.
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A 16th-century Dutchman can tell us everything we need to know about GMO patents
Today's agribusiness patent holders have locked out innovation. The annals of maritime exploration offer a way out. Really!
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Back to the drawing board: Annie Leonard shows us how to solve our planet’s problems
From the people who brought you The Story of Stuff comes a new video in which well-informed stick figures contemplate Earth's big troubles.
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States promise to sell one new EV for every 24 people by 2025
Eight state governments are pledging to improve charging infrastructure.
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Coal-plant owner offers to wash cars after spewing ash over city
The utility will pay to clean vehicles, but not houses, yards, or anything else. It claims coal ash is nothing to worry about. Enviros say au contraire.
