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Organic beer: Here to stay, or barley there?
In our recent guide to sustainable beer, we dismissed organic beer as a minor concern. We revisit it to learn we only barely tapped the keg.
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Fukushima meltdown’s latest victims: American uranium jobs
The feds are shutting down a Kentucky facility that enriches uranium as the world shies away from nuclear power.
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Zen and the art of bridge maintenance
When it comes to U.S. transportation infrastructure, we'd rather build new roads than deal with the old ones -- or the bigger questions about how we get around.
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This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter
Of course, you have to do the work of pedaling.
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Chemical creep: Farmers return to pesticides as GMO corn loses bug resistance
As the crop-ravaging rootworm grows immune to Monsanto's Bt corn, farmers go back to spraying pesticides to protect their crops.
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Utilities for dummies, part 2: Why we need competitive electricity markets (with fennec foxes!)
The electricity system is currently set up as a dumb commodity system to provide cheap power. What we need is a smart system to provide energy services. To get there, we have to change utilities.
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Connecticut Senate passes GMO-labeling bill
A similar bill is advancing in Maine. But the states are moving cautiously, afraid of triggering lawsuits from the food and ag industry.
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New Energy Secretary Moniz is all about energy efficiency
Efficiency needs to move "way, way up in our priorities," Moniz said in his first speech as secretary. He's also been meeting with lawmakers to advance energy-efficiency legislation.
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Federal officials hampering Texas fertilizer explosion investigation
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is trying to figure out why a fertilizer plant exploded last month, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is getting in the way.
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Could a Chinese carbon cap pave the way for a global climate deal?
China has proposed firm limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, seriously weakening one of the U.S.’s go-to excuses for climate inaction.
