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‘Peer-to-peer’ lending cuts out the Wall Street middlemen
Social lending outfits allow you to loan money to actual humans, providing a leg up for people who really need one.
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Former Trader Joe’s CEO: Let them eat cake — as long as it’s cake we weren’t going to eat ourselves
Doug Rauch is starting a store where poor people can buy the stuff rich people didn't want to eat.
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Entire food system may be contaminated with BPA and other plastic nasties
We can try to minimize our exposure to phthalates, but a new study suggests we're all eating plastic chemicals anyway. Yes, even the vegans.
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Shell to ‘pause’ Arctic drilling in 2013
Shell says it needs more time to figure out how best to drill the hell out of Alaska's offshore areas.
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Nine reasons China won’t need enough coal to justify coal ports in the Pacific Northwest
U.S. coal companies justify the push for coal export terminals in the U.S. Northwest by claiming that China's appetite for coal is endless. A new report shows that they are wrong.
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BP testifies: We knew about ‘big risk’ of explosion
A top BP official tells the court that the company knew there was a "big risk" of a Deepwater Horizon disaster before it happened.
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Why shouldn’t you eat horse?
It's cheap, healthy, and legal, so why don't American meat-eaters want to tuck into some pony?
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Seattle ‘green’ consultants sell out for coal money, whine
The push to ship coal out of Pacific Northwest ports is one of biggest climate fights of our time. Those on the wrong side deserve to be called out and scorned.
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Pesticides are killing off America’s birds
Pesticide use is the leading cause of a nationwide decline of grassland bird species, beating out habitat loss, according to a new study.
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Global food giants get bad grades on environment and ethics
A new report from Oxfam finds that multinational processed food purveyors don't treat their workers or the environment very well.
