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Sweden recycles so effectively that it has to import garbage to incinerate
Which is what you might call a mixed blessing.
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Chevy isn’t losing $49,000 on every Volt it sells, for God’s sake
Reuters bungles basic math, claiming Chevy loses $49,000 for every Volt it sells. Wrong: Allow us to explain using some sort of odd analogy about baskets.
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This is what air pollution sounds like
One of the terrifying qualities of modern pollution is that you can’t always see it. In old pictures of industrial cities, the pollution was disgustingly apparent. But today, pollution is often invisible, even though it’s no less dangerous. Aaron Reuben and Gabriel Isaacman have come up with a way for people to feel pollution more […]
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To pay fines from the Gulf spill, BP is selling oil fields in the Gulf
Grist classifieds: Gulf oil fields, barely used, motivated British seller.
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Shell starts drilling, hasn’t ruined the Arctic yet
More than 24 hours after Shell started drilling off the coast of Alaska, the company has yet to spill oil all over everything.
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Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak
A team of scientists, engineers, and a dentist designed a nylon polymer beak that would perfectly replace the eagle's lost upper mandible.
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U.S. sees a spike in solar installation over last three months
The 742 megawatts of solar power installed during the summer is the second-largest amount installed in one quarter.
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Small-scale, distributed renewables: Tiny, but growing fast around the world
Small-scale, locally owned power (mainly solar) is spreading quickly and has enormous potential.
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Shocker: The oil that Isaac washed up on the Gulf Coast is from the BP spill
Literally no one saw this coming. BP, for example, was staggered.
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Utilities beat back community solar bill in California
A bill that would have let anyone in California buy power from small-scale, local renewable projects was killed by big investor-owned utilities.