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10-year-old’s petition convinces Jamba Juice to stop using styrofoam
Fifth-grader Mia Hansen collected over 130,000 signatures, and the smoothie giant agreed to phase out styrofoam by 2013.
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If you’re building a power plant and it isn’t natural gas, you’re not trendy
And if you're building one that burns oil? Graduate into the 20th century, pops.
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One way to stop coal mining: Cut off the water
Sunrise Coal's plan for a new Illinois mine is being held up by concerns over water use -- bad luck in a drought year.
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This robot has the most swagger of any robot you’ve seen
Yeah, I think I’m comfortable with this country’s research funding going towards developing android swaggerbots. As far as I’m concerned, this could be DARPA’s greatest achievement since the internet.
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Starbucks is turning leftover scones and coffee grounds into useful stuff like plastic
The company is hoping they can come up with something a little more creative and sustainable than the current plan of incineration, composting, or disposal.
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Yet another ship makes it through the ice-light Northwest Passage
Little did European explorers know that they only had to burn a shit ton of coal and then wait a bit in order to discover the fabled route.
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Miners bussed to Romney rally obviously hate Obama, Fox points out
Fox Nation declares that Ohio miners have "turned on" Obama after the mine workers' boss busses them to a Romney rally.
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These floor tiles let you generate energy just by walking around
Great (literal!) strides in renewable energy are being made, by way of an emerging technology called footfall harvesting.
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A correction to our article about Paul Ryan
Apparently, the letter we presented yesterday showing a Paul Ryan request for stimulus funds was forged, since he says he never asked for stimulus funds.
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Natural-gas well explosion near Denver kills one, injures three
The explosion appears to have been from a pressure build-up, as opposed to combustion.
