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Secretary of state pick to get $180 million from Exxon
As part of the deal, outgoing CEO Rex Tillerson will “sever all ties with the company to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements.”
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What’s the greenest kind of drink container?
Glass bottles, plastic bottles, or aluminum cans? Advice columnist Umbra Fisk pours forth wisdom.
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Can capitalism, conservation, and cosmopolitanism coexist? Here’s what I learned.
Evidence suggests that there is not just a moral, but a practical imperative to fight poverty.
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How a growing timber business revived a forest
A tiny town in Ecuador was in rough shape until residents and environmentalists came up with a successful business plan.
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The case for putting people before nature
All over the world, environmental groups are trying to figure out how to balance nature and people in carbon-rich biodiversity hotspots.
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How food, forests, and people are connected, in 10 charts
Here's why environmentalists should cheer on the end of poverty.
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What the humble turnip can teach us about economic growth
The root vegetable might have been key to the U.K.'s Industrial Revolution.
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Costa Rica modernized without wrecking the environment. Here’s how.
Not every route to prosperity involves trashing the planet.
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Can Airbnb keep its users from discriminating against each other?
Sharing our resources is one piece of a more sustainable future -- if we can share fairly.
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Is boxed water actually eco-friendly?
Water packaged in cartons instead of bottles is being marketed as "better" for the environment. Is it? Advice maven Umbra Fisk investigates.