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Bay Area hands out $3 million to install home electric car chargers
20 Blink commercial charging stations will be installed around the Bay Area.Photo: BlinkHere’s a mid-week dispatch from the green evolution in California. The Bay Area Air Management District on Wednesday granted $3.9 million to four companies as part of an effort to roll out electric car charging stations in 2,750 homes, as well as 30 […]
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How the next farm bill could plant a new crop of farmers
Microloans could encourage young people to become farmers.Photo: Chewonki Semester SchoolUSDA Secretary Tom Vilsack recently called for 100,000 new farmers — a recognition that the U.S. farm population is aging rapidly. To create a revitalized, sustainable, and socially just food system, we need to cultivate a new generation of farmers — and quickly. But starting […]
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E.U. carbon fraud: Could it happen here?
Cross-posted from Sightline’s Daily Score blog. Europe’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) cap-and-trade system has taken a somewhat undeserved drubbing in the press. Overall, it has functioned reliably and reasonably efficiently. Most of the alleged “Carbon Fraud!” you hear about in some quarters was really just easily fixable design flaws (like an initial over-allocation of allowances); tax payment […]
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Is this the Amazon checkout of the future?
This concept for choosing a shipping method shows what rethinking design can do for the environment.
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Smart appliances are coming! (Some day)
The time when your refrigerator can have an intelligent conversation with the local utility's smart grid could finally be on the horizon.
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White House pressured Vilsack to approve GMO alfalfa, media reports suggest
According to reports from Wall Street Journal ag-policy reporters and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, the USDA's recent decision to green-light GMO alfalfa was based on political pressure from the White House. Brings back memories of the Clinton and Bush administrations, when ag policy toed the the agrichemical industry line.
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Matt Ridley’s optimistic, but not so rational, take on bee collapse
The Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley tries to debunk beekeepers' worries about a Bayer pesticide, but government scientists are concerned too.
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Matt Ridley’s optimistic, but not so rational, take on bee collapse
The Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley tries to debunk beekeepers' worries about a Bayer pesticide, but government scientists are concerned too.
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Is blindness on clean air, climate change, and public health contagious?
Some 123 members of the House of Representatives have cosponsored bills to strip the EPA of its authority on the Clean Air Act.
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Tea Party-backing Koch Industries is major carbon polluter
Here is an estimate of the carbon footprint of the Kochs, based on the pollution generated by its activities and from the use of its products.
