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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.
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'Bio-based': organic’s sketchy new cousin
Will the USDA's new "bio-based" label, for products made with renewable ingredients, actually just enable greenwashing?
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Investment is win-win for global economy and climate, Stiglitz argues
Following John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Stiglitz proposes solutions that would heal the economy and the environment in one fell swoop.
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In profound denial, Chamber of Commerce lectures on 'energy reality'
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce dug further into global warming denial, attacking Barack Obama's State of the Union and clean energy goals.
