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What Monsanto’s fall from grace reveals about the GMO seed industry
Once the darling of Wall Street and the Darth Vader of the agribiz universe, Monsanto has fallen on hard times. The reason may have to do with the essentially over-hyped nature of GMO technology.
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Google makes big bet on offshore wind power along East Coast
Google is backing an underwater power transmission system that could bring a wind turbine boom to the Atlantic.
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Are Google's self-driving cars actually signs of Transformers' imminent world domination?
The world is pumped that Google is passing mile markers on the road to creating a fully automatic automobile. But let's consider what we got the last time robot vehicles were allowed to freely roam the earth: Transformers.
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Big Oil money pouring back into California to boost Prop 23
The flow of out-of-state oil money into California to block the state's cutting edge greenhouse-gas law keeps getting stronger.
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Green fraud is even more harmful than greenwashing
The Federal Trade Commission proposed guidelines to address greenwashing. It's a worthy effort, but they should go beyond greenwashing and tackle green fraud
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Scathing report on BP oil disaster from presidential commission
The presidential commission on the BP oil spill has issued several draft reports on contentious topics, from dispersants to oil-flow estimates.
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SunChips not-so-quietly buries its noisy compostable bags
Which is noisier: the SunChips compostable bag or the snacklash from chip-eaters who prefer their chips to crunch more loudly than the packaging? For now, it's RIP (but not in a compost pile) for the noisy packaging.
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Obama administration approves first big solar projects to be built on federal land
The Obama administration just leased government land in the California desert for two huge solar power plants, and more solar leases are on the way.
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Stanford student gives $100,000 to No on Prop 23 campaign
Lucy Southworth, Stanford doctoral student and wife of Google co-founder Larry Page, gave $100,000 to California's No on Prop 23 campaign.
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Would a Walmart solve West Oakland's and Nashville's food problems?
Getting fresh, healthy food into low-income urban areas known as "food deserts" isn't as simple as it appears. For example, should food-justice advocates be celebrating when Walmart is the one bringing an oasis of fresh groceries to these deserts?
