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Michigan: Outgoing Gov. Jennifer Granholm on creating wind energy jobs
In Michigan, our big, hairy, audacious goal is to make our state the international hub of the clean energy industry, creating jobs by transforming Michigan from rust belt to green belt.
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Greenpeace: Unfriend Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg if he won't ditch coal [VIDEO]
Greenpeace takes another swipe at Facebook -- for running its new Oregon data center partially on coal -- with an eye-catching animated video calling on viewers to unfriend Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Don’t like the climate? Move to Fargo, says author of 'Climatopolis'
A provocative new book from economist Matthew Kahn argues that while it's too late to avoid the major effects of global warming, that's OK because most people will simply move to places that are effectively adapting to the changes. And here we'd been so worried!
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Notorious agribiz giant Monsanto hired notorious ‘security’ firm Blackwater
Monsanto hired one of Blackwater's shell companies to monitor activist websites, and the Blackwater offshoot offered to infiltrate activist groups.
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Chinese solar firm lands big airport deal
Denver International Airport's 4.4-megawatt array will be Colorado's largest commercial solar project. But what's most notable is its Chinese builder.
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Feds target energy efficiency scofflaws
The Department of Energy is enforcing its own energy efficiency and water standards for products from light bulbs to shower heads, siting 27 companies
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Death by McDonald's [VIDEO]
A group of U.S. doctors has a morbid new ad aimed at taking a bite out of Americans' fatal attraction to fast food. Watch the short ad.
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'High-fructose corn syrup'? Never heard of it
Consumers turning against your product? Change its name on ingredient lists! Buh-bye, much-maligned HFCS, and hello, sweetly natural "corn sugar."
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'Habitual violator' Jack DeCoster may secretly be largest U.S. chick magnate
By the standards of the U.S. egg industry, Jack DeCoster looks at first glance like a relatively small player. But when you unravel his companies' tangled ownership chain, the infamous factory-farmer emerges as the rooster of the hen yard.
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The dog ate my sustainability report
On my first day in the classroom teaching high school math many years ago, I looked around at the dazed faces in my 7:00 AM class, and I had an epiphany: if I try to teach these guys math straight up, they won’t learn a single thing. But if I make the class into a […]
