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Celebrating the 1,000th Sierra Club Solar Home
It’s been more than two years since my husband and I installed solar panels on the roof of our home in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. As the months have passed, I’ve […]
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An anti-GMO wave rising from Kauai?
It's just one little Hawaiian island, but it's also a big biotech testing ground, so Kauai's move to regulate could ripple widely.
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The end of Meatpaper and the state of the fleischgeist
Before the feisty magazine bit the dust, it helped bring us a little bit closer to everyone -- and everything -- involved in this carnivorous life.
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Cold justice: Alaska Supreme Court hears college kid’s climate case
Should the atmosphere be considered part of the public trust, a resource essential for our collective survival? That’s one question currently being considered by the Alaska Supreme Court, which earlier […]
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Why is WGBH Legitimizing David Koch’s Climate Change Denial?
Last Wednesday, more than 50 people gathered outside of WGBH — Boston’s public television station and the largest producer of national PBS television content — with 119,000 petition signatures calling on the station to […]
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Norway’s massive oil wealth could be invested in renewables, “change the world”
Norway has more money than it knows what to do with. And while leaders figure out how they want to manage the nation’s roughly $790 billion public pension fund going […]
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Ontario Kills Coal, But Local Renewables Program Falters
It was one of the most ambitious renewable energy programs in the world when it launched in 2009, committing the Canadian province to buy power from thousands of new renewable […]
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How long did the North Dakota oil spill remain undetected?
20,600 barrels of crude oil spilled from a six inch pipeline owned and operated by Tesoro Logistics, according to the company, spreading over 7 acres of a North Dakota wheat […]
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Building a Culture of Mass Resistance to Climate Disruption
Without question, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization essential to the Southern-based civil rights movement of the 1960’s. If SNCC had not come forward, that movement never […]
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Banksy’s latest project shows screaming stuffed animals being taken to slaughter
The street artist is sending a truckload of squealing puppets on a tour of the Meatpacking District.
