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Kohl’s gets some unlikely patrons in the form of deer
They were looking for a Marc Anthony leather jacket on sale, but they were ushered out before they could purchase it.
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California County’s PACE Program Could Get Feisty with Feds
Does a Riverside County, CA, residential energy financing program put thousands of homeowners on a collision course with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)? In a proposed rule-making, the FHFA has […]
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Agricultural training ground The Farm School is bucolic, educational, and stupid expensive
Students learn to grow organic vegetables, tend livestock, and manage forests. Only problem? The cost.
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Conceptual artist Christo is building a gigantic sculpture out of oil barrels
It is not a pyramid (although it will be taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza), and it's not a comment on the oil economy.
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Electoral math for ‘all you climate people’
Building a climate movement in urban areas isn't enough. We also need a ground game in the remote corners of swing states where national elections are won and lost.
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Ohio’s Next Big Decision — A Clean or Dirty Energy Future?
Now that the presidential election is over, the people of Ohio are facing another important choice — whether their state will embrace clean energy measures that will save money and […]
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This beautiful waterfall is also essentially a flaming fart
In a park in upstate New York, there's a flame that never goes out. OK, it almost never goes out. But we'll still give it credit for being pretty tenacious, because it lives behind a waterfall.
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We have only 40 years worth of helium left, and we’re wasting it on giant balloons?
We all know what Thanksgiving is about: good food, friends and family, feeling grateful for the blessings in our lives, and gigantic balloons of cartoon characters. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Celebrate Food Workers Week by being uncharacteristically nice at the grocery store
While you're rushing about buying cranberries and sweet potatoes, remember to thank the people who grow, pick, deliver, and prepare your food.
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Oil and gas workers fracked by on-the-job injuries
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.