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Sting refuses to play at tree-killing concert venue
A mall/arena in the Philippines was going to kill 182 trees. So tree lover Sting said, OK, I'm not playing there.
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Meaty dialogues: Film tour prompts real talk on the future of food
Talk about perseverance. Although his film was released over a year ago, the director of "American Meat" is showing his documentary about farm alternatives to young people in 100 cities and towns this fall.
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Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?
A veteran urban farmer in Detroit explores the relationship between the work he does and the city's move toward gentrification.
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The air in Italian cities has a lot of drugs in it
Not enough to get you high, but, you know, at least you're in Italy. Don't get greedy.
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Comparing Residential Solar Ownership to a Solar Lease
If you’re in one of the larger solar markets in the country (California, New Jersey, etc) then “going solar” doesn’t mean going it alone. You can likely get a “zero […]
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Climate silence: It’s the right, stupid
There's a lot being written about the absence of climate change from the presidential race. Blame the conservative movement's Obama-era lurch away from sanity.
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New York is rehabilitating criminals using bees
Prisoners are being taught the basics of beekeeping. The idea being, one supposes, that after they get out of jail they will start selling honey instead of drugs.
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Is this beluga really trying to talk like people?
This definitely sounds more like human speech than whalesong! Though it sounds more like a vuvuzela solo than either.
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This teen built his own tiny home so he could move out of his parents’ house
Austin Hay, 17, has finished building a 130-square-foot house that will keep him from needing a mortgage when he's not, you know, 17.
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2012 or 1988?
1988. That was the year of James Hansen’s now famous congressional testimony on climate change. It was also the first year that climate change came up in the presidential debate […]
