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New small hydro could add significantly to state renewable power
Over at Climate Progress, Stephen Lacey recently asked why there isn’t more development of micro hydro in the U.S., given its potential to provide more than 30,000 low-cost megawatts of […]
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Utility fights dirty in city's battle for clean local energy
In just three weeks, citizens of Boulder, Colo., will vote on whether to begin a big, formal process to unplug from Xcel Energy’s system and plug into local energy self-reliance. […]
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What do banana peels and coal ash have in common?
Americans want strong protections against toxic coal ash — that’s why they submitted more than 450,000 public comments during the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) process to put long-overdue protections in […]
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Breaking: Obama pushes huge free trade deals to Wednesday vote
If you thought President Obama’s expressions of sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement meant he was suddenly going to stand up for “the 99 percent” and their planet, think […]
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SolarShare bonds let citizens make money by financing local solar
You’re an earth-friendly person and want to go solar, but a large tree shades your house; or you’re a renter; or you don’t have $20,000 to drop on a solar […]
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Discarded glass bottles can be used to clean up water
Unless you're stranded on a desert island, you should not throw empty glass bottles in the water. But you SHOULD apparently grind up those bottles, mix the ground glass with lime and caustic soda, and put that in the water to clean out toxic heavy metals.
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The Occupy Movement, winning victories and November 6
I haven’t felt like this since Seattle and the birth of the global justice movement in the USA 12 years ago. Because of the Occupy Wall Street action and the […]
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Texas aims to pollute the nation
It almost seems like Texas is proud of the fact that it has some of the worst air quality in the nation. The state recently filed yet another lawsuit against […]
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Food Studies: Can we prove Malthus wrong?
After a year of plant science studies, the agricultural landscapes of Laos are a call to revolution. Green revolution.
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How to fork Wall Street over
Where does food fit into the Wall Street occupation? From the pizza deliveries to the impact our banking system has on agricultural policy -- we used Storify to compile the latest!
