Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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You’re obsessing about the wrong home energy uses
Scholars are trying to figure out why we're so misinformed about the differing footprints of household appliances -- and how we might do better.
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California Senate candidate: “We’re all going to die”
Mike Beitiks is running on a "single board platform": He's all climate, all the time.
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Detroit turns the lights back on with a solar experiment
A Detroit neighborhood that lost its streetlights because it couldn't afford the bill tests a solar-powered alternative.
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How one N.Y. museum is already prepping for the next big flood
The new Whitney Museum on the Hudson offers a glimpse of architecture's future: It's built like a bunker to ride out assault by a warmer global climate.
