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Japanese commission: Don’t blame Mother Nature for Fukushima
A lengthy report from a commission tasked with analyzing what went wrong at Fukushima issues its response: everything.
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The new fossil-fuel glut: Less glutty than you think
Michael Liebreich, head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, talks with David Roberts about whether this supposed "oil glut" deserves the hype.
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Mickey Mouse pushes fossil fuels in this 1985 comic book
Matt Novak of Paleofuture has been posting photos of a 1985 Disney comic touting the benefits of oil pipelines and coal. What’s really striking is how much it genuinely sounds […]
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No place is safe from fracking, not even graveyards
No place blessed with an abundance of natural gas is safe from the possibility of fracking — not even cemeteries. In Texas, the president of the cemetery association has already […]
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Tar-sands oil spills should scare the crap out of you
InsideClimate News has published an in-depth series on a million-gallon-plus spill of oil-sands crude near Kalamazoo, Mich. Here are the good bits.
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Spray-on solar windows use teeny tiny solar cells to capture energy
If the Internet has taught us anything, it is that everything is better when it is smaller. Kittens are better than cats. Cake pops are better than cakes. LEGO models […]
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New York says eff you to coal plants
It will soon be nearly impossible to build a coal-fired power plant in New York, thanks to state regulators.
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Power your laptop with your butt
Swedish designer Eddi Tornberg has turned the plight of modern workers — sitting like lazy larvae in front of computer screens all day — into a form of renewable energy. […]
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Mayor Bloomberg uses a full-sized room A/C unit to cool his SUV
It really would be interesting to find out what moral calculus goes into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s environmental decisions. It must go something like “I’m a big city mayor, working hard […]
