Survey shows 70% of Americans think global warming should be a priority, but...
Let's pretend that there's someone with a gun to your head, and he gives you a hard quantum mechanics problem with two answers, only one of which is correct.
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9 ways business can help save bees
Our economy relies on pollinators more than we care to admit. Here's how the business world can help save them.
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Will Vermont move forward with commercial hemp?
Mat McDermott, now writing at Motherboard, has an interview with Vermont Representative Teo Zagar about about the progress that state has made in moving towards commercial hemp production.
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Name and shame: 8 countries still above European Union air pollution limits
The bad news is that there are still 8 countries - Luxembourg, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, and Finland - that exceed limits on air pollution.
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Crisis for electronics recycling as glass market collapses
Ian Urbina reports at The New York Times on the negative side effects the tech industries shift to flat screen technology has had on the market for recycling old television and computer monitor glass
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Mississippi Utility Wants Public to Pay for Its Coal Boondoggle
MS Power wants the public to pay for massively over-budged Kemper coal plant...and it has national implications.
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How the insurance industry can help fight climate change. Or not!
Last month, I posted about how the insurance industry could help fight climate change. Well, maybe I was too optimistic.
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Obama to use Nixon-era law to fight climate change. Will it work?
President Obama will use NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, as a way to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to use executive power to address climate change when Congress fails to act.
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9 small (and one big) ways that big box stores can go green
Big box grocery stores aren't usually thought of as green. But from "people powered cash registers" to deliveries by barge, there are ways to make them greener.
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Debunking Paul Ryan's energy budget
Think Progress has a good debunking of eight energy-related issues in Paul Ryan's fiscal year 2014 budget.
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The Economist puts the 'sharing economy' on the cover
For years we've been talking about renting or borrowing rather than owning. There are so many things that people own but rarely use...
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UK government to side with insecticide lobby, not bees
Neonicotinoid pesticides have been repeatedly implicated in bee deaths, yet UK ministers look set to oppose a ban.
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Honey laundering exposed as industry giant admits to mislabeling Chinese honey
The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.
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Can Washington D.C. become the greenest city in the U.S.?
The Sustainable D.C. Act of 2012 lists 32 goals, 31 targets, and more than 140 actions aimed to make Washington D.C. the "greenest city in the U.S."
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Obama "cannot in good conscience" approve Keystone XL: NYTimes
In a Sunday op-ed, The New York Times explains why they think President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Measure results, not face-time: More on Marissa Mayer's "Get back to the office" order
Professor of Sociology Jennifer Glass makes some very good points about telecommuting
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Pollution now #1 cause of social unrest in China
This has been building up for years, as China rapidly industrialized and urbanized without much regard for the air, water, and land on which the life of its citizens depend.
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On Chavez, AP misses forest for the skyscraper
An Associated Press report on the death of Hugo Chavez suggests Chavez wasted money on health care when he could have built giant skyscrapers. It's a lesson on our distorted value system.
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How GM earns $1 billion recycling
Forbes reports on how General Motors is recycling or reusing "90 percent of its manufacturing waste."
