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Susanna Rustin
Hope alone won’t halt climate change but Al Gore’s latest film highlights the role optimism can play
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Climate change
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Renewable energy isn’t just cutting costs, it’s saving lives.
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Analysis: Why climate change isn’t our biggest environmental problem, and why technology won’t save...
Why Climate Change Isn’t Our Biggest Environmental Problem, and Why Technology Won’t Save Us
August 17, 2017
Reposted with permission from Ecowatch.
Our core ecological problem is...
Beer is the greenest beverage.
Henry David Thoreau once said that a glass of beer would “naturalize a man at once — which would make him see green, and, if he...
Climate lessons from California.
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Can business save the world from climate change?
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EPA erred in denying renewable fuel hardship exemption: Courts.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used too strict of a test when it denied Sinclair Oil Corp's request for an...
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