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When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all "tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by

Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah's Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale

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All the regulatory paper shuffling required to get the 240 MW Cape Wind project started is finally coming to an end.

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Spun out of synthetic, high-density polyethylene fibers that give it its characteristic durability and lovable crinkly texture, Tyvek is a surprisingly polyvalent material, though it's typically thought of as house wrap.

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A few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability—exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened?

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I've been thinking a lot about scale recently. "Small is Beautiful" has long been a rallying cry of the green movement—and yet in light of the massive challenges we face, I'm thinking we shouldn't turn our backs on "big" either.

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When I wrote about the NRDC's new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming, the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingl

Chalk it up to eco-awareness, The Great Recession, or increased availability of pregnancy prevention methods but people in the US are having fewer kids. News stats from the National Center for Health Statistics show that for 1,000 people in the US, there are 13.5 births.

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Pulsing with the silver and gold veins of a powerful, artificial intelligence, Theo Kamecke's works look like they belong on the set of an Egyptian-themed sci-fi film.

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Prompted by 2009's bird-related crash-landing of an airplane onto the Hudson River, last month New York City officials went ahead with a plan to euthanize more than 170,000 Canadian gees