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Environment
The Truth Behind The EPA's Animas River Spill Is Messier Than You Think
• popsci.comDespite best intentions, a toxic legacy roars back to life in Colorado
Immortus solar sports car to offer unlimited range on sunny days
• gizmag.comIf you've ever scanned the comments section on an electric car or bike article, you'll be familiar with this complaint: "that's not green, it's just a coal-powered vehicle." .
The EPA: Protecting The Environment? by Ron Paul
• Ron Paul Liberty ReportThe recent EPA massive toxic spill into the Animas River in Colorado highlights the Agency's total incompetence...and maybe worse. Should we still trust the government to protect us?
Navajo Nation Vows To Hold EPA Accountable...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenNavajo Nation Vows To Hold EPA Accountable As Colorado River Poisoner Identified
This Year's Speed Week At The Bonneville Salt Flats Is Cancelled...Again
• popsci.comWe'll always have 1937
The Social Cost of Capitalism
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.orgFew, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties.
Pope's climate push at odds with U.S. Catholic oil investments
• https://ca.news.yahoo.comThis discrepancy between the church's leadership and its financial activities in the United States has prompted at least one significant review of investments.
Company Seeks To Make Roads Out Of Recycled Plastic
• True ActivistThe company VolkerWessels, based out of Rotterdam, in Holland has proposed an exciting new idea that could help to recycle the tons of plastic trash that clutters the world's oceans.
America's First Hemp House Pulls CO2 From The Air!
• True ActivistThe gorgeous, eco-friendly home costs only $133 per square foot to build.
US Environmental Protection Agency Ironically Spills Toxic Waste Into River
• True ActivistThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal organization in charge of fining and arresting people and companies for damage done to the environment, spilled over a million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas river in Colorado this week.
Kickstarter QuikByke Hopes To Rent Out Electric Bikes From Solar Powered Shipping Containers
• insideevs.comOK, y'all may not know how cheap we are here at InsideEVs, but we're cheap.
Eerie photos of the Australian mining town where thousands of people live underground
• Business InsiderIn Coober Pedy, located on the Stuart Highway, in Southern Australia, almost all of its 2,000 residents live underground.
Study claims perovskite solar cells can recoup their energy cost within three months
• gizmag.comScientists at Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy have found that perovskite cells, one of the most promising solar technologies of recent years, can repay their energy cost over 10 times faster than traditional silicon-based so
White House Plan Calls for Even Greater Greenhouse Gas Reductions
• http://www.usnews.com, By Alan NeuhauserThe final version of the EPA's Clean Power Plan is even more ambitious than anticipated.
Around the world, more people are eating one type of food -- and it's bad news for the planet
• Business InsiderPeople around the world are eating way more red meat.
The Apache vs. Rio Tinto
• http://www.thenation.com, By Rick KimbrellThe San Carlos tribe is fighting to block a massive mining project that would cut a two-mile wide crater through sacred land.
What's The Carbon Footprint of The PopeMobile?
• LewRockwellThe Pope, it's said, wears Prada. And travels by Mercedes, too. But apparently, he'd prefer you (and millions of other ordinary human beings) not.
Protesters Forcibly Removed by Police As Arctic Drilling Ship Escapes Blockade
• http://www.commondreams.orgAfter blocking vessel for nearly two days, activists said to be 'tired and hot, but filled with gratitude'
Photos: 'Mutant Daisies' Found In Fukushima 'Safe Zone'
• naturalsociety.comDisturbing photos reveal Fukushima dangers
This Mega-Structure Sucks CO2 Emissions Out of Thin Air
• http://www.trueactivist.comYou've probably been drowning in all the news about global warming. The fact of the matter is, our carbon pollution is currently damaging our ecosystem and causing great concern for future generations.
On Green Energy, Ethiopia Leaves U.S. in the Dust
• http://www.truthdig.comPresident Obama's state visit to Kenya and Ethiopia has involved a good deal of scolding of those countries by Western pundits.
Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
• BBCA lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".
This Lamp Will Burn All Night Powered By Nothing More Than Salt Water
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe SALt Lamp uses a free and abundant resource to reduce fire risk from candles and replace the cost of traditional lighting.
The First Offshore Wind Farm In The US Is Finally Being Constructed
• http://www.trueactivist.comAfter many years of political and bureaucratic hurdles, the first offshore wind farm in the US is finally being built.
Obama Clears Shell to Drill in Arctic--With One Restriction
• http://www.truthdig.comPresident Obama has removed one of the last obstacles to oil drilling in the Arctic and granted Shell permission to develop new exploratory wells that could bring the company enormous profits.
Recession Cut US Emissions, Not Falling Coal Use
• http://www.truthdig.comLONDON, 21 July, 2015 Between 2007 and 2013 emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burnt in the US fell significantly ? by about 11% ? and many analysts credited this to a change from coal to natural gas in electricity production.
Arctic ice 'grew by a third' after cool summer in 2013
• http://www.bbc.com, By Matt McGrathThe volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.
Plastic road surface might be streets ahead of asphalt
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick LavarsAsphalt covers more than 94 percent of the paved streets in the US, but have we gone down the wrong road with our choice of building material?
Organic farms don't have the tiny carbon footprint they like to tout. But they could
• http://www.theguardian.comCan organic agriculture mitigate climate change? If you were to simply Google the question which, being a millennial I have done you would be led to believe that it does.
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