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Koch-backed group distributes 25,000 insane climate change conspiracy booklets

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  • 04/12/2017

The climate change deniers at the Koch brothers-backed Heartland Institute have apparently mailed a lengthy report challenging established climate science to 25,000 educators across the nation. The report, entitled “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” has been challenged as climate “propaganda”...

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How a small tribe in Nevada shut down coal and built a solar farm

  • Lacy Cooke
  • 04/12/2017

President Donald Trump brags about bringing back coal jobs, but tends to gloss over the fuel's negative health effects for workers and those who live nearby. The Moapa Band of Paiutes in Nevada know all about those harmful health effects. After years of campaigning against a coal plant near their land, they finally...

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  • Lacy Cooke
  • 04/12/2017

Most of us at this point in human history can only dream of journeying to Mars. But Freedomes and SunCity Camp are making that experience almost possible with a dome tent camp in Wadi Rum, Jordan - close to where the 2015 movie "The Martian" was filmed. Visitors can now get that Martian experience inside one of...

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  • Nicole Jewell
  • 04/12/2017

London-based architect Asif Khan just unveiled plans for a mesmerizing building that explores the evolution of energy since the beginning of time. The massive cylindrical pavilion takes visitors on a computer-generated tour that starts with the origins of energy and ends with present-day sustainable energy production....

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  • Jasmin Malik Chua
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Who runs the world? Ridhima Pandey, for one. The nine-year-old girl from India is suing her government for failing to stem planet-warming greenhouse-gas emissions. In a petition filed last week with the National Green Tribunal, a court that handles cases related to the environment, Pandey reproached the country's...

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Green Gaudí-esque office pops up on a former brownfield in Portland

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Portland is a mecca of environmentally friendly design and the city’s new sculptural One North complex is keeping that green reputation alive. Holst Architecture recently completed the eye-catching office project that draws inspiration from Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s modernist curves and emphasizes...

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  • Nicole Jewell
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Spanish art collective Pink Intruder just installed a glowing cardboard building called Renaixement inside a beautiful Gothic cloister in Valencia. The golden cube features a mosaic facade made out of an intricate cardboard latticework, and it's illuminated from within by lighting studio RADIANTE. The...

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Pope opens free laundromat for Rome's poor

  • Lacy Cooke
  • 04/11/2017

Homeless people in Rome will now have a place to wash their clothes and blankets, thanks to Pope Francis. The pope recently opened a free laundromat, the Lavanderia di Papa Francesco, or Pope Francis Laundry, with the goal of restoring "dignity to many people who are our brothers and sisters." The...

Homeless people in Rome will now have a place to wash their clothes and blankets, thanks to Pope Francis. The pope recently opened a free laundromat,...

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