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  • The Goode Family: Mike Judge's new green show

    Thu, May 21, 2009 4:48 PM by Shea Gunther

    The creator of 'King of the Hill' has a new series that follows the adventures of the Goodes, a hardcore green family making their way in a non-green world.

  • Texaco's oily footprint remains in Ecuador

    Thu, May 21, 2009 2:07 PM

    Ecuadorians living among the toxic remains of Texaco's oil drilling operations battle the company in court.

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  • Earth Minute letdown: What now?

    Wed, May 20, 2009 3:50 PM by Shea Gunther

    Share some ideas on how to green up living the other 525,948 minutes of the year. Every minute should be Earth Minute. (Wait, that might not end so well...)

  • Checking in on the TVA coal ash spill

    Tue, May 19, 2009 10:00 PM by Shea Gunther

    Drinking water near last year's billion-gallon coal ash spill in Tennessee is choked with arsenic and lead, and TVA is shipping cleaned-up coal ash to poor communities around the South.

  • San Francisco's solar initiatives paying off

    Tue, May 19, 2009 10:14 AM by PlentyMag.com

    The map of the city makes radiation data much more easily available to consumers – which is key to figuring out the payback time on a system.

  • Turbine plan received first permits

    Mon, May 18, 2009 3:25 PM by PlentyMag.com

    The permits allow the company to spend up to three years gathering data for a license application to pursue its proposed hydrokinetic power plant.

  • Live near coal ash? 1 in 50 chance of cancer.

    Fri, May 15, 2009 3:58 PM by Shea Gunther

    The Bush Administration buried a report showing a highly elevated risk of cancer for those living near coal ash. Why do we burn coal again?

  • New solar cells reach record efficiency

    Thu, May 14, 2009 5:47 PM by PlentyMag.com

    Solar cells that rely on photosensitive dyes to collect energy are beginning to show an energy-conversion efficiency of 10 percent in full sunlight.

  • Obama's nuclear problem

    Thu, May 14, 2009 2:11 PM by PlentyMag.com

    President Barack Obama has two nuclear issues to balance: weapons and waste

  • Cold fusion: Boom or bust?

    Thu, May 14, 2009 1:31 PM by PlentyMag.com

    A research facility will probe whether fusion power is feasible

  • GreenDig: Get your green news fix

    Thu, May 14, 2009 7:31 AM by Shea Gunther

    The GreenDig video podcast rolls a weeks worth of environmental news into five minutes and is hosted by MNN blogger Karl Burkart.

  • Sky sprockets in flight

    Wed, May 13, 2009 10:55 AM by PlentyMag.com

    Because wind turbines floating in the air are cooler and more productive.

  • 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media

    Tue, May 12, 2009 1:58 PM by Shea Gunther

    Guest blogger Max Gladwell shares 10 ways we're making the world a better place through the use of social media.

  • Look to the past for new solutions

    Mon, May 11, 2009 2:49 PM by PlentyMag.com

    Let's acknowledge that some of the most ingenious solutions to our planet’s woes appeared long before their inventors could have even anticipated the environmental problems we face today.

  • Power to the paper mills

    Mon, May 11, 2009 2:27 PM by PlentyMag.com

    Pulp and paper mills refine their waste in a new system called 'black liquor gasification'.

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