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Brazil Mining Disaster

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On November 21, 2015
Horrible stuff going on in Brazil. Two mining dams have collapsed in the state of Minas Gerais, creating a slow-moving ooze of toxicity into the Rio Doce that has already killed almost everything within 500km of the dams. The company is a joint venture of...

Keystone

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On November 6, 2015

Some people don't like to be wrong. I love to be wrong. That's because I'm pretty pessimistic about modern politics and even more so about the future. I don't want.

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Water, Chemicals, Bodies, Cancer

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On November 5, 2015
Beth Alvarado has a lovely and sad essay at Guernica about the cancers that killed her husband and much of his family who lived in a neighborhood on the south side of Tucson heavily polluted by a plume of trichloroethylene, used to clean airplane parts...

A Defense of Thoreau

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On October 28, 2015

Kathryn Schulz attempts to destroy Henry David Thoreau's reputation, calling him, not without accuracy, a libertarian, anti-social crank and fraud who didn't even live the anti-social life he was espousing,.

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Empire of Timber

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On October 26, 2015
Listen people, you have two choices. You can eat this month. Or you can buy my new book Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests, published by Cambridge University Press, at the modest price of $100. Or $80 on Kindle. Don't ask...

Solar Suburbs

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On September 24, 2015

Visions of rethinking suburbs to be green-friendly abound: These examples point to the potential of what some are calling “solar suburbs.” The concept is a sweeping one—solar panels cover roofs,.

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