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Back in 1897, a structure called the California Cycleway came very close to beautiful existence. The elevated structure would have provided a smooth, flat, uninterrupted ride for the nine miles from Pasadena to downtown. (You can see a Google map of the proposed route here .) Man, bik...
Detroit’s Petroleum Coke PilesFacebook page A gift to Detroit from Canada’s tar-sands operators. A riverside refinery that has operated in Detroit since the 1930s began refining a new type of oil in November: tar-sands oil from Canada. In the few short months since it began handling t...
Shutterstock / Rob Wilson Have we been paying too much for gas? The good folks at BP , Shell , and Statoil would never break the law and screw over their customers in a quest for inflated profits, surely. Yet that is the very accusation coming out of Europe, where the industry giants ...
This story is part of a Guardian series on climate refugees. Read parts 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 . Travis S. The slow-moving disaster being visited on the village of Newtok is a familiar one in Alaska. People are losing the ground beneath their feet, because of erosion. Climate change has ac...
I didn’t set out to spend all week endorsing Jonathan Chait posts , but he’s got a follow-up to the cover story he wrote last week and, well, I endorse it. Like Chait, I continue to believe that Obama’s EPA will issue CO2 standards on existing power plants. At the very least, there’s ...
Kroger Co. Wasted food is digested here. One California food company has a novel plan for dealing with food waste and cutting down the power bill: Feed it to bacteria. The Kroger Co. plans to chuck all food gone past its sell-by date into an industrial silo, where microbes will break ...
Remember the scene in the movie Gasland where the guy lights his tapwater on fire? No? Here it is: That footage helped ignite the grassroots movement against fracking , a controversial technology that shoots a slurry of water mixed with sand and laced with toxic chemicals into undergr...
Don’t freak out, but there’s a problem with green roofs: They’re not necessarily greener than ordinary roofs. Soooooo kind of a major problem. With a little extra effort, though, green roofs can be efficient AND locally sourced — you just can’t take the easy way out. Scientific Americ...
