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<p>I live in Tornado Alley, in Oklahoma City. The suburb located fifteen miles south of our home, Moore, averages a tornado every 2.5 years since 1991.

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<p>A recent data roundup by renewable energy industry analyst Paul Gipe shows that variable renewables are meeting much larger percentages of grid power than previously thought possible in some European countries.</p>

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<p>Food and other organic material (by which I mean yard waste and prunings) make up a whopping 25 percent of New York&rsquo;s residential waste stream: that&rsquo;s a huge amount to potentially divert from landfills and incinerators.

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<p>&bull;China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016 &bull;Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals &bull;Geoengineering: Can We Save the Planet by Messing with Nature?

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<p>The social, environmental and economic crises that continue to reap havoc across the globe provide a critical opportunity for ordinary people to demand economic reform and political transformation says STWR's director, Rajesh Makwana, in an interview wit

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<p>The percentage of children walking and bicycling to school has plummeted from almost 50 percent in 1969 to about 13 percent today.</p>

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<p>Of all the critiques of mainstream economics, Third World, feminist, Austrian, radical, Georgist, Marxist and others, the one our grandkids would have us heed most is the ecological critique.</p>

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<p>A mid-week update. <span class="xml-text">Oil prices have fallen $2-3 a barrel this week on weaker demand, increased US production, rising product stockpiles, and a stronger dollar.

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<p>&quot;Freedom is the natural faculty to do whatever one wishes that is not prevented by force or law.

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<p>It was a rainy Sunday morning in mid-April, the kind that makes one wish to be at home by the stove enjoying a cup of hot coffee.