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A warehouse of protest wonders
12/27/2011In an industrial section of San Francisco, Greenpeace stores the props that go along with its brand of theatrical activism, like…
Read MoreHarsh Political Reality Slows Climate Studies Despite Extreme Year
12/26/2011By JUSTIN GILLIS At the end of one of the most bizarre weather years in American history, climate research stands at a…
Read MoreRevend Launches Light Bulb Recycling Vending Machine
12/26/2011U.K. corporation Revend Recycling Limited has launched a “reverse vending” recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs…
Read MoreSUPERSTAR’S SPY TEAM
12/26/2011BY JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — George Clooney has not only played a CIA agent in films — the lantern-jawed…
Read MoreA Different Kind of Container Store
12/26/2011A rendering of a new Starbucks store in Seattle that was built primarily of four used shipping containers. Starbucks is about…
Read MoreScarlett Johansson Talks Poverty and Politics
12/26/2011Although she may be best known for her quirky film roles and sultry looks, Scarlett Johansson is much more than a pretty…
Read More2011: The Year in Environmental Disasters
12/26/2011by Alex Davies, After last year’s BP oil spill and other environmental disasters, hopes were high that 2011 would be a better year….
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VIDEO: See How Painting Mountains in Peru is Slowly Bringing Back Lost Glaciers
12/26/2011by Tafline Laylin, When we first learned about Eduardo Gold’s plan to paint the Peruvian Andes white in order to deflect heat back…
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Does This ‘Hydrogen-Powered’ Luxury Boat Break the Laws of Physics?
12/23/2011by Michael Graham Richard, Hydrogen from Water = Energy Storage There’s a supposedly “hydrogen-powered” luxury boat that has been making the…
Read MoreUS adds more billion-dollar disasters to 2011 list
12/23/2011By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com Just last August the federal officials who track weather disasters said 2011 would go down as a…
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