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The case for putting people before nature
All over the world, environmental groups are trying to figure out how to balance nature and people in carbon-rich biodiversity hotspots.
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How food, forests, and people are connected, in 10 charts
Here's why environmentalists should cheer on the end of poverty.
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What the humble turnip can teach us about economic growth
The root vegetable might have been key to the U.K.'s Industrial Revolution.
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Costa Rica modernized without wrecking the environment. Here’s how.
Not every route to prosperity involves trashing the planet.
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Can Airbnb keep its users from discriminating against each other?
Sharing our resources is one piece of a more sustainable future -- if we can share fairly.
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Is boxed water actually eco-friendly?
Water packaged in cartons instead of bottles is being marketed as "better" for the environment. Is it? Advice maven Umbra Fisk investigates.
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Why is EPA chief Gina McCarthy speaking at a conference full of private water company execs?
Private water firms have screwed over cities and citizens around the world, including Flint, Michigan.
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The backstory on Standing Rock, the federal government, and tribal sovereignty
A primer on the body of law that has everything to do with the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
Floridians voted Republican on Nov. 8, and at the same time they rejected an anti-solar ballot amendment.
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Obama just missed a big chance to boost wind power
The federal government doesn’t favor renewable projects over fossil fuels on public land. It should.
