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This is a guest post by Claire Fawcett, a former resident of Philadelphia who now works for a non-profit in Oakland, California. Some envision environmentalists as wealthy, Burkenstock-clad radicals who have no awareness of the “real” issues affecting the average American. Though this stereotype is inaccurate, it is promoted by environmentally unfriendly politicians to ostracize [...]
Despite pervasive refrains of “…nobody walks in LA” (courtesy of ’80s New Wave band Missing Persons) people actually do walk here. Compared to my hometown of Dallas, people in LA walk a LOT. Maybe it’s because the traffic is so bad, and once you get to your destination, there’s nowhere to park. Regardless, the LA [...]
A new machine that pasteurizes milk by using solar energy was recently installed in Nicaragua, thanks to researchers from the Agrarian University of Nicaragua and Spain’s University of Lérida. The primary goal for the machine is to help communities to save money. With its use of clean energy, it will also help to curtail global [...]
Of nearly 2,000 Americans responding to a survey by The Regional Economist magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis zero percent say they favor lifting import tariffs on ethanol. That opinion bodes badly for lifting the $0.54 a gallon tariff on Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane. This view reflects America’s new dream [...]
(This is another installment in this week’s “Walk This Way” series on walkable neighborhoods in the U.S.) If you missed the news last week, Google Maps has added a new feature letting users request walking directions rather than car or public transit directions for trips of less than 10 kilometers (a little over six miles). [...]
