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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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The 'Homeless Man with a Golden Voice' Gets a Third Chance
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Wal-Mart has come out with another ambitious goal: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the...
Writing at The Oil Drum, Megan Quinn Bachman explains how she polled 2,005 members of two sustainability-oriented listservs (she doesn't...
In a Q&A at Scientific American, Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, suggests we need a new word to define human progress: Q: If "growth"...
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Red Lobster is going green. Darden Restaurants, which owns the seafood chain as well as Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, is launching a new...
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