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13 January 2025 at 05:01
Here’s what to know about potential savings on your power bill, and the environmental benefits.
The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday
11 January 2025 at 07:00
Can a city lose an entire neighborhood now and simply shuffle on, dragging the local memory like a ghost limb?
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- How A Princeton Professor’s Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change
How A Princeton Professor’s Home Renovation Project Is Fighting Climate Change
8 December 2024 at 03:00
Forrest Meggers, a professor at Princeton University, has turned his home into a live-in laboratory that pushes the boundaries of sustainability.
Forrest Meggers, in the basement of his home, surrounded by components of his carbon-free heating and cooling system.
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Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding
29 November 2024 at 05:02
More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is among the earliest cemeteries in the country to be modeled after rural landscapes, and to serve as an urban park.
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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
27 November 2024 at 05:02
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
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Kate Raworth Looked Beyond G.D.P. to Create ‘Doughnut Economics’
26 November 2024 at 05:01
With “Doughnut Economics,” Kate Raworth looks instead at planetary well-being.
Kate Raworth speaking in London in 2022. She published her book “Doughnut Economics” in 2017.
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