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• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Agriculture's Sustainable Future: Breeding Better Crops

  Modern technologies can increase crop yields and reduce agriculture's environmental impact

  By Richard Hamilton   | Jul 15, 2009  | 29

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Is Ocean Zoning the Solution to Dying Marine Ecosystems?

  Regulating activity across the seas could halt and reverse damage

  By Tundi Agardy   | Jun 30, 2009  | 4

• Special Editions |  More Science

  Saving the Disadvantaged from Pollution

  New principles can stop us from dumping on minorities and the poor

  By Rachel Morello-Frosch   | Jun 25, 2009  | 2

• Special Editions |  More Science

  5 Steps to Clean Up Air Pollution

  These solutions can help improve air quality, whether it warms or not

  By Janice Nolen   | Jun 24, 2009  | 8

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Global Warming and Your Health

  You should care about global climate change because it threatens your health

  By Katherine M. Shea   | Apr 27, 2009  | 8

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Time to Think Hydropower

  The nation's waterways could provide much more clean energy

  By Linda Church Ciocci   | Apr 9, 2009  | 31

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Financing Energy Efficiency with Taxes

  Home and business owners could pay for clean energy technology through their property tax bills

  By Daniel M. Kammen   | Mar 27, 2009  | 2

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  The Green Road to Prosperity

  Federal investment in entrepreneurs will create jobs, boost the economy and raise energy security

  By John Doerr   | Mar 26, 2009  | 4

• Special Editions |  Technology

  Clean-Tech: Force It or Fund It?

  Two experts favor different strategies to prompt the innovation of clean alternative energy technologies

  By Stephen D. Solomon   | Mar 24, 2009  | 3

• Special Editions |  Technology

  Building More Sustainable Cities

  Redesigning metropolitan areas as bioregional city-states can reduce our human footprint

  By William E. Rees   | Mar 12, 2009  | 5

• Special Editions |  Technology

  Eco-Gadgets: Exploiting the Shame Meter

  A few simple gadgets for the home would prod people into saving energy

  By Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler   | Jan 6, 2009  | 6

• Special Editions |  More Science

  To Save the Parks--Turn Off the TV!

  More and more parks will close if we don't tear ourselves away from electronic screens

  By Patricia Zaradic   | Dec 23, 2008  | 1

• Special Editions |  Energy & Sustainability

  Cap and Dividend, Not Trade: Making Polluters Pay

  A novel carbon trading system would reduce warming ... and pay consumers

  By Peter Barnes   | Dec 18, 2008  | 13

• Special Editions |  More Science

  For Alternative Energy's Sake--Keep Oil Prices High

  Tax oil if prices drop? No way! Yet if we don't, we can say good-bye to renewable energy

  By Steven Kyle   | Dec 16, 2008  | 9

• Special Editions |  More Science

  Green-Collar Jobs--The Future of the Global Workplace

  Investing now in clean energy technology will create millions of jobs and lifelong careers

  By Jerome Ringo   | Dec 11, 2008  | 6

• Special Editions |  More Science

  Obama's First 100 Days

  The new president must take bold steps, right away, to tackle the nation's energy challenge

  By Shirley Ann Jackson   | Dec 8, 2008  | 11

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