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Aug- 2013 -31 August
U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in 2013
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The opening of the San Francisco Bay Area bike share on August 29, 2013,…
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7 August
Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
Editor’s Note: As regular readers will know, I don’t agree 100% with everything I post to the site. The article…
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Jul- 2013 -25 July
Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Dangerous Territory
by Emily E. Adams, Earth Policy Institute Increasing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a heat-trapping gas, are pushing the…
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25 July
Food or Fuel?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute At the time of the Arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the…
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13 July
Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute In 1938 Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of…
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10 July
Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to…
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Jun- 2013 -14 June
Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
Janet Larsen and J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the…
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7 June
China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that…
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May- 2013 -15 May
Dozens of U.S. Cities Board the Bike-Sharing Bandwagon
by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute When New York City opened registration for its much anticipated public bike-sharing program on…
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Apr- 2013 -26 April
Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Politicians, lobbyists, and tourists alike can ride bicycles along a specially marked lane between…
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12 April
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity – Chapter 1, Food: The Weak Link
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one…
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Mar- 2013 -29 March
Falling Gasoline Use Means United States Can Just Say No to New Pipelines and Food-to-Fuel
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Freeing America from its dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world is…
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