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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm

A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!) According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due [...]

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KY Green Economy Leaves Wallet, Returns to Party Briefly

July 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm

Every day now, it seems, more money is being given to Kentuckians for the purposes of, uh, making us less dumb and not as poor. So it should come as no surprise, then, that the Red House has awarded nearly $4.1 million in Energy Star-rated appliance rebates. In theory, this means that if you’ve finally [...]

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Shell Oil’s Crude Measures on Trial

May 28, 2009 – 7:31 pm

Stupid puns aside: When we normally talk about the dangers of our addiction to foreign fossil fuels, we’re usually talking about some amorphous, bearded, turbin-wearing boogeyman standing atop an oil derrick, shooting an AK-47 into the air. As the following documentary illustrates, we don’t know what in fuck we’re talking about, as oftentimes the boogeyman [...]

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