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    Electric Vehicles Offer Nevada Risk And Opportunity

    Sep 16, 2019

    Sales of electric vehicles, including hybrids, grew by nearly a quarter last year. And demand is expected to grow even more as state governments incentivize electric vehicles. 

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    Reno Leads On Climate Adaptation

    Sep 04, 2019

    According to a study by the Weather Channel and Climate Central, Reno is the fastest-warming city in the United State

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    RTC Transportation Summit Aims To Accelerate Silver State's Greening

    Aug 28, 2019

    It was hard to miss last week’s RTC Clean Energy and Transportation Summit.

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    Green Means Green For Hotels

    Aug 12, 2019

    Hotels consume more water and electricity per square foot than almost any other commercial building.

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    The Salt
    Allagash employees Salim Raal, left, and Brendan McKay stack bottles of Golden Brett, a limited release beer fermented with a house strain of Brettanomyces yeast. The Maine brewery recently installed solar panels as part of its sustainability initiatives
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    Good News For 'Green' Brews: Consumers Say They'll Pay More For Sustainable Beer

    Oct 13, 2018
    More than 1,000 U.S. beer drinkers surveyed say they would pay about $1.30 more for a six-pack of beer if it was produced at a brewery that invests in water conservation or solar power.
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    The Salt
    A new report suggests that when consumers buy sustainably-certified coffee, they have little way of knowing whether or how their purchase helps growers.
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    Do Sustainable Certifications For Coffee Really Help Coffee Growers?

    Sep 02, 2018
    A global development research organization study suggests that there's little data showing whether growers benefit from sustainably certifying their coffee because they are difficult to monitor.
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    Working Toward The Last Straw

    Jul 17, 2018

    We talk with Cindy Ortega about efforts to cut down on the use of straws at MGM resorts. Ortega is MGM's chief sustainability officer.

     

     

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    The Salt
    Deep-sea trawling can include bycatch and harm coral, so some activists want it banned.
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    For 50 Years, Deep-Water Trawls Likely Caught More Fish Than Anyone Thought

    Apr 23, 2018
    Using historical data and estimates from deep-sea trawls that drag nets along the ocean floor, researchers estimate that millions of tons of catch have gone unreported in the last 50 years.
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    13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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    Living Well Now: What Does It Take?

    Jan 21, 2018
    Shaping our lives around fulfilling social, intellectual and creative potential — keys to happiness — is more compatible with sustainability than pursuing unlimited wealth, says author Randall Curren.
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    The Salt
    Wade Dooley, in Albion, Iowa, uses less fertilizer than most farmers because he grows rye and alfalfa, along with corn and soybeans. "This field [of rye] has not been fertilized at all," he says.
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    Does 'Sustainability' Help The Environment Or Just Agriculture's Public Image?

    Aug 22, 2017
    Big food companies like Walmart want farmers to reduce greenhouse emissions from nitrogen fertilizer. But the best-known program to accomplish this may not be having much effect.
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    The Salt
    Acadian Sturgeon and Caviar markets three types of caviar, one from the wild Acadian sturgeon, and two types — green and gold — from its farmed shortnose sturgeon.
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    To Help Keep Sturgeon Sustainable, Farm And Fishery Work Together

    Jul 31, 2017
    Because demand for seafood is rising and wild stocks are not, a hatchery owner in Canada is hoping his model of "responsible agriculture" can keep the prized fish both on the menu and in the water.
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    The Salt
    Rabbit, skinned and gutted, and ready to be made into rabbit <em>stifado</em> (a Greek stew with wine and onions) or rabbit ragu with penne and parmesan, a recipe devised by Horsey that has received rave reviews from <em>Ugly Food</em> readers in the UK.
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    The Truth About Ugly Foods: They're Delicious, Abundant And Good For The Planet

    Apr 20, 2017
    From ugly fish like sea robin to the discarded parts of livestock, like ox cheeks and chicken feet, a new book celebrates repugnant-looking but flavorful foods, and urges us to eat more of them.
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    The Salt
    Jean Claude Frajmund, the owner of Eco Shrimp Garden in Newburgh, N.Y., is raising shrimp indoors. He is working on doubling production to 300 pounds a week.
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    Shrimp Grown In Tanks Make A Splash, Coming To A Market Near You

    Aug 18, 2016
    The U.S. appetite for shrimp is often fed in unsavory ways, with seafood produced unsustainably, sometimes with slave labor. In New York's Hudson Valley, an indoor aqua farm is raising an alternative.
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    Cohousing On The Way To Nevada

    Apr 15, 2016

    In the 1980s, a new kind of living arrangement called "cohousing' sprouted up in the United States.

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    The Salt
    Chef Drew Deckman preps a smoked river trout salad, with fish donated by Slow Fish 2016 participants from California.
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    Can 'Slow Fish' Help Save America's Small-Scale Fishermen?

    Mar 14, 2016
    An event in New Orleans this weekend highlighted the wealth of seafood the Americas have to offer — and the endangered state of the small fishers who catch it.
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    The Salt
    Herring are delicious, with flaky, mild meat and oil that sizzles on their skin when grilled over a flame. Chefs and ocean advocates have been promoting the environmental and health benefits of eating small fish like this. But the case of the San Francis
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    Herring Headache: The Big Obstacles To Eating Small Fish In California

    Feb 29, 2016
    Chefs and environmentalists have been promoting the benefits of eating fish lower down the food chain. But San Francisco's herring fishery shows some of the challenges to spreading that message.
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    The Salt
    A fisherman shovels grey sole, a type of flounder, out of the hold of a ship at the Portland Fish Pier in Maine, September 2015. New research finds the ability of fish populations to reproduce and replenish themselves is declining across the globe. The w
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    Fish Stocks Are Declining Worldwide, And Climate Change Is On The Hook

    Dec 14, 2015
    Fish populations aren't replenishing themselves like they used to. Researchers say there's not enough food for young fish, and it's directly linked to changing temperatures.
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    The Salt
    Some bars are blending leftover wine with fruit to make sangria.
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    To Go Green, Bars Try To Reuse Their Booze

    Dec 11, 2015
    Bartenders are finding novel ways to reuse leftover wine and spent ingredients from cocktail-making. It's just one part of a nascent movement toward sustainability in the industry.
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    The Salt
    Chef Michael Cimarusti, of Los Angeles' Providence restaurant, is pioneering the West Coast incarnation of Dock to Dish, a program that hooks up local fishermen directly with chefs.
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    L.A.'s Top Restaurant Charts New Waters In Sustainable Seafood

    Nov 30, 2015
    Providence is widely considered the finest restaurant in Los Angeles. Its award-winning chef, Michael Cimarusti, is piloting Dock to Dish, a program that hooks chefs up directly with local fishermen.
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    The electricity to power Sustainability Base comes from rooftop solar panels and a fuel cell like those that NASA frequently uses in spacecraft.
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    NASA Uses Lessons From Space To Design An Efficient Building

    Nov 30, 2015
    Named Sustainability Base, a NASA facility in California is a model for energy-efficient federal buildings. It's powered by a fuel cell like those used on spacecraft and recycles water for flushing.
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    The Salt
    The Salty Girl Seafood team won $5,000 in prize money at the Fish 2.0 competition. They are (from left) Gina Auriemma, who handles marketing for the firm, and co-founders Norah Eddy and Laura Johnson.
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    Entrepreneurs Pitch Sustainable Seafood Ideas; Investors Take The Bait

    Nov 17, 2015
    At Fish 2.0, entrepreneurs get the chance to sell their ideas for modernizing the industry to a roomful of investors and venture capitalists. It's kind of like TV's Shark Tank — for the fish world.
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    The Salt
    The debate about sustainable diets has focused on meat production, which requires lots of land and water to grow grain to feed livestock. It also contributes to methane emissions. But the cabinet secretaries with final authority say the 2015 dietary guid
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    New Dietary Guidelines Will Not Include Sustainability Goal

    Oct 06, 2015
    A government-appointed panel wanted the federal government's 2015 nutrition advice to consider a food's environmental impact. But the cabinet secretaries with final authority say it won't happen.
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    Chemical engineer Debbie Mielewski heads Ford's plastics and sustainable research division. She says the automaker is looking to increase the amount of environmentally friendly materials in its vehicles.
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    The Soy Car Seat: Are Companies Doing Enough For The Environment?

    Aug 04, 2015
    Corporate sustainability reports help measure firms' ecological footprints. Ford, for example, touts renewable materials in its cars. But some environmentalists say the reports can be misleading.
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    The Salt
    A government-appointed panel concluded in a recent report that Americans should eat less red meat and processed meat. A more plant-focused diet is better for health and the environment, it found.
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    Will The Dietary Guidelines Consider The Planet? The Fight Is On

    Feb 26, 2015
    A panel of nutrition experts recommends a diet lower in meat in part because it's better for the Earth. But the meat industry says environmental policy doesn't belong in nutrition guidelines.
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    The Salt
    <strong>Name That Fish: </strong>A wild U.S. fish being sold as "Pacific snapper." Snapper is rarely found north of Mexico, and some rockfish species are often sold as "snapper."
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    For Rockfish, A Tale Of Recovery, Hidden On Menus

    Feb 06, 2015
    Once depleted by decades of overfishing, rockfish have rebounded. But it's hard to tell this conservation and fishery management success story if purveyors continue to misidentify the tasty fish.

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