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Environmental advocacy group with a lot of online resources, including a database of farm subsidy recipients (at http://farm.ewg.org).

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Searchable database of U.S. government statistics about individual locales -- search by town or zip code. Includes environmental (e.g. water quality), economic (e.g. employment) and other figures. From the guys who designed Quotably.

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Fifteen?! I Apparently this is true, though.

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This seems to be the company that PECO (Pennsylvania utility) is working with to generate wind energy.

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This is just effing depressing.

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From the article: "Without more recycling, antimony, which is used to make flame retardant materials, will run out in 15 years, silver in 10 and indium in under five.... He estimates that zinc could be used up by 2037, both indium and hafnium - which is increasingly important in computer chips - could be gone by 2017, and terbium - used to make the green phosphors in fluorescent light bulbs - could run out before 2012."

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An amazing set of images from a Rice U. thesis project, representing an imaginary "artificial landscape" on the US-Mexico border called "¡Super NAFTA Land!" Discovered via BLDGBLOG.

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The homepage of the amazing photographer Edward Burtynsky, the man behind "Manufactured Landscapes."

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has found Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to be in violation of applicable laws in allowing groundwater, including a number of residential wells, to become contaminated with methane. Cabot has been ordered to provide water to residents and to supply homeowners with methane detectors, but has yet to comply. The DEP began investigating in the wake of an explosion. One resident commented: "You just don't drink water that explodes."

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Every measurement of the progress of global warming indicates that it is moving forward faster than anyone expected. With each new set of measurements, they have to revise their models for the worse, apparently. Good grief.

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Includes plans for a build-it-yourself worm bin, plus lots of other information. This whole site is worth exploring.

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A short piece on the ripple effects (all negative) that appear when cash-strapped school boards cut funds for school buses. Safety, the environment, scheduling, and more are all negatively affected.

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