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10 stocking stuffers for home cooks (that will actually get used)

Looking for stocking stuffer ideas for your favorite home cooks? Here are some suggestions for super useful tools that they’ll love.




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10 thoughtful gifts that double your generosity

When you buy these presents, stocking stuffers and hostess gifts, you're also giving to charity.




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Climate change is making spiders mean

New research finds mean spiders know what it takes to survive extreme weather.




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Hybrid trucks: Delivering the total package

The shipping industry embraces fuel efficiency with hybrid delivery fleets.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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U.S. Navy gets hybrid Destroyer

A new USS Destroyer class, the DGG 51, boasts a hybrid-electric engine to conserve fuel on the high seas.



  • Research & Innovations

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5 biggest car flops

The explosive Ford Pinto tops this list of the 5 biggest car flops.




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Nearly 70% of turkey burgers contain fecal bacteria, says Consumer Reports

Overall, 90 percent of the ground turkey that the magazine examined had one or more of the five bacteria they tested for.



  • Protection & Safety

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Norwegian army put on vegetarian diet

Combating climate change now on the menu for Norway’s armed forces.




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Republicans take aim at wild lands in budget deal

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the budget deal, it's interesting to see what noteworthy cuts will be made to the environment.




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U.S. approves huge wind farm in Wyoming

The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre project could include up to 1,000 wind turbines, which would make it the largest wind farm in North America.




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Media Mayhem: Hope and change 2.0

In the name of research, our intrepid columnist is joining online communities like there's no tomorrow. What he found, though, is that it can actually help buil



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Emergency surgery

A botched message on health insurance reform offers lessons in the effort to sell climate change legislation.




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Media Mayhem: Nuking climate change

When people like John Kerry back nuclear subsidies, green activists find themselves in a difficult position.




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Media Mayhem: 5 more tall tales by climate change deniers in 2009

Last week’s readers help me come up with five more juicy ones to chew on.



  • Climate & Weather

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Media Mayhem: It's time to get scrappy, Mr. President

To fulfill his promise to become the 'Climate Change President,' Obama will have to channel his inner Harry Truman.




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More young and middle-aged adults having strokes

In 1994, 12.9 percent of strokes occurred in adults between ages 20 and 55, whereas in 2005, 18.6 percent of strokes occurred in this age group, according to th



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Watch: What girls really think about body image and the media

Want to know what young girls really think about the media, girls' fashions, and teen idols like Nicki Minaj? Watch this video to find out.



  • Protection & Safety

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Playboy is no longer a nudie mag. (Now you can actually read it!)

For readers, it's great news that Playboy is getting rid of the naked photos.



  • Arts & Culture

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Protests rock Copenhagen, Day 6

Worlds collide as energy corporations, Fortune 500 CEO's, nonprofit leaders and 60,000 protestors try to make sense of the Copenhagen climate talks.



  • Research & Innovations

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Calling in from Copenhagen: MNN blogger Karl Burkart

Video: MNN blogger Karl Burkart chats with Current TV about the politics of blogging at the Copenhagen climate summit.



  • Climate & Weather

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Developing nations walk out of Copenhagen talks

Climate talks in Denmark are on hold after a group of developing nations walked out over concerns about abandoning the Kyoto Protocol.



  • Climate & Weather

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Copenhagen Day 8: G77 walks out, Canada punk'd

Canada does an about-face on its climate target (if only) and the G77 suspends talks after a move to eliminate Kyoto Protocol language.



  • Research & Innovations

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Betting on Copenhagen

A 'prediction market' is betting on the outcome of Copenhagen. Here are 4 experts making their own predictions for COP15.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 9: Official draft released, drama ensues

Ethiopia shocks African nations by supporting the new draft agreement at Copenhagen. Drama sure to ensure tomorrow.



  • Research & Innovations

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Eco kids speak out on climate change

Kids present a DVD of videos, songs, speeches and presentations on climate change to world leaders in Copenhagen.




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Climate change face-off: Schwarzenegger vs. Palin

Sarah Palin trades barbs with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he criticized her anti-science stance on global warming.




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Copenhagen Day 10: NGO fury

NGO's furious over new draft agreement and a radical reduction of badges at the Bella Center. Only 300 delegates will now be allowed in.



  • Research & Innovations

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Copenhagen Day 11: Hillary thwacks ball into China's court

The U.S. secretary of state makes the ACES climate bill targets official and pledges to build a $100 billion fund.



  • Research & Innovations

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Obama speaks at climate-change summit

Video: President Obama addresses the leaders of nations attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen, urging countries to step up before it's too late.



  • Climate & Weather

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Obamahagen (Day 12): ALBA lambasts 'friendly nations' meeting

The Bolivian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) led an impromptu press conference denouncing the closed meeting of 18 'friendly nations' led by Obama. Hugo Chavez



  • Research & Innovations

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The bright side of 'Flopenhagen'

Both environmentalists and U.N. officials agree ... COP15 was a 'failure.' But the 'Copenhagen Accord,' though flawed could mark the messy beginnings of a post-



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German reporter to Sen. Inhofe: 'You're ridiculous'

Climate change denier and Republican senator Jim Inhofe was given a cool reception by the foreign press corp when he hit Copenhagen last week.




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Thomas Friedman on Copenhagen

Video: Rachel Maddow is joined by <i>New York Times</i> columnist Thomas Friedman, fresh from attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen for a discus



  • Climate & Weather

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Highlights from Copenhagen

Video clips from the great Copenhagen march for the climate.



  • Research & Innovations

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Fighting climate change is a business model

As governments struggle to solve the climate change crisis, who's stepping up?




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Geoengineering with space particles, artificial volcanoes and Special K

It's no substitute for simply getting rid of coal, but geo-engineering just may be our planet's Hail Mary pass.




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It&#39;s time to move past George W. Bush

If Democrats want to make this election about issues, they should make it a mandate on Rand Paul's ideas not George Bush's failures.




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Poverty and Climate Change converge at MDG week in New York

Climate change now emerging a core issue in the fight to end poverty.



  • Research & Innovations

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TH!NK:Climate Change contest can send you to Cancun

The EJC is sending someone to Cancun for the next climate summit. Budding bloggers, this is your chance to get noticed.




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Revenge of the climate scientists, but is it too late?

Climate scientists are beginning to unite to against the misinformation campaigns of right-wingers, but it comes after they've been dealt several blows.




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Do climate talks just get in the way of climate progress?

The world's most committed climate activists are descending on Durban for the next attempt to reach an international climate change treaty. So why did one of mo




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The key to climate action? Getting the size just right

In the face of the global challenge of climate change, our responses too often involve doing Much Too Little or thinking Way Too Big. The real key is to start a



  • Climate & Weather

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Scientists say new climate change report must focus on consensus

The United Nations rules require the IPCC to seek unanimous consensus, a fact that climate scientists want to see emphasized in the newest report.



  • Climate & Weather

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Georgia college goes green

There's an exciting new trend among higher education institutions: going green, and then going greener. Many have far exceeded LEED requirements for environment




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Progress made on carbon capture and storage

Little by little the Obama administration is clearing the way for CCS.




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Was Genghis Khan history&#39;s greenest conqueror?

The Mongol invasion scrubbed nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research.



  • Climate & Weather

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NRDC: Cable boxes guzzle more energy than new refrigerators

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council details the staggering environmental cost of DVRing 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' every week.




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WorldShares pledge: &#39;I will reduce my business-related carbon footprint by telecommuting&#39;

Roughly 20 million Americans work from home on at least a semi-regular basis. Here's how telecommuting is impressive dent in carbon emissions — and what you



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Is Santa&#39;s carbon footprint as big as his generous spirit?

Quick, somebody get Rudolph some Rolaids. Along with the methane emissions generated by a fleet of airborne tundra reindeer, take a gander at other contributor




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MNN Nest Pledge: &#39;Once a week, I will walk one place instead of driving&#39;

For your health and the environment's, take at least one weekly stroll.