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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Paying Twice in Colombia to Grow and Kill Legal Crops

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Cacao, Gis, Skoll, Google Earth, Conservation, Roundup Herbicide, Coca Eradication, Organic, Usaid, State Department, Amazon, Avina, US Foreign Policy, Technology, World News
Jim Fruchterman

The US government pays one group of people to help convince people to switch to growing legal crops, and then while paying another group of people to kill illegal crops, they accidentally kill the legal plantings.

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How To Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Energy, Activism, New Radicals, Books, Green, Careers, Business, Giving, Skoll, Julia Moulden, Healthy Living News
Julia Moulden

A funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century: we got hooked on fossil fuels. Now, much as we'd like to kick the habit, we're finding it really hard to do. Tom Rand thinks he can help.

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