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With Renewables on the Rise, Dirty Fuels Losing Competitive Edge

The financial realities are pushing a clean energy transition—as more wind and solar capacity is installed, coal and natural gas plants are used less.

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If Your Tax Dollars Help Create a Resource, Shouldn’t it be Shared Freely?

The Open Licensing Policy Toolkit supports “the education of government staff creating, adopting and implementing open licensing policies.”

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Fortune 500 Companies Stash $2.1 Trillion Offshore as US Taxpayers Foot the Bill

Untaxed or undertaxed offshore holdings amount to an estimated $620 billion owed to US taxpayers.

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Hundreds of Artists Slam Anti-Terror Law for Its ‘Direct Attack on Creative Arts, Free Expression’

Signatories inlcuding Margaret Atwood write that C-51 ‘gives the government carte blanche to suppress any voice they don’t like.’

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A Motion for The Ocean: Obama Announces First Two New Marine Sanctuaries in 15 Years

This isn’t the first time protections for the country’s marine areas have improved on President Obama’s watch.

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Even The Wall Street Journal Is Asking How to Correct Capitalism

The question of how the ownership of capital should be structured in a democratic society was raised by none other than Margaret Thatcher’s authorized biographer.

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Orthodox, Progressive, Invisible

There’s a price for treating religious groups as homogenous political blocs.

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Cascading Rivers Scenic Bikeway

A 72-mile route in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains.

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Terry Tempest Williams: “Survival Becomes a Spiritual Practice”

The author and activist talks about millennials, climate change, and how she can’t imagine being alive at “a more thrilling, challenging time.”

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A New New Deal from the Roosevelt Institute

A reform agenda based on an incisive analysis of how we got here. Call it a new, New Deal.