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Electricity from Plants — An Off-the-Grid Way of Lighting Your Room, a Street, a Park

Prometheus, bringer of fire, was punished for the crime of rendering less the sum of human wretchedness (Byron). Can we replace his gift with another? Or will we let the fire we burn, burn us?by Gaius PubliusIn the beginning, before we emerged into civilization, we were given fire as a source of energy — all we had to do was light it.

New York divests from fossil fuels and files climate lawsuit against major polluters

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announces that the city will divest from fossil fuels and has filed a lawsuit against five major fossil fuel companies, including BP and Royal Dutch Shell, for climate damages
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The Story of 2017 (Part 1)

by Gaius Publius2017 has been an such unusual year in so many ways that its unusuality has masked the ways in which it has been a very usual year, a very more-of-the-same series of months.For one thing, "The Resistance" has gone from being a meaningful idea to something almost seems like it could be added to anything to indicate added value — "Dove soap, now with #Resistance." I've seen "resistance" claims from those who fought