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  Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 4

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Perhaps feeling punchy because it's Monday, Tom Philpott jots down some random thoughts after reading an interview with home-cooking authority Mark Bittman.

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  Tips for flying to the Copenhagen climate conference 21

  Posted 6 months, 1 week ago

  This December Copenhagen will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where international delegates will negotiate a post-Kyoto Protocal global climate plan. Here's how you get there.

• Subway Facts 0

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• Thank you, Van Jones, for being busy

  Every job can be green, part one 1

  Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago

  A green-collar jobs program can help create an environmentally and economically sustainable society that: drastically reduces its greenhouse gas emissions; encourages energy independence from oil; eliminates the worry of heating and cooling one's home; and increases food security, all while providing millions of high-quality, well-paying, long-term jobs, thus bringing millions of people into a stable middle class.

• Why not medium-speed rail? 8

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• The stimulus bill provides serious money for high-speed rail 13

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• Restructuring the U.S. transport system 22

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• A pro-rail coalition should be much larger 1

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• Upgrade freight rail: Save 12 percent of oil, 4 percent of emissions, and jumpstart renewable grid 16

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• Two If By Sea

  Umbra on commuting choices 5

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• Amtrak arrests its own contest participant 2

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• Making Bulgaria look good 14

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• Obama and Biden to take the train down to D.C. for the inauguration 0

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• Transit ridership up; everyone agrees it should be funded 2

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• Supertrain a-comin’ 2

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• A real path to energy independence 31

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• China to invest $280 billion in rail network ‘as a stimulus measure’ 0

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• Public spending on transit is an easy call 2

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• KQED takes a look at California’s high-speed rail ballot measure 13

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