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Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: John Norton via flickr A perfect example of how the cost of electricity from fossil fuels isn’t fully represented by the price on our bill: A new report from the Clean Air Task Force shows that in the United States particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, not to mention about 9,700 additional hospitalizations and some 20,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hipster Farmers Work For Food

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Working the fields at Tantre Farm In much of North America, our small towns are depopulated and all of the young people leave for the cities. The average age of farmers is about 52 and only about two percent of North Americans are farmers. But this may be changing; Christine Muhlke reports in the New York Times that the hottest internship going is on the farm. She visits Tantre Farms in Michigan and finds it full of yo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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