Dharna Noor
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Green Housing Can Be Beautiful — and Cheap
A stretch of land controlled by the Squamish Nation in Vancouver will soon be home to a beautiful, green high-rise. The 11-tower development, called Sen̓áḵw, will include 6,000 new housing units, most of which will be rentals, including several hundred set aside for tribe members. Last year, 87% of the nation voted in favour of…
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A Tiny Alabama Company Owns More Gas Wells Than Exxon
A Birmingham-based oil and gas producer called Diversified Energy has built its business model on buying up old, low-producing gas wells which are spewing out methane, reporting from Bloomberg shows. The wells are largely not very productive — thousands of them were producing no usable gas at all at the time of purchase. But thanks…
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The ABCs of Big Oil: The Father of Forestry’s Influence on Big Oil
On the ABCs of Big Oil, a new podcast miniseries from Earther and Drilled, climate journalist Amy Westervelt and I have spent two episodes looking into the oil and gas industry’s century-long assault on American education; how it has shaped school curricula to limit how Americans think about the climate crisis and how to take…
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Salute 480 Otis, Our Four-Time Fat Bear King
It’s official: 480 Otis is 2021’s burliest bear. Bow down.