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Green Power: How Citizens United Changed the Climate Change Conversation
“Climate change was once a bipartisan issue,” according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) in an email interview with BPR. In the...
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Nov 8, 20153 min read


Green Wallets, Green Lawns: The New Worth of Water in California
There’s something strange happening in a small California town called Montecito. This luxurious, beachside suburb of LA, home to...
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Apr 27, 20154 min read


Battles Beneath the Surface
From the Alamo to Gettysburg, the battlefields of the United States’ many wars are commonplace across the country. Whether big or small,...
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Apr 8, 20155 min read


BPR Interviews: Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is a professor of...
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Dec 22, 20146 min read


Keystone Light
Art by Katrina Machado. From the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the notorious Keystone XL pipeline has divided the United States...
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Dec 3, 20144 min read


BPR Media Spotlight: People’s Climate March
In the early afternoon on September 21, about 400,000 people congregated in the streets of New York City for the People’s Climate March....
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Nov 6, 20141 min read


Professor Podcast: Cornelia Dean
BPR’s Madeleine Matsui sat down with Cornelia Dean ’69, Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies and a science writer for...
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Oct 30, 20141 min read


Bringing Home the Bakken
South Dakota might have one Washington on Mount Rushmore, but North Dakota has pockets lined with Benjamins. The state is experiencing an...
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Oct 22, 20146 min read


A Watershed Moment: Californian Droughts Invite Compromise
It is abundantly clear to anyone visiting California this year that the state is in the midst of a catastrophe. The Central Valley is...
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Sep 24, 20144 min read


Polar Bears and Butterflies; Donkeys and Elephants
“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” said political strategist Chris Lehane, “We are going to be talking...
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Sep 8, 20149 min read


The Hidden Cost of the Emerald Cash Crop
Ed Rosenthal, well-known marijuana legalization activist. The Emerald Triangle has been looking more brown than green recently. With...
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Mar 16, 20147 min read


Solving Climate Change, Conservatively
Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, spoke to members of the Brown community Tuesday about climate change....
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Mar 22, 20132 min read
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