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Video: A 15-foot sideways geyser erupts in Paulsen’s Washington, D.C. office

By Chris Steller | 02.23.09 | 4:48 pm

paulsen-leak-stillA leak was discovered in U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen’s Washington, D.C., office today. (Literally, as Vice President Joe Biden would say.) See a video clip shot (and nicely edited!) by Paulsen’s young, giggling staff. The clip, posted after…

Give Presence — and solve the water crisis this Christmas

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.03.08 | 4:12 pm

Americans spend $450 billion on Christmas every year. What it’d cost to ensure clean water for everyone in the world: $10 billion. That’s part of the message of a new video by the Advent Conspiracy, which urges a…

Good to the last drip: Minneapolis to spend $180,000 to market its (wait for this) tap water

By Chris Steller | 05.21.08 | 12:25 pm

Never mind the bottles: It’s the tap water. You can forget whatever you’ve heard about the coming water wars — the water marketing wars are already here.

The Minneapolis City Council’s Transportation and Public Works…

Environmentalists — and fish — warming to nuclear power?

By Dan Haugen | 02.22.08 | 11:17 am

As some environmentalists reconsider nuclear power, it turns out fish are warming to nuclear, too. An interesting energy tidbit in a Rochester Post-Bulletin article about an ice-fishing tournament last weekend on Lake Pepin:

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