• It's not easy being green

    Need to Know correspondent Mona Iskander updates her report from Greenville, Mich., about a town that tried to reinvent itself by bringing in a solar-panel manufacturing company.
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Need to Know correspondent Mona Iskander updates her report about a town that tried to reinvent itself by bringing in a solar-panel manufacturing company, and David Biello discusses the future of the American solar power industry. Jeff Greenfield hosts.
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Environment

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Poll: Green futures
Should we invest more in green technology? Vote in our poll.
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Environment

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  The future of solar energy
Scientific American's David Biello talks to Jeff Greenfield about what Uni-Solar's bankruptcy means for the U.S. solar industry.
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  American Voices: David Kipen
The former director of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts talks about the value of volunteerism — and the threat it poses to working people.
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Pitch room

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Election 2012: What do you need to know?
What are the issues you’d like to see us explore this summer?
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Culture

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'The final frontier for full civil equality'
Columnist Dan Savage on how marriage equality would change the lives of same-sex couples and why this issue has become so important to the LGBT movement.
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Culture

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  From paper to pixels
Editorial cartoonists like Steve Brodner are fighting to stay relevant in the increasingly digital mediascape of infographics, photo memes and data visualizations.
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Security

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  The drone next door
What has mainly been an aerial asset for the U.S. military in countries like Afghanistan or Pakistan is now being used increasingly on the home front – raising some serious legal questions about how to best balance citizens’ rights with law-enforcement goals.
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