The average teacher earns around $72,000 a year, with the amount varying widely by state. Adjusted for inflation, teachers make 5% less on average than they did a decade ago.
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Wind power does much more than reduce pollution by supplying an abundance of clean energy; it reduces dependence on volatile fossil fuel markets and helps to lower and stabilize costs for consumers.
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It takes a lot of energy to mine for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, so if crypto really does become a mainstream currency, then we will need to find less energy-intensive ways to mine it.
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With scientists discovering massive sources of energy — like geothermal and hydrogen-based fuels — underground, it now begs the question of whether or not we should be digging further and further into our Earth.
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The Malaysian government is spending $100 billion on a “city of the future.” When successful, developments like these can lead to innovation in the ways we shop, commute, and power our homes — but when they fail, the sunk costs can be massive.
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The world’s richest 1% of people produce as much carbon pollution as roughly two-thirds of the rest of the world combined. But billionaires also have the power and resources to enact much more change than the average person.
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