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Make your clothes more delicious with buttons made of recycled food
British designer Hoyan Ip wants you to trim your clothes with food-based embellishments that look like a Fruit Roll-Up someone already ate.
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Powerful New Series Reveals the True Cost of Coal
The first time I watched this is powerful new video, it stopped me in my tracks. It’s the debut video for our latest project, a photo series from Sierra magazine called “The Cost of Coal.” I think you’ll agree — the stories and images of these families who are facing the loss of their homes, […]
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Meet New York Aquarium’s adorable new rescued baby walrus
Baby walrus Mitik is moving to New York, where he'll fit right in, because he has a mustache and likes to head-butt things.
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School cook in Sweden told to make her food less delicious
When you were growing up and you ate your school lunch of disgusting gristle-filled burgers and rubbery pizza and creamed chipped beef, did you ever think that one day there might be a school somewhere where the lunches were too good? Well, such is the case in the magical socialist paradise of Sweden. (You didn’t […]
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These grassroots heroes are fighting for food democracy
The recipients of this year's Food Sovereignty Prize represent the diversity of a powerful global movement promoting healthy food for all.
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Texas city moves 100-year-old tree rather than cut it down
When road construction threatened this 100-year-old, 260-ton oak, League City, Texas stepped up and moved it.
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Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain
Is nothing sacred to coal companies in Appalachia? In a jaw-dropping display of contempt and disregard for the communities and landscapes where they mine coal, three coal companies back in 2009 challenged the listing of West Virginia’s Blair Mountain on the National Register of Historic Places. The companies, including mining behemoths Alpha Natural Resources and […]
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Two Australians will be given a home and bathrobes and forced to get everything else secondhand
Two random people are being told to buy nothing new for a week. We think they'll live, but they might end up in ugly T-shirts and mom jeans.
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Brain-eating parasite has killed at least 10 in Pakistan
Remember when we warned you about the parasite Naegleria fowleri, which causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (in short, eats your brain)? And you were probably all “oh, brain-eating microorganisms, picture from Shaun of the Dead … this is clearly sensationalist nonsense.” Well, you SHOULD HAVE LISTENED, HUH? Because N. fowleri has now caused at least 10 […]
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These cool public benches are made out of cars and propane tanks
Artist Colin Selig makes benches for municipal buildings and parks — and, of course, for rich people’s private courtyards, because a guy’s gotta eat — out of recycled propane tanks and car parts. The bench above is made from a 1968 El Camino. Here’s one of his propane tank benches: And here’s his process:
