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These maps show how rent is too damn high across America
You need to spend a lot of time working to make ends meet on minimum wage.
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What do your mouth and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have in common?
Those tiny, plastic particles really are everywhere.
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Obama tweets it up on climate change and Arctic drilling
Obama's first significant act as @POTUS was to hold a chat on climate change.
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Soda taxes bubbling up all over
Doctors support the idea of taxing sugary beverages, and the state budget could use the money, too.
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Conservationists are putting backpacks on owls — and it is so damn cute
This is about as adorable as it gets, folks.
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The climate movement doesn’t need conservatives
An environmentalist calling for the climate movement to incorporate conservatives is like a fundamentalist pastor calling for the anti–gay marriage movement to incorporate liberals.
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This little clinic is tackling the big problem of rural teen pregnancy
Organizations like Room One are invaluable to the women and girls they serve, but they’re too few and far between.
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Which hardware store is the greenest?
A reader wonders where to get sustainable home-improvement supplies. Umbra is the helpful hardware ham.
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Study says street harassment is everywhere, still sucks
Hollaback! and Cornell University have just published the results of the largest international study of street harassment to date.
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Why are federal dollars financing this thirsty crop in Arizona?
The federal government is propping up cotton farming during the West's water crisis.
