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Get mom to smash your iPhone? Thanks to PETA, there’s an app for that
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it's created an app that'll make your neighborhood supermarket smell like a slaughterhouse. Winning!
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Go ahead: Ignore the “latest studies” and savor that chocolate
In picking our diets, we pay far too much attention to basic research into phenomena we barely understand -- and not enough heed to our own senses.
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Defending Clean Energy in Ohio and Beyond
If you watched this week’s episode of Showtime’s climate series Years of Living Dangerously, you saw a fantastic piece by America Ferrera called “Against the Wind” that pierced the veil of the fossil fuel industry’s well-funded operation to try and dismantle state clean energy standards. The episode could not have been more timely, as that […]
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The EPA attempts CPR on its own Civil Rights Act enforcement
The agency has a history of mishandling civil rights cases. New reforms aim to change that, but recent actions don’t inspire confidence.
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Don’t worry about that oil spill, congressman says — we’ve got duct tape
The Republican from Louisiana, who went to the same engineering school as Wile E. Coyote, went on to talk about his plan to patch the Titanic with bubble gum.
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Ask Umbra: Are dogs born to poop wild?
A reader wonders if he can leave his pup's poop on the nature trail. Umbra digs up the evidence.
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That time Lyndon Johnson made a killer case against unbridled growth
Fifty years ago, LBJ gave an amazing speech arguing that America shouldn't pursue economic growth but rather community, nature, leisure time, and happiness.
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Meet me in New York in September, says Bill McKibben — time for a big march
350.org and a coalition of green groups plan a mass September protest in NYC -- just in time for a big U.N. climate conclave.
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Why do you have to walk a mile to cross these streets?
In Burlington, Mass., you have to walk 1.2 miles to find a crosswalk between the mall and the movie theater, even though they’re right across the street.
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The Himalaya shows off how fast it can melt, too
Not wanting to get left behind its bigger bros in the global melt, the "third pole" has also been shedding its icy stocks.
