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Building a Culture of Mass Resistance to Climate Disruption
Without question, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization essential to the Southern-based civil rights movement of the 1960’s. If SNCC had not come forward, that movement never would have won the victories that it did. SNCC was youth-based and youth-led. It was the most uncompromising, most risk-taking, most participatory and democratic and […]
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Cavepeople invented recycling
Researchers found 200,000-year-old flint chips in a cave that SOMEBODY (Bam-Bam?!) repurposed as silverware.
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Banksy sold original prints on the streets of NYC for $60
He didn't advertise them as anything other than "spray art."
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Man shoots beloved neighborhood bear Audrey for no good reason
Killing a bear if it's threatening you makes sense. Killing a bear that's eating your trash does not.
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Ask Umbra: Can you help us find a super new pooper?
A reader wonders which loo to choose: composting or septic. Umbra puts on her boots and wades in.
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Why GMO labeling won’t increase food prices
Big Ag argues food costs would rise if Washington state votes to label GMOs. Here's a closer look at why those claims are false.
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Swedish co-op creates a stake for women in wind industry
Once dismissed as "sewing circle," a women-only co-op has grown to 80 members and has invested more than $1.5 million in wind projects.
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Could this 2013 Nobel laureate afford college today?
Randy Schekman, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in medicine, says access to affordable, publicly supported higher education was crucial to his success. Can today's scientific talent even afford to pursue a career like his?
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For energy efficiency, Americans deserve a big thumbs-up
Even as America's economy and population continue to grow, its energy appetite is falling. That's thanks to big efficiency gains.
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Banksy’s latest project shows screaming stuffed animals being taken to slaughter
The street artist is sending a truckload of squealing puppets on a tour of the Meatpacking District.
