Latest Articles
-
Jamba Juice is fighting childhood obesity, because logic
Jamba Juice is worse for you than a Coke, but the chain wants you to buy a $1 smoothie for Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.
-
Shocker: Douchebag du jour Pax Dickinson hates enviros, bikes, and vegans
Business Insider's (now fired) CTO just reached a new level of douchebaggery. Turns out he also scoffs at anyone "passionate about environmental justice."
-
One day your Gatorade could be dyed with potato juice
Start counting the days until a bunch of unnaturally bright red, pink, or purple products are touted as "all natural."
-
Here are the (animated!) rules you should follow to live in NYC or any other city
Even though they're supposed be about New York, they are sort of just good advice for life.
-
![]()
![]()
Underground parking: The black market, apps, and future of car storage
In cities across the U.S., drivers are renting, borrowing, and tracking parking spots.
-
Bike lanes really do help cars go faster
This is one of those moments of bike triumphalism where we get to say: We told you so!
-
![A rice paddy.]()
![A rice paddy.]()
There’s arsenic in your rice, but don’t worry about it, says FDA
The Food & Drug Administration tested 1,300 samples of rice and found arsenic in them all, but only in very small amounts.
-
Nearly 48,000 suing BP over toxic pollution from Texas refinery
BP vented 500,000 pounds of chemicals from a refinery in 2010. Now it's being sued by neighbors who had to breathe that carcinogenic cocktail.
-
![Flood Street, New Orleans]()
![Flood Street, New Orleans]()
New Orleans has a radical new plan for managing floods
Instead of trying to pump out all floodwater, officials want to corral it into areas that serve as parks during drier times. Rain gardens, bioswales, and canals will help too.
-
U.S. Nuclear Power in Decline
By J. Matthew Roney Nuclear power generation in the United States is falling. After increasing rapidly since the 1970s, electricity generation at U.S. nuclear plants began to grow more slowly in the early 2000s. It then plateaued between 2007 and 2010—before falling more than 4 percent over the last two years. Projections for 2013 show […]
