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Look out, ladies: Biking can damage your vagina
Extremely hunched-over biking (you know, racing style) can numb your vagina and damage nature's dance hall, the pelvic floor.
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Check out Nestle’s new bottled water for fancy rich ladies
Because if you're drinking tap water, CLEARLY you hate yourself and have no friends.
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Say bye-bye to cheap food
Climate change, degraded land, growing populations, and rising energy costs will continue to bite into the affordability of food, the U.N. is warning.
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New tool shows you how much money you can save by switching to an electric car
On average, it costs $2.51 more to fill a car with a gallon of gas than to charge an electric car to go the same distance. This tool shows you how much you can save in your state.
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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
By Janet Larsen and J. Matthew Roney The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production. The gap widened in 2012, with output from fish farming—also called aquaculture—reaching a record 66 million tons, compared with […]
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Awesome bike parking system sucks your ride into the depths of the earth
Instead of paving large swaths of the ground, it stores your ride vertically underneath it.
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BP stops cleanup in three Gulf states — and starts funding a new beachfront hotel
As cleanup efforts conclude (despite tar balls still washing ashore), the focus turns to coastal restoration. Does a hotel count as coastal restoration?
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Muddy today? This beautifully simple bike fender can be installed and removed in seconds
It's made of recycled polypropylene plastic, too.
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Need for coal leasing moratorium reinforced by Department of Interior Inspector General report
A new report from the Department of Interior’s Inspector General highlights several problems with the way DOI gives taxpayer-owned coal to companies like Peabody, Arch, and Cloud Peak Energy, including flaws in the way DOI calculates fair market value (FMV) and a failure to consider increasing coal exports. The report reinforces the need for a […]
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This is the longest 100 percent recycled bridge in the country
OK, it’s still not very long -- only 24.6 feet. But it's sturdy! And it’s 80 percent post-consumer waste!
