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Your pants can now suck pollution right out of the air
A laundry additive can turn your jeans into nitrogen-eating superjeans, according to its creators.
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Jonathan Franzen defends Obama presidency on green grounds
Best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen endorses Barack Obama, citing his environmental track record.
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Could public urination be good for the environment?
An urban-planning think tank pops up for one day in San Francisco, sharing fun ideas like fruit fences and "garden urinals."
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The Navy will convert seawater to fuel — with the help of a little atomic fission
Don't go putting this in the "green" column just yet. Or the "a thing that will happen" column.
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New York is rehabilitating criminals using bees
Prisoners are being taught the basics of beekeeping. The idea being, one supposes, that after they get out of jail they will start selling honey instead of drugs.
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Is this beluga really trying to talk like people?
This definitely sounds more like human speech than whalesong! Though it sounds more like a vuvuzela solo than either.
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A group of investors wants to make tar-sands extraction greener
One good way to do that, not mentioned: don't extract tar sands.
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These chairs are eco-friendly but they look like crystallized barf
! great object lesson in why conscientiousness alone is not enough to change people’s habits.
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Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change
We surveyed 21 endorsements in major newspapers around the country and found that only two mentioned climate change at all.
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Despite student protests, college plans to serve beloved oxen as dinner
Lou and Bill lived a good life at Green Mountain College, one of the more green-minded campuses in America.
