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Earth community: Can knowledge of the universe make better environmentalists?
A multimedia education project hopes that telling the history of the universe and life on Earth will inspire us to work more effectively toward a sustainable future.
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Friday music blogging: Pickathon 2012
Last week, for the second year running, I attended a music festival called Pickathon on a sprawling organic farm in Happy Valley, Oregon. Once again, I dragged my whole family and met up with a large group of old friends. Once again, it was an absolute joy. I gushed on and on about Pickathon last […]
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A moment of appreciation for activists taking a big step for a tiny bird
Working to improve the planet is tedious and thankless. So a quick word of thanks.
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There might be way more lead in your tap water than you think
An EPA effort to reduce the amount of lead in our water systems may inadvertently have made the problem worse in some cases.
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California sees gas prices rise, electricity strained because of karma
No, seriously, we love California! Sorry about Prop 13.
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Bears will eat you because of global warming
Bears don’t want to eat you — they just want to be left alone to ride unicycles, eat porridge, and be depressing in John Irving novels. But what with the droughts and heat waves, their normal food is scarce and they’re being forced to break into houses and eat chocolate, candy, and beer. Eventually, they’re […]
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The Gates Foundation just bought 50 gallons of fake poo
Bill Gates is into scat. His foundation is hard at work on a new space-age toilet, and to test the prototypes, it just bought 50 gallons of soybean-based fake feces from a soybean-based fake feces company. That’s some of it up above, sitting a lot closer to a dude’s hand than I’d want it to […]
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As corn crops shrivel, Americans look to a savior: Facebook
The USDA projects the lowest corn yield since 1995 -- unless Facebook users get going with rain dances.
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Can’t-miss summer reading for sustainable food fans
From academic anthologies to personal journeys, here are some of the latest books fueling the good food movement.
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Fingers in its ears and singing loudly, the Wall Street Journal reports on the hottest July ever
Not that the newspaper is willfully lying to its customers, but we suggest you not let it sell you a parrot.
