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Umbra’s second helpings: Unplug your vampire appliances [VIDEO]

Your chargers and appliances are sucking your wallet dry, says Grist’s eco-advice columnist. Here’s how to put a stake through their hearts.

Who do greens think is the greenest president?

Corporate Knights magazine recently surveyed enviro groups for opinions on which president was greenest. Find out the surprising results.

Low-income smokers in New York drop 25 percent of their income on cigarettes

Almost 40 percent of cigarette taxes collected in New York come from those earning $30,000 a year or less.

Shell building world’s biggest ship that will sail on ever-higher seas

It will be a floating natural gas refinery, since we need more of those.

Forecast for 2100: Massive rainstorms in the tropics

For each degree the tropics warm, rainfall extremes will get 10 percent worse. This is why we shouldn't teach math in school. It can be scary.

This guy runs the Fight Club of libraries outside his front door

For more than a decade, Hernando Guanlao, of Manila, has run the Fight Club of reading out of his home library. The BBC reports: The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want — even permanently. As Guanlao says: “The only rule is that there […]

Climate change T-shirt is (almost) the star of London’s fashion week

Fashion Icon Vivienne Westwood vamps it up DIY style at London's fashion week. Does she care? Or is she just being mad trendy?

If you are good at running, it can be faster than taking the subway

Still, we are going to vote for keeping the subway.

Russia has secret diamond reserves worth one quadrillion dollars

Russia discovers diamonds, keeps them a secret, then finally tells everyone what great diamonds these are.

Ditch your car this week! We double-dog dare you

Around the world this week, people are spurning their cars in favor of buses, bikes, and their own two feet. Are you up for the challenge, America?