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‘Water cafe’ sells filtered bottled tap water and nothing else

Bottled water is often just tap water in a bottle. A new store is basing their entire business plan on that concept: They sell nothing but bottled tap water.

U.S. Navy unveils its ‘great green fleet’ with some red-white-and-blue machismo

Exercises near Hawaii reveal that the U.S. Navy is committed to both biofuels and zingers.

Here is a very, very gross picture of mayflies

My first thought when looking at this photo (posted by Reddit user ILikeWhereThisIsGoin, who probably doesn’t) was “oh, a lawnmower must have exploded! Look at all those grass clippings. All those perfectly innocuous, not-alive grass clippings.” But no, that’s just thousands and thousands of mayflies. Still perfectly innocuous, in the sense that they won’t hurt […]

City officials are waging a war on gardens

We've heard one too many stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves.

Seven graphs that should make the Obama campaign very nervous

The drought means higher food prices. Higher food prices mean more concern about the economy. And that means trouble for an incumbent president.

Farmer spends $100,000 on waterbeds for cows

[protected-iframe id=”fd779d2d5dfa2bc178edb19793ecb62a-5104299-30166106″ info=”http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=KGW” width=”470″ height=”264″] Even on a small, family-owned dairy farm, life as a milk cow looks not so great. I mean, you do spend a lot of time standing around in a stall with devices attached to your nipples. That’s cool if it’s your thing, and if there are enough of you who […]

Soot Hearings: Speaking Out For Public Health

On Tuesday, hundreds of Philadelphia residents rallied and spoke at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing on new safeguards to cut deadly soot pollution nationwide. Today, many more will rally at another soot hearing in Sacramento. I grew up in the Smoky Mountains, where – believe it or not – dangerous levels of air pollution sometimes […]

People who don’t accept climate change also don’t accept that it’s hot

If you want people to accept climate change because it's hot outside, first you have to get them to accept that it's hot outside.

How to make a tiny car: Just cut a regular car in half

Look, it still totally works!

Flying the coop: The scrambled world of backyard poultry

Dream of nesting down with a flock of chickens, but too intimidated to try it? Our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, discovers it’s not as hard as you think.