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Wild plants: The best ingredients you didn’t know you had
Plucking seemingly random weeds out of the dirt and sticking them in your mouth may be disconcerting to most city dwellers, but that’s exactly what a group of New Yorkers traveled to New Jersey to do recently.
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A professional forager shares her secrets [SLIDESHOW]
Take a visual foraging tour with the author of the cookbook "Foraged Flavor."
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Are our 15 seconds of fame up, geologically speaking?
Paleontologist Jonathan Payne says we’re not seeing the sixth mass extinction yet. But give us time …
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The Earth is going bald, ice-wise
And there's no magic foam that can bring it back.
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If we can’t end climate change in one grand effort, maybe we can do it in 21 little ones
A new proposals from a team of researchers identifies 21 small steps that could effectively reduce our carbon emissions to sustainable levels.
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Rio cycle: Canadian bikes to Earth Summit (with a little help from trains and buses)
Last January, sustainability planner Naomi Devine set out from Vancouver, British Columbia, planning to ride her bike to the Earth Summit in Brazil. It didn’t work out the way she imagined, but she still made the rest of us look like chumps.
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Japan turns reactors back on — but bulks up on solar
Two big announcements offer a mixed picture of how the nation plans to meet its energy needs.
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What farms can do for cities: A chat with author Sarah Rich
The author talks about her new book, Urban Farms, the difference between a farm and a garden, and how city farmers are moving beyond the trend factor.
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Rio-ality check: Can the Earth Summit be saved?
With just days to go before world leaders arrive in Rio, international talks are sliding toward the lowest common denominator. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
