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What San Francisco would look like after a 200-foot sea-level rise

This poster, by Brian Stokle and Burrito Justice, shows what a 200-foot sea level rise would do to San Francisco. Better get to high ground, guys.

Farm rentals, dumpster dives: Europe crisis is mother of invention

Two small examples of how Europeans are responding to ongoing economic uncertainty. Inspiring? Depends on how you look at it.

Giraffe invades country club pool

Get out of there, giraffe! You are not Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps! You are a giraffe!

Oh, great: OPEC considers cutting production to boost oil prices

We can certainly all agree that a fossil fuel-based economy run by a cartel is the best way to do things, right?

Quite possibly the best bike-for-sale ad ever

A dude in San Luis Obispo is giving up on his hipster dreams, and therefore on his fixie. Result: one of the funnier bike-for-sale Craigslist ads we've seen.

Umbra’s second helpings: How to recycle beer bottles with limes

Can you recycle beer bottles with lime wedges? Umbra tosses back an answer.

Canadian high-schooler makes her own graduation dress out of old homework

Kara Koskowich is going to take the world by storm. Girlfriend just graduated from high school in Canada, and instead of shelling out for a fancy graduation dress, she decided to reuse old homework and post-it notes to make one herself: The dress took almost 75 pieces of paper to make, Koskowich said. She started […]

Crowdsourced solar gets a nod — and a check — from the Department of Energy

Oakland's Solar Mosaic received a grant of up to $2 million to bring it's crowdsourced solar installation model to scale.

Got food scraps? Hail a ‘Compost Cab’

This Washington, D.C.-based service picks up urban food waste and delivers it to urban farms for composting.

U.S. market for solar likely to double this year

Cheap prices and incentives from the federal and state governments lead to an additional 3.3 gigawatts of solar power this year.