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Ask Umbra: How do I avoid cheap plastic spray bottles?
A reader says she’s littering the planet with her discarded spritzers. Umbra gets all misty eyed.
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Romancing the bike: The seduction of pedal-powered transport
Why don’t Americans ride like the rest of the world? We don’t understand what other countries do: Biking isn’t just good for you, it’s fun, easy, and good for your love life.
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Coal dependent: Pacific Northwest activists fight new export terminals
Local organizers are building big coalitions to keep the region from becoming a massive transfer station for toxic coal exports.
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Co-operative farming from El Salvador to Kentucky [VIDEO]
Meet a farmer who's brought the co-operative farming method from his home in El Salvador to Louisville, Ky., where he coordinates a large urban farm.
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Nine out of 10 psychos agree: Heartland’s bonkers climate billboards need company!
The Heartland Institute's billboard campaign linking belief in climate change to mass murder and global genocide ended way too soon! We're remedying that. Herewith, more psychos and maniacs share moments of zen and proven wisdom.
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Friday music blogging: Alabama Shakes
No band in the last five years has gotten as much early hype as the Alabama Shakes. In fact, the hype was so thick that I put off listening to them for quite a while, unsure that the world needed another soul-rock-revival novelty band. But I finally got around to listening, and damn if they […]
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Cure and simple: How to make your own bacon and charcuterie
Want to learn how to preserve that local pasture-raised meat? These recipes for homemade bacon and green chile chicken sausages should get you hooked.
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R.I.P. Adam Yauch, musician and activist
Adam Yauch, aka MCA, was the co-founder and beating progressive heart of the Beastie Boys, who not only made some of the most defining music of the 1980s and ’90s but were among the first celebrities (at least in my memory) to go activist without sacrificing their cool. Yauch, who died today at the criminally […]
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Brace yourself for tomorrow’s supermoon
Saturday is the night to engage in your moon-related activities — blow it up, write your name on it, release your singing marmoset creatures, whatever — because you’ll have a pretty good view. It’s a “supermoon,” where the moon is closer to earth in its orbit than normally — and it’s going to be the […]
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BLM announces draft of ‘common sense’ rules for fracking
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just released a draft [PDF] of its new rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands. These rules were last revised in 1988, and they’re being updated to deal with the current fracking boom (the BLM says 90 percent of new wells going in on public land are using fracking). […]
