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What does it mean to ride a bicycle responsibly?
There has never been a unified code of behavior for bicycling, so people have been left to hash it out on the street. With more people riding all the time, that's becoming an issue. So who is really responsible?
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Artificial lighting: even worse for your health than it is for the environment
Just in case you need another reason to turn out the lights: It turns out they mess with your head. A new study has found that spending your evenings in a lit room delays and suppresses the brain's production of melatonin, the hormone that regulates your biological clock (and may have all sorts of other health implications as well).
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Memo to Hu and Obama: water and energy choke points merit time at the China-U.S. summit
Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama. But while the two heads of state focus on resolving what pries them apart, both nations share a dangerous confrontation within their borders over energy demand and water supply -- offering a matchless opportunity for new kinds of cooperation on policy, technology, business, and trade.
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How to date a vegan
Vegans are an elusive breed known for their hotness and dexterity with soy. Want to get frisky with one? Here's how, in Grist's TreeShagger column.
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Sputnik moment: Historic meeting between U.S. and China may spur a clean energy race
In China, a race toward self-reliance and clean energy is certainly on, but the U.S. still needs to make some key changes if it wants to compete.
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In honor of MLK, Jr. Day, my great-grandmother’s pecan pie recipe
In which I make peace with regular old corn syrup, and you should, too.
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Reflections on community gardens and the legacy of MLK
We don't do King's memory justice unless we acknowledge that his work was profoundly unfinished. The class divide he feared has persisted and, in fact, grown more powerful. Perhaps most insidiously, that divide has entrenched itself in our food system.
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USDA releases new nutritional guidelines for school meals
The fight over the federal school lunch program is really a question of social justice for our times. Do the disadvantaged children for whom the program was designed deserve the chance to eat the same quality food as children from families who can afford to shop at a farmers market?
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Ask Umbra on the sustainability and safety of fake meat products
Is trading hot dogs for not dogs better for your health? Is swapping chicken wings for chik’n wings better for the planet? Ask Umbra investigates. Read this if you like meat or are meatless!
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How truly delicious tofu gets made [VIDEO]
Tofu master Minh Tsai of Hodo Soy Beanery in Oakland, Calif. explains how he makes artisanal, organic tofu that even Asians would enjoy eating, in this video by 'Food. Curated.'
