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Umbra’s second helpings: Keeping your cool without air-conditioning
A reader wonders about the best ways to beat the heat. Umbra has plenty of suggestions for this hot topic.
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Umbra’s second helpings: How to recycle beer bottles with limes
Can you recycle beer bottles with lime wedges? Umbra tosses back an answer.
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Chicken soup for the soil: Cleaning up toxic earth in Philadelphia [VIDEO]
This video follows an experimental soil-focused art project in Philadelphia with a goal of one day making contaminated "brownfields" safe to farm on.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Untangling the garden hose problem
A reader wonders how to find a hose that's not made of PVC plastics. Umbra's not going to water down this answer.
