Articles by Sarah Laskow
Sarah Laskow is a reporter based in New York City who covers environment, energy, and sustainability issues, among other things.
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At Etsy, even the trash travels by bike
If this were a Portlandia sketch, you’d think it was too unrealistic.
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This is what four decades of Amazon deforestation looks like. (Spoiler: It’s bad)
NASA satellites might capture some amazing images of the Earth's surface, but they capture some incredibly depressing shots, too.
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If this photo doesn’t make you want to live in a tiny house, nothing will
We love us a good tiny house, but you know what is better than your run-of-the-mill tiny house? A tiny house on a tiny rock. A tiny house on a tiny rock in the middle of a river. With a kayak your only connection to land.
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Awesome idea: Require a cycling test to get a driver’s license
As a cyclist, sharing the road with cars is scary, for obvious reasons: They’re gigantic metal objects moving fast enough to kill you. But as a driver, sharing the roads with cyclists is also kinda scary. Most drivers are good people who don’t want to kill anyone while they’re out doing errands, but they don’t […]
