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A few miles away from where the pope addressed Congress, a black community looks for change
The neighborhood's fresh air has long been overtaken by a trash transfer station.
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Are automatic toilets wasteful?
Umbra swirls around the topic of bathrooms, drought, and those seemingly unavoidable gratuitous flushes.
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AP bars reporters from saying “climate skeptic” and “climate denier”
The news agency has changed its style guide and introduced awkward new phrasing to describe people who don't accept climate science.
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Meet Beijing’s weird new trend: Sproutcore
There's a hot new look that you could be yours, and all you need is a sprout growing out of the top of your head.
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Finally, communal freezers offer space to store the whole hog
A group in upstate New York is bringing back the communal freezer.
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Hey, media: Those gentrifying neighborhoods had residents before the yuppies moved in
The New York Times is being racist, classist, and colonialist when it writes about rich white people discovering off-the-radar neighborhoods.
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Celebrate World Car-Free Day, if you can think of a good way to do that
Cities around the globe are shutting down streets to vehicles and letting pedestrians and bikers take over.
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Neuroscience comes to dinner: How brain tweaks could change our diet
Neuroscience used to be a niche field. Now it's changing what and how we eat.
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This video teaches you how to make affordable beauty products in your kitchen
It's time to make your beauty routine a little lighter on the Earth, your body, and your bank account.
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You’ll never believe what these Emmy winners flashed on the red carpet
Hint: It was small and green.
