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A Thai activist, reformed investment banker, and feminist beer: It’s Woman Crush Wednesday
This week, our roundup of badass women in the news also includes a marine scientist building a coral sperm bank and a Detroit public schools worker.
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Meet the United States of divided climate beliefs
These maps present America as a predictable, confusing, frightening, and utterly fascinating mess. We call her Mavis.
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Help me pack the greenest picnic basket
A reader is trying to avoid plastic picnicware. Umbra forks over the goods.
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This sea creature has a huge manatee-crush on Leonardo DiCaprio
If manatees could use emojis, this one would be all heart-eyes for Leo and his new eco-resort.
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Watch Wisconsin foodies go beyond cheese
Wisconsinites make salami, harvest cranberries, and cook up Laotian curry.
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Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are
The author argues in a New Yorker essay that our climate obsession is dooming birds, which is pretty much all wrong.
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Are your reusable grocery bags making you fat?
A Harvard Business School study found a trend: Shoppers with reusable bags were more likely to buy treats for themselves.
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New U.S.-Canada bridge will carve through one of Detroit’s loneliest neighborhoods
Delray residents, already hit hard by one urban freeway, wonder if they'll get anything in return this time.
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A bishop, a sex-ed trailblazer, and the Notorious RBG herself: It’s Woman Crush Wednesday
This week, our roundup of badass women in the news also includes an Afrofuturist hip-hop duo and fearless South Korean seafood divers.
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Knight Foundation gives cities $5M for floating farms and fuzzy hats
The Knight Foundation just wrote $5 million in checks to support all manner of urban awesomeness.