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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.
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THEESatisfaction makes music about the planet that actually sounds good
The ladies behind rap duo THEESatisfaction break down a few choice cuts on their latest album, EarthEE.
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After Cesar Chavez: The fight for farmworker rights isn’t over
Chavez helped win farmworkers basic human rights, but they still face unacceptable dangers every day.
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This bloody whaling documentary could teach you something about sustainable food
If you eat meat -- even the humanely raised, locally butchered, lullabied-to-sleep-at-night kind -- there will always be blood, and lots of it.
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What’s the most energy-efficient kind of light?
Candles? Curly-Q bulbs? LEDs? What's an eco-minded reader to do? Umbra's answer is brilliant.