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Watch me get an IUD — for the planet
Sometimes, doing the most sustainable thing for your uterus means you get to go to McDonald's afterward.
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Is there such thing as guilt-free leather?
A reader wonders if faux leather is more ethical than the real stuff. Umbra says she could be suede.
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Quick, go visit the ocean one last time before it dies
We mess with the oceans so much that we may be due for a marine mass extinction, says a new broad study.
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Even Hello Kitty is getting into sustainable food
The cartoon cat moves on from homemaking and Ferris wheel-riding to start her own wildly popular organic farm in Hong Kong.
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Why essential oils could change factory farming
Chickens might soon blow their paychecks in the "Holistic Healing" aisle at Whole Foods -- just like you!
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Why I’ll never have kids, and why you shouldn’t either
Is this really a world you want to bring children into?
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Life on Earth now officially at risk, scientists say
Humans are "eating away at our own life support systems" at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, two new research papers say.
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Oscar nominations: Everything we love (hint: Mark Ruffalo) and hate
We'd like to issue a very warm congratulations to Official Grist Boyfriend Mark Ruffalo.
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Would you rather swim in a river of ammonium or MDMA?
Fracking sites in Pennsylvania or rave rivers in Taiwan -- the choice is yours, river-dweller!
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West Virginia will let schools teach the truth about climate change after all
Last month, West Virginia decided to teach its students to doubt the overwhelming consensus on global warming. Now it's changed course.