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Food bikes combine our two favorite things
From bakeries on wheels in Pittsburgh to mobile taquerias in Oakland, brewers, chefs, baristas, and farmers alike are turning to bikes.
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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!
