Climate Culture
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This sausage prank exposes our weird food issues
A butcher pretends to put piglets into a sausage machine. Madness ensues.
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Roadkill fur is flat-out the hottest fashion trend of the season
We got over the Carmani ick factor pretty quickly with this sobering stat: A million animals end up dead on U.S. roadsides every day.
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11 ways to fall in love with humble, spicy daikon this winter
How to use this large root in more ways than you thought possible.
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Of course Portland wants you to bike to the airport
Cycling to PDX can even offset about 1 percent of your flight's carbon emissions.
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Aaron Sorkin tackles climate change on “The Newsroom” and … oy
It is not in fact true that we're doomed to face a "catastrophic failure of the planet."
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Thanksgiving leftovers? Nah. Turkey empanadas? You bet.
Food that’s not eaten still has a climate impact, after all, and beyond that, pie in the trash in an honest-to-God crime.
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Shopping tips for the eco-minded dresser
A reader wonders where to look for the greenest threads. Umbra stitches together a plan.
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This entrepreneur turns leftover cafeteria food into hot meals for hungry people
Ben Simon is the cofounder of a nonprofit that redistributes leftover campus dining hall food to the hungry.
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Join a Buy Nothing group and feel warm ‘n’ fuzzy
The Buy Nothing Project has launched more than 300 local Facebook groups that make it easy for people to share things with their neighbors.
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Watch this turkey run away from Thanksgiving in slow motion
Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be America's national bird -- if he'd had this amazing video on his side, he might have won.