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Fancy new sustainable cement is made of old busted toilets
What happens when your crapper becomes a piece of crap? Hopefully it gets turned into sustainable concrete.
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This beautiful tiny house looks like an orange and was built for less than $9,000
Steve Areen built the fruit-inspired orange dome on a Thai mango farm using blocks of compressed dirt.
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Blades of gory: Teaching kids to slice and dice
An author suggests children learn to use a kitchen knife -- and provokes more plaudits than protests. Has overprotective parenting peaked?
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We might get a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth producer Lawrence Bender is in talks to make a sequel to 2006's biggest movie about a slideshow.
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Director Werner Herzog hates chickens but loves KFC
Herzog recently noted in a Reddit thread that "I like [chickens] Kentucky Fried." But that's the only way he likes them.
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This project has rescued more than 800 endangered baby penguins in six months
Parent African penguins were abandoning their little ones because the babies were too small or sick.
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Pedestrians used to be America’s sports stars — complete with endorsements and doping scandals
Athletes would walk 500 miles’ worth of loops around what’s now Madison Square Garden, only stopping on Sundays.
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Ask Umbra: Good gracious, is there lead in my fine china?
A reader isn’t sure what to do with her antique dinnerware. Umbra nixes food on the china.
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The untold story of deforestation: Slothageddon
Monique Pool loves sloths. But, when she opened her home to 200 sloths, even she got slothified.
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These little hacks make cities more sustainable and fun
Rotten Apple turns ordinary and forgotten city objects into usable, sustainable mini-hacks.