Climate Culture
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Ask Umbra: What’s the best way to get my local veggies?
A reader wonders about those produce-in-a-box services. Umbra delivers the goods.
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Pornhub is giving America wood … through its reforestation campaign
For every 100 videos watched, Pornhub will plant a tree. This ends soon, so get watchin'! IT'S FOR NATURE.
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Ripe Near Me helps you find (or get rid of) homegrown fruits and veggies in your hood
Here's the digital version of driving past a local raspberry stand.
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Cities, get ready — the tiny houses are coming
How should one fill an awkward, leftover urban space? Put a tiny house on it.
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Public transit’s unlikely advocates? Older Americans
In addition to transit, older adults prioritize grocery stores and parks over big-box stores and malls. Wisdom DOES come with age!
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Farmers vacuum maple syrup out of trees in an attempt to save breakfast
Climate change is screwing with maple syrup. Farmers are trying a new tool to salvage what syrup they can get.
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Should you become a demitarian? (Yeah, probably)
Relax, no one’s eating Demi Moore. Demitarianism means eating half the meat you usually do.
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Wine in cardboard bottles ain’t classy, but you might want to get used to it
Putting wine in bottle-shaped cardboard can cut fuel needs by 80 percent. But will it provoke Judge-y In-Law Side-Eye?!
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Crowdsourcing graffiti: Color+City matches empty walls with street artists
Sign up to donate a blank wall or claim a space as your canvas for 15 days, and make your town a little brighter.
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Super cute Japanese posters encourage proper transit etiquette
Every April, Tokyo gets a new transit safety mascot. This year, it’s an adorable lion reminding you not to hold up the subway with your cake habit.
