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We’d love these new fair-trade sustainable condoms, if the marketing weren’t kinda sexist
Men don't care about sustainability! They just want a condom brand that sounds like a monster truck rally.
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New York could turn its trash into giant floating compost islands
Here's one quirky solution to NYC's problem of trucking waste to landfills out of state.
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It only takes otters 25 years to recover from an oil spill
This means marine life could fully recover from the BP oil spill in ... let’s see ... 2035!
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Henry David Thoreau would have given “12 Years a Slave” the Oscar for best picture, too
The 19th-century naturalist and political philosopher argued that slavery laid waste to the American landscape -- and not just in the South.
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Naples is cleaning up its streets by DNA-testing dog poop and tracking down the perpetrators
We Yanks aren’t off the hook, either -- communities in more than 40 states are testing dog dung to help stamp out crap.
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South Korea wants to put endangered species in gigantic bubbles
The giant translucent Easter eggs are supposed to "blend harmoniously within the surrounding environment."
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Cabin fever: Are tiny houses the new American dream?
Tiny houses have seemingly taken over the landscape of aspirational real estate, and not just for the green-minded. What's the appeal?
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Everything that’s wrong with the suburbs, in one image
But the point of these maps isn’t -- believe it or not -- to give city-dwellers one more reason to gloat.
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Endangered slow lorises are fighting back, starting by biting Lady Gaga
The slow loris may be an adorable, big-eyed creature that you want to tickle, but it’s done taking your crap.
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You should be worried about the high levels of weed killer in air and water
A new study says 75 percent of air and rain samples from the Mississippi Delta contained Roundup.
