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Here’s how to restore a community with your old Christmas tree
Your old, dry Christmas tree can do everything from preserving fish and bird habitats to generating electricity.
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Ask Umbra: Is the thrift shop my only option for socially responsible kids’ clothes?
A reader wants to pop some eco-groovy, fair-trade tags for her toddler. Umbra says one tike's trash is another kid's come-up.
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In Stockholm, a proposal to make snow plowing priorities better for women
One politician wants the city to prioritize sidewalks, public transportation, and areas around day care centers.
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Watch New York’s streets get dramatically better for walkers and cyclists
Sometimes it's hard to remember how bad the status quo used to be.
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These all-natural dishes never need to be washed
You just hold it upside-down over the sink or the garbage can, the food particles slide off, and the plate is clean again.
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Dentist: Chocolate and cola are better than kale juice
No, really: Maybe don't drink kale juice for breakfast every day.
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This lady ate only Starbucks for an entire year
Couldn’t she find a smaller, less evil company to partner with? Maybe one that actually needed the publicity?
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Walmart in China recalls donkey meat because it doesn’t taste like ass
Donkey is a delicacy, but the stuff at Walmart may contain fox meat filler.
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Portland made it through 2013 with zero bike fatalities
Biking in a city, with big cars and trucks zooming by, can be frightening. But it shouldn't be.
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This plastic is made out of carbon sucked from the air
Scientists have known for a while that this process is possible; it just wasn't this cheap.
