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Watch this video and you will never need to waste an apple core again
All those times you ended an apple with a spitty, chewed-up core in your hand could have been avoided.
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The Recycled Orchestra is heartwarming and also a little depressing, maybe?
The Recycled Orchestra teaches kids to play instruments made of trash. Which is awesome, even if some of the messaging makes us kind of uncomfortable.
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Your lipstick probably has lead in it
Maybe you were born with unsafe levels of lead in your body. But maybe it's Maybelline.
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Ask Umbra: How can I convince my alma mater to go fossil-free?
A reader wonders if he can help the college kids who are fighting for the climate. Umbra gives him the full freshman orientation.
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In Sri Lanka, a tsunami-torn family still depends on the sea
In 2004, a tsunami killed eight members of this small fishing family. And yet today, they still fish because they have to do it to survive.
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A Chinese group has been selling fox and rat meat as mutton
This isn't the only group selling sketchy meat in China: Police say they've arrested 904 people for similar offenses.
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Flower power: Fighting the Man with guerrilla gardens
Grist’s green-living pioneer sets out like a modern-day, anarchist Janie Appleseed, lobbing "seed bombs" in an effort to pretty up her city.
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Tourists are making stingrays fat, mean, and insomniac
Stingrays bring huge amounts of tourism money into the Cayman Islands. And what do they get in return? A crappy diet and a messed-up sleep schedule.
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Go (slightly) greener by getting your groceries delivered
You could halve the carbon footprint of your grocery shopping by sitting back and letting somebody else deliver the goods to your door, a new study finds.
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These flowerpot roof tiles let you make any roof into a green roof
The designer says the idea is about "transforming a stone city to an overgrown city" and that the tiles are "stepping stones for wildlife in the city."
