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This beer coaster can grow into a tree
It’s a little too easy to create a ton of waste while you’re getting wasted. Unless you’re near a store that provides growlers or you invest in a keg, drinking a lot of beer creates a lot of empty beer cans. And if you happen to be drinking at one of those bars that hands […]
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Security hawks should be freaked about population growth
Civil conflicts tend to crop up in countries with lots of young people and not enough jobs. See: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and the Palestinian territories.
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Ask Umbra: Should I buy a refurbished laptop for college?
A reader asks if it does the planet any good to buy a used computer rather than a new one. Umbra takes a byte out of the question.
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This kid is Grist’s new hero
This photo is from 2011, but we just saw it going around the internet, and we kind of want a poster to hang up in the office.
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Spectacular image of the Southern Lights from space
If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth.
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‘Water cafe’ sells filtered bottled tap water and nothing else
Bottled water is often just tap water in a bottle. A new store is basing their entire business plan on that concept: They sell nothing but bottled tap water.
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Map shows where the biggest couch potatoes live (and it’s NOT the U.S.!)
A group of researchers looked at health surveys covering 89 percent of the world’s population and came to a surprising conclusion — Americans are not the least active people on the planet. Six in 10 of us get “30 minutes of moderate exercise five days a week,” “20 minutes of vigorous exercise three days a […]
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Know ‘The Story of Stuff?’ Watch ‘The Story of Change’
In her newest video, "The Story of Change," Annie Leonard argues that conscious consumerism is a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop.
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From muumuu to Miu Miu: Turning thrift-store rejects into cute couture (SLIDESHOW)
Watch Jillian Owens transform old doozies into fashion do's.
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‘Weed dating’ is like speed dating, but dirtier
I don’t know what you all look for in a mate, but if one of those qualities is “a willingness to trade farm labor for the possibility of romance,” you might skip speed dating and go for “weed dating.” The AP explains: Typically, speed daters meet at a bar or restaurant and switch conversational partners […]
