Climate Culture
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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 […]
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Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too
A big article in The New York Times examines single motherhood and poverty, but fails to mention birth control. That's quite the omission.
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Amazing tiny apartment has a bathtub under the dining table
This Barcelona flat might be our favorite tiny apartment yet.
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This truck travels the country collecting stories about seeds
Seeds are natural beginnings for stories: From a small start, they grow into a larger world and eventually end. They’re also good subjects of stories: Where did they come from? Who loved them enough to keep them around? How’d they reach the person who planted them in the ground? What happened when they went viral […]
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Umbra’s second helpings: Planning dream vacations
A reader wants to see the world without destroying it. Umbra shares some green trip tips.
