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Fit in with the masses with this reusable tote that looks like a plastic bag
If those reusable “I am not a plastic bag” totes earn glances of hippie-hating scorn from the populace, the THANK YOU THANK YOU bag helps green-minded people blend into the crowd while still sticking to their principles.
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Umbra’s second helpings: Making a stink about infrequent showering
A reader wonders if she should make her young sons bathe more frequently. Umbra comes clean.
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Plucking delicious: Last-minute foraging for a dinner party
Grist's green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, picked a foraging theme for a small dinner party with friends. Here's what she cooked up.
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The greenest Fourth of July
Fireworks displays are powered by fossil fuels and chemicals. Luckily, nature offers a captivating green alternative: lightning bugs.
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Media ignore climate change in reporting on wildfires
Only 3 percent of reports on Western wildfires by major TV and print outlets mention climate change, according to a new report by Media Matters.
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Do fireworks kill birds?
An illegal fireworks display in Arkansas killed up to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, but is that sort of carnage likely to happen where you live?
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Ask Umbra: Who doesn’t celebrate the Fourth of July with rats and dandruff?
Readers launch a volley of questions at our green advice columnist. She responds with a veritable anthem of eco-smarts.
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The news pays almost 50 times more attention to Kardashians than to ocean acidification
It’s probably not a huge surprise that ocean acidification, a carbon-induced chemical change that poses a huge threat to sea life, gets way less media coverage than the Kardashians, a family of prancing ninnies that poses a huge threat to intellectual life. But Media Matters has quantified just how much the coverage differs, and it’s […]
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These amazing lamps are made of salt
If Daniel McDonald’s Shio lamps didn’t cost $475 and up, they could do double duty seasoning your food or attracting deer. At this price point, you probably want to preserve them, unless you’re Tony Stark or something — but the point is, the lamps are made of salt crystals, grown on a fabric base like […]
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Health care and sustainability, part deux: More …
Reax to the Supreme Court's ruling from Van Jones, Alex Steffen, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, and Gary Hirshberg.
