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Breathtaking video of Earth seen from space
[vimeo 44801709] It’s worth cleaning off your monitor before you watch this extraordinary video — full-screen, of course — so there’s no dust or smudges interfering with your sense that you’re hovering over the glowing planet as it turns beneath you.
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Life-size LEGO garden sprouts up in Australia
In the Age of the Anthropocene, nature is what humans make it. LEGO took this idea quite literally when it graced the Australian town of Broken Hill, in New South Wales, with these giant versions of LEGO flowers and trees.
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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 […]
