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Brace yourself for tomorrow’s supermoon
Saturday is the night to engage in your moon-related activities — blow it up, write your name on it, release your singing marmoset creatures, whatever — because you’ll have a pretty good view. It’s a “supermoon,” where the moon is closer to earth in its orbit than normally — and it’s going to be the […]
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Giant plant tags tell you how to care for streetlights, hydrants, and mailboxes
It’s all very well to talk about the urban jungle, but how often are you supposed to water it? Carmichael Collective’s tongue-in-cheek urban plant tags offer care instructions for metropolitan flora like benches, fire hydrants, stop signs, and mailboxes.
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Video game based on Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ promises to be extremely ironic
Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately and suck all the marrow out of life. But if you don’t want to go outside to do that, don’t worry: The Walden experience now comes in video game form! The digital Walden Pond will showcase a first-person point-of-view where you can wander through […]
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Umbra’s second helpings: Keeping your skirt out of your bike chain
Concerned that your frills could get hung up in the works? Our beloved eco-advice columnist, Umbra Fisk, is here to help.
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The coolest church you’ve ever seen is inside an 800-year-old tree
This oak tree in Allouville-Bellefosse, France, up near the country’s north coast, has been alive for at least 800 years. In the late 1600s, a bolt of lightening hollowed out the center, but the tree survived and kept putting out leaves and acorns. And when they see something like that, 17th-century Frenchmen think about the […]
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Oh rot: It’s harvest time on the worm farm
Eight months ago, our fearless green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, brought a bucket of worms into her home. They’ve made some beautiful compost for her, but how to extract it?
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Speak up! Young people need to be heard at the Earth Summit
This is an opportunity, one youth leader says, for those energized by the street and internet democracy that has proliferated in recent years to bring their voices to the table with world leaders.
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SUV with built-in stationary bike: It’s like biking to work, except stupid as hell
Introducing the most bougie car possible: the Becker Cadillac Escalade ESV.
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Teen makes prom dress out of 5,000 soda can tabs
This Colorado high school junior spent five months making the dress.
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President Bartlet wants you to go for a walk
If you worked in President Bartlet’s White House, you would not have to worry about dying an early death from sitting all day, because the West Wing staffers are always walking! And talking! And walk-and-talking! About things like how no one realizes that the president actually can’t fix gas prices. And after you watch this […]
