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Smallest legal apartment in California is prefab, adorbs
Check out the smallest studio apartment you can build by law in California: It's 160 square feet, and it includes a bevy of space-saving measures.
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How many of us are vegetarian or vegan?
Check out poll numbers on how many Americans are abstaining from meat, and how often omnivores are eating it.
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Damien Hirst to build eco-homes, possibly full of formaldehyde
World’s richest artist Damien Hirst, best known for preserved sharks and diamond-encrusted skulls and having his assistants make all his artwork, apparently owns an obscene amount of land in Ilfracombe parish, Devon, England. And he wants to use it to build a development of 500 “eco-homes.”
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One weird old trick for population control: Aspirin
You may have heard that Rick Santorum financial backer Foster Friess proposed one weird old trick for birth control: an aspirin between the knees. (If you don’t get it, try holding an aspirin between your knees, and then imagine that you only knew one sex position and it was missionary.) We found some file photos of […]
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Let’s ban toilet paper
Did you know that because of Americans' demand for super-soft TP for our bungholes, 98 percent of the pulp used to make the stuff comes from virgin forests?
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World’s worst elected official makes the case for sprawl
"Well, let me state it unequivocally: I love sprawl," says L. Brooks Patterson, county executive of Oakland County, Mich.
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Fair Trade gasoline
You know where your coffee beans come from -- so why not your gasoline? Did your $3.50 a gallon go to prop up our tar-sands-addicted frenemies in Canada?
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You work 3.84 minutes per day to pay for your bicycle, 2 hours for your car
Americans work on average two hours out of every day to pay for their cars. A bicycle costs only 3.84 minutes.
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Insanely catchy song urges you to poop in a bucket
Pooping in a bucket might not save the world, but this is definitely going to be stuck in your head for a while.
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Green of hearts: Your last-minute guide to a sustainable Valentine’s Day
Need some last-minute Valentine’s Day inspiration? No worries: We help you celebrate your significant other without hurting your significant Mother (Earth).
