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Is it bad to leave chargers plugged in?
A reader seeks clarification on energy-sucking phone and laptop chargers. Umbra divulges the juicy truth.
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River rising: Water helps revive a washed-up industrial town
Yonkers, N.Y., needed a facelift, and it found one, beneath the city streets, in a river that hadn’t been seen in living memory.
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Does Santorum think the pope is a ‘radical environmentalist’?
Rick Santorum presents himself as a devout Catholic, but on the issue of climate change, he strays far from the pope's teachings.
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Right-wingers and greens agree: The Lorax movie sucks balls
Between commie brainwashing and Mazda pandering, Fox News and greens agree: The Lorax movie sucks.
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Giant snow art turns the ground into a canvas
Sometimes it’s nice to stop worrying about the fate of the planet and just appreciate it for its beauty — and it doesn’t hurt if its beauty is slightly enhanced by being part of a massive environmental art project. Sonja Hinrichsen’s snow drawing looks like it could be a Marimekko fabric design, but it’s actually […]
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Scientists resurrect 30,000-year-old plants — and they can still bear fruit
Man, I can barely raise a plant from a seedling without killing it, and scientists have managed to grow viable plants out of seeds from 29,000 B.C.? So unfair.
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Attention drunkards: Please dispose of your Mardi Gras beads in a responsible manner
DRUNK PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS! We know you need that plastic flotsam in order to see some boobs, because of I guess longstanding tradition dating back to before you could see boobs on the internet without even trying. But it’s basically an ecological nightmare, so if you can’t find some ladies who are willing to take […]
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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.”
