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Look, Dad! No hands! The travails of teaching kids to bike in the city
What’s a bike-loving helicopter parent to do with kids in the urban jungle? Here are six things that will help keep your free-wheeling young’uns out of harm’s way.
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Austin gets a super swank zero-energy suburb
How do you build a (nearly) net-zero-energy suburb in 2008, at the nadir of the economic crash, when no bank in the country is convinced you’ll be able to sell your more energy-efficient but pricier homes?
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Compost gets you high
“I’m holding a bowl of dirt up to my nose, in hopes of getting high on the fumes of my backyard compost pile.” That’s Pagan Kennedy’s lede for an Atlantic story on the mind-bending properties of M. vaccae, a compost-dwelling bacteria. We couldn’t really improve on it. But we can condense the dirty details of […]
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Design o’ the times: Empowering minorities to shape urban landscapes
A spate of new design-based public schools aims to increase the number of minorities practicing design and architecture.
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This house is so tiny it fits in your pocket
Two hundred square feet? SO last year. The newest tiny house folds up to fit in your pocket.
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The Muppets take on Fox News
Fox News thinks the Muppets have a bias against oil companies. The Muppets point out they spent the movie DRIVING TO FRANCE IN A CAR (uh, spoiler alert). Also, Miss Piggy does not much care for Murdoch and his enterprises:
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Ask Umbra: Is it OK to pour beer down the drain?
A reader wonders about how to dispose of unwanted beer. Umbra considers everything and the kitchen sink.
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Spoil sport: How I learned to stop worrying and love the dumpster
Armed with suggestions from readers, Grist’s green-living pioneer went back to the trash bins in search of sustenance. This time, she emerged with a spread fit for a king.
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New toilet paper is recycled and brown, and that’s not QUITE as gross as it sounds
So if you were going to make a recycled toilet paper, would you make a huge deal about it being brown? Is that really the color that will evoke the most pleasant images when paired with the phrase “recycled toilet paper”? Is anyone even driving this marketing campaign?
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Earth Liberation Front documentary gets Oscar nomination
The list of Oscar nominees was released this morning, and among the five films up for best documentary feature is If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. The doc follows the story of so-called “eco-terrorists” who torched timber operations, meat packing plants, and other environmental horror shows in the 1990s. The […]
