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Even city chickens want rooftop gardens on their coops
You can keep your mother cluckers cooped up -- while you raise the roof with raised garden beds -- with this chicken coop that doubles as a garden.
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Ask Umbra's Book Club announces Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' is next book
Ask Umbra decides to take on fiction and the Oprah Book Club in this month's Ask Umbra Book Club selection. Read about the book and find out when the conversation begins here!
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Ask Umbra on how to repair a broken electric toothbrush and other gadgets
Ask Umbra brushes off her handy tools for fixing gadgets -- like a reader's broken Sonicare toothbrush.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Weeks 20-22: Cooking strike
I’ve spent very little quality time with the fruits and vegetables from the CSA of late except in their most simple form -- raw. But should I really be trying to eat turnip greens and sweet potatoes uncooked?
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'Sister Wives' is latest reality show to glorify mega-families
TLC made fauxlebrities out of Jon and Kate Gosselin and the Duggar family with its 19 kids. How do you get bigger and weirder than that? Polygamists!
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Watch Sylvia Earle, Fabien Cousteau, Van Jones, others explore plastic pollution and the ocean
Activists, innovators, explorers, and artists are gathering in Los Angeles on November 6 for TEDx:GreatPacificGarbagePatch. It's featuring a day jam-packed with videos and live speeches from a gyre's-worth of famous ocean-lovers and plastic-pollution-haters. Watch the livestream here all day Saturday!
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Turning energy savings in London into solar for Africa
What if turning off the lights in your home or office could help people in Africa turn theirs on?
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The greenest party schools
Which colleges make the green grade and know how to party?
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Oscar-nominated documentary 'Waste Land' explores the world's largest garbage dump
Fascinating trash-art documentary Waste Land netted an Oscar nomination today for Best Documentary (Feature). Read our interview with the director!
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Fixing climate change with a video game
If you're game to save (or set aflame) the planet from the threat of climate change, you should give the eerily realistic computer game, Fate of the World, a spin.
