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Posters from the past that can guide us in the future [SLIDESHOW]
All of the things that greens talk about were a necessity 70 years ago during World War II. Where today we see websites, then they did posters.
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American appetite for big homes is falling
Trulia released some compelling charts and graphs illustrating recent opinion research showing what might be the end of the McMansion. Even in Texas.
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Climate change found to be rapidly altering … the English language
The latest words added to the Oxford Dictionary of English show our panic-button solutions to global warming are changing the linguistic climate.
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My Intentional Life: Hot Flies in the Summertime
The roomies jackhammer up concrete to make way for a garden. See what happens when that freshly-tilled urban soil meets a rainy summer and feral cats.
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Ask Umbra’s advice on sustainable campuses and school fundraisers
Umbra gives guidance counseling on how to green your keg-stand campus and raise greener money for a student organization.
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Is the U.S. the most overpopulated country on the planet? [VIDEO]
Does it really make a difference to global sustainability if Americans have fewer kids? Damn straight, says William Ryerson of Population Institute.
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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 11: Cast iron and pot luck
This week's Urbivore's Dilemma: Hosting the biggest dinner party ever in my tiny Brooklyn apartment, and getting sentimental about heirloom cast iron skillets.
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Are these small dogs more eco-friendly than your lab? [SLIDESHOW]
Your dog's carbon pawprint is probably larger than you think. But instead of jettisoning the pet, how about downsizing to a smaller pooch?
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Turning yesterday's fugly into today's fashion — for $1
The world would be better off if we could all take a stitch in nine like Marisa Lynch, whose thrifting, diy-ing, and blogging is saving the world from the fugliest dresses -- and setting a fashionable example for greener living.
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Whiskey biofuels getting tanked
Scottish scientists have been thinking a lot about drinking and driving. And what they've discovered will knock you off your feet.
