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Ask Umbra on the impacts of and alternatives to milk
If you think milk comes from a benevolent dairy fairy, you’re in for a surprise. Umbra answers a question about dairy cows and milk options that are friendlier to animals, the environment, and your health.
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Walk Score team unveils Transit Score and two more apps
First there was Walk Score, the web tool that calculates how walkable a neighborhood is and ranks it on a 100-point scale. Today the same developers release Transit Score, an app that ranks how well-served a location is by buses and rail lines.
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Endless Summer?
Is it the natural abundance of vitamin D, or the energy boost of eating fresh foods, or those things we call vacations that remind us how life should be? Everyone feels the happiness, the ease, of summer. This year I noticed something a bit new, though. I’ve spent the last several years developing a critique […]
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Population contrarian Fred Pearce on 'The Daily Show' [VIDEO]
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce has pissed off many by arguing that we don?t need to worry about population. Watch him chat with Jon Stewart.
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Composting 101 for citydwellers
If you're going to all the trouble to eat locally grown, organic vegetables, it's a shame to truck their remains away to landfill prison when you could be feeding them back to the earth. So why aren't you composting yet?
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Marriage requirement #1: Regrow the rainforest
Some couples get happily engaged in environmental issues by ditching wasteful wedding favors, recycling 400,000 cans to pay for their nuptials, or growing all the food for their reception. But that's all optional. Indonesia is requiring that newlyweds go out on a limb.
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The smart bike that pedals and twitters across America
Humans think they've got the market cornered on electronic communication, but a twittle bird told us that's no longer the case. See what we mean.
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An anti-corn elitist’s pro-corn pasta
This very week, the sweet-corn patch on Maverick Farms came ripe. Harvesting and processing it took half a dozen people nearly all day. Here's what I fed them for lunch.
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Swarms of starving models stranded on oil-covered beaches
The kind of oil spill most fashion models are familiar with probably involves tanning oil. This fashion spread from Vogue Italia, however, is a little less "D&B" and a little more "BP." Take a look.
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How much do you spend on transport? New web app aims to show you
The cost of a home is easy to keep in mind. The cost of getting to and from it is not. A new web tool aims to shed light on transportation costs and nudge Americans away from sprawl.
