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Urbivore’s Dilemma, Week 9: The well-traveled vegetable
A takeout eater turned farm-fresh foodivore takes her vegetables on vacation and tries to figure out where to compost their remnants. Should she get a worm bin? Weigh in!
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Stephanie Mills on choosing whether or not to have children [VIDEO]
Activist Stephanie Mills answers this question: "What advice do you give people who feel conflict about having children and living sustainably?"
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Solar vibrator helps women get off while getting off the grid
Let's give a squeal of welcome to the newest member of the solar community: the Micro-Kitty solar-powered vibrator. Yes, yes, YES, you should take a peak at this climax in sustainable sex toy innovations.
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Why did Whole Foods tart up my organic peanut butter?
In which I buy a jar of organic peanut butter from Whole Foods, find that it has added fat and sugar -- just like Jif! -- and am filled with righteous indignation.
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Green the Block and President Obama Are One Year Older: But Do We Celebrate?
by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, (CEO, Green For All) and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., (President, Hip Hop Caucus) Cross-posted from Huffington Post A year ago today, Green The Block was born in a ceremony held in the West Wing of the White House while President Barack Obama celebrated his own 48th birthday. It was a tremendous honor […]
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Federal agency teaches schoolkids the fun of drilling the Gulf
I'm all for promoting interactive learning for children. But this classroom activity touting the fun of oil drilling -- from the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service -- is shorely off-target. Starting with this, er, suggestive image that goes with it.
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For Hollywood, carlessness is ‘symbolic castration’
Why does the film industry have such contempt for the carless? Good question.
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Paris hopes to expand car-sharing, limit car-burning
Paris already has one of the largest bike-sharing programs in the world; now it wants to add a car-sharing program, with all electric cars.
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Ask Umbra on avoiding 'pink slime' in ground beef and flushing kitty litter
Ask Umbra tackles where to buy slime-free hamburger meat. She also revisits the flushability issue from last week's kitty litter column.
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The arrival of the stork isn't always a happy occasion [VIDEO]
An irreverent little video about population pressures -- "The Stork" by Nina Paley. Watch it here.
