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  • How to green your underwear drawer

    Go on, green your drawers. Photo: jamelah e. Change your undies, change the world! OK, maybe that’s stretching things a bit — which can’t be good for those elastic waistbands. But think about all the times in recent history that underwear has shaped the culture: the 1960s bra-trashing by women’s libbers, the infamous 1994 “boxers […]

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  • Paper mags go green(ish) for one month

    The third annual “Green Issue” of Vanity Fair has arrived: Vanity, all is VanityAlthough Madonna graces the cover, the story inside makes no mention of greenness … including her “eco-song” and headlining gig last summer at Live Earth. Altogether an interesting choice for the “green issue,” though I applaud the absence of sweater belts. The […]

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  • Chinese miners and our appetite for cheap crap

    As the United States has outsourced its industrial base to China over the last two decades, millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared. But the trend has also allowed us to shed a lot of unpleasantness: industrial waste, air pollution, etc. The move also eased the burden on our electrical grid. The energy needed to produce […]

    Tom Philpott Culture

  • EPA announces new lead standards for renovation of older buildings

    Contractors will have to train workers to follow “lead-safe work practice standards” when renovating or repairing older dwellings that house children or pregnant women, according to new standards introduced Monday by the U.S. EPA. The new requirements are an attempt to keep lead out of the bloodstreams of babes, as structures built before 1978 are […]

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  • File under Epitaphs for Humanity

    Wow: Here’s the back:

    David Roberts Culture

  • Umbra on organic vs. natural foods

    Dear Umbra, I’m trying to convince my sister that there is a difference between all-natural and organic products, and she doesn’t think there is. I’m pretty sure there is a difference, I just don’t know what it is. I look at the ingredients of some of the food she buys that she says are “natural” […]

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  • Plush toys recalled due to fire hazard

    Polar bears soon to be extinct due to risk of overheating!

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  • Washington Nationals will play in first U.S. green-built stadium

    The Washington Nationals will play their baseball season opener Sunday in the first green-built professional stadium in the U.S. The LEED Silver certified ballpark was built on a restored brownfield, and many building materials were produced locally. The stadium boasts efficient lighting and plumbing, drought-resistant plants, a concession area with a green roof, filters to […]

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  • From Comeback to Cocktails

    How I met your popster This week, Britney stripped for charity after a TV appearance, Jon Bon Jovi offset his world tour, and Amy Wino agreed to “say no, no, no” at a new human-powered club. It’s official: Green is the new comeback. Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com Bad to the bone saw We’re all about the […]

    Sarah K. Burkhalter & Sarah van Schagen Culture

  • Shara chats about animals, organics, and recycling

    Check out this video of indie artist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond at South by Southwest as she chats about her love for animals, organic foods, and recycling: My Brightest Diamond at SXSWUploaded by NRDC

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