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The Buy Nothing Project has launched more than 300 local Facebook groups that make it easy for people to share things with their neighbors.
Even if you failed SCUBA certification, you can visit the world's coral reefs -- minus all the water and animals that might slime or sting or bite you.
A sustainable meat company wants beef to be a luxury food. But will America buy it?
The so-called "Hail Mary" to save Sen. Mary Landrieu's political hide is a pointless Kabuki dance.
Giant utility company Exelon has a failing business model and a plan to prop it up. Both ratepayers and clean energy will get screwed in the process.
A Canadian architect thinks we should build skyscrapers out of wood to save the earth and climate a whole lotta hurt.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Radical Mycology cofounder Peter McCoy thinks mushrooms hold the secret to human and environmental health. He may be on to something.
… and five climate hawks who lost.