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Your healthy alternative food may just be the same crap in different packaging [SLIDESHOW]
Looking to lower your impact? Here’s your cheat sheet. GoodGuide offers greenness and social responsibility ratings, via web or app, for tens of thousands of products, including food, clothing, toys, and cleaning supplies. Obviously, it’s massively useful to be able to look up a brand on your phone and see its health and environment score […]
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Eerie photos of power plants show dark, coal-dependent future [SLIDESHOW]
Photographer Michael Kenna has captured a series of photos of icons of industrial society: power stations.
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Guerrilla art takes bike activism to the streets [SLIDESHOW]
In homage to those positive and creative forces pushing non-gas pedals across the nation, we invite you to strap on a helmet and steer yourself through these artistic examples of bike activism taken quite literally to the streets.
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War-era food posters: Wacky, well-meaning, and still relevant [SLIDESHOW]
Skinless frankfurters, laying-hen lessons, fat recycling -- the Obama administration could take a few tips from propagandizing presidencies past.
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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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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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Fair fare: Fun on a stick [SLIDESHOW]
It's county fair season, and as farmers compete for handsomest Holstein, vendors are vying to impale the most outrageous items on a stick and fry them.
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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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Urban farms around America are breaking through concrete and hitting sustainable paydirt [SLIDESHOW]
From mid-May through July, Grist readers followed along as the Breaking through Concrete guys hit the highway to visit a couple dozen urban farms across America. Here, they sum up their trip and share some of Michael Hanson's most indelible images from it for Grist's special series, Feeding the City.