It’s a popular bragging point these days: Which city really is the most environmentally sustainable?
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Inbred, Disease-Prone Bananas Put Breakfast in Peril
This study is bananas.
America’s First Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin
Ever feel a pang of guilt throwing away glass bottles, plastic containers, and loads of other completely reusable packaging materials? If that’s you, then the zero-waste grocery store in.gredients coming to Austin, Texas will …
Get Ready For a Historic Heat Wave, East Coasters
Quick, start your ACs!
Study: Early Women Explored While Men Stayed at Home
Two million years ago, it was female pre-humans that struck out to find a mate, according to a study of fossil teeth from Africa.
Brazil ‘s Amazon Deforestation Prompts ‘Crisis Cabinet’
Not even Brazil’s environmental minister can explain the cause of a sudden and unexpected surge in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. All Izabella Teixeira could say was that the 27% spike between August 2010 and this year …
Can Growing a Beard Help You Go Green?
This is one way to enjoy responsibly: Budweiser is encouraging men across America to grow a beard and save a million gallons of water.
Biodegradable Urn Lets You Go Green, Even Six Feet Under
If you choose to be cremated, your ashes might as well go towards a good cause.
Green Wars: Two ‘Living Buildings’ Battle for Sustainable Supremacy
Your office building doesn’t have solar panels lining the roof, composting in the basement, or mechanically controlled venetian blinds on the outside of the building to direct sun in or out depending on the time of day?
The Cube Project Squeezes Bachelor Pad Into Charmingly Tiny Box
The Cube Project, whose first prototype was unveiled last month during the Edinburgh Science Festival in Scotland, is a tiny, cubical house, measuring just 3 x 3 x 3 meters.
Hoax ‘Peabody Initiative’ Offers Free Inhalers For Asthmatic Kids, Courtesy of Coal Company
It was really just too good to be true.
Do Girl Scout Cookies Harm the Environment? Renegade Scouts Fight Against Palm Oil Ingredient
Girl Scout cookie lovers, beware.