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School cook in Sweden told to make her food less delicious
When you were growing up and you ate your school lunch of disgusting gristle-filled burgers and rubbery pizza and creamed chipped beef, did you ever think that one day there […]
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These grassroots heroes are fighting for food democracy
The recipients of this year's Food Sovereignty Prize represent the diversity of a powerful global movement promoting healthy food for all.
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Texas city moves 100-year-old tree rather than cut it down
When road construction threatened this 100-year-old, 260-ton oak, League City, Texas stepped up and moved it.
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Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain
Is nothing sacred to coal companies in Appalachia? In a jaw-dropping display of contempt and disregard for the communities and landscapes where they mine coal, three coal companies back in […]
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Two Australians will be given a home and bathrobes and forced to get everything else secondhand
Two random people are being told to buy nothing new for a week. We think they'll live, but they might end up in ugly T-shirts and mom jeans.
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Brain-eating parasite has killed at least 10 in Pakistan
Remember when we warned you about the parasite Naegleria fowleri, which causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (in short, eats your brain)? And you were probably all “oh, brain-eating microorganisms, picture from […]
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These cool public benches are made out of cars and propane tanks
Artist Colin Selig makes benches for municipal buildings and parks — and, of course, for rich people’s private courtyards, because a guy’s gotta eat — out of recycled propane tanks […]
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Will Obama’s Poll Decline Finally Break the Silence on Climate?
Four years ago, when Barack Obama was running against John McCain for the Presidency and when the climate crisis was not as severe as it has become, both Obama and […]
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Brewmaster makes beer out of yeast harvested from his beard
A brewmaster in Oregon discovers that the yeast in his beard is no different from other yeast. Then he decides to use it to make beer. Then he gives it a gross name? Sadly, if someone handed us a cold one, we would drink it.
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Back from the dead: MacArthur genius wants to keep runoff out of the Gulf
Marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais has spent 30 years studying the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" -- a human-made disaster caused in large part by industrial agriculture. Here's what she wants you to know.
