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'The Cow in Patrick O'Shanahan’s Kitchen' is a gentle introduction to food origins

After you read the last page of this new book for kids, you can start a discussion about food, farmers and eating.




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12 must-have home goods for the well-stuffed stocking

Have a stocking to stuff before December 25? Consider these useful and beautiful gifts — most eco-friendly and/or from small designers — for $25 and under.




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The super-useful Common Cook’s How-Many Guide to Kitchen Conversion is now a wall cling

You’ll refer to this guide that’s printed on biodegradable fabric with non-toxic ink almost every time you need to convert a recipe.




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The festive fix-it: Stocking stuffers for home improvement nuts

'Tis the season to mend, modify, repair, tidy-up and perform (not too strenuous) energy- and water-saving tweaks around the house.



  • Remodeling & Design

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5 'Buy One Give One' gifts to double your holiday giving

When you buy one of these gifts for someone on your list, a donation is made to someone in need.




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13 terrific tools to gift the DIYer in your life

13 terrific tools to gift the DIYer in your life




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Last-minute gifts you can find at the grocery store

Combine food shopping and gift shopping this year by taking advantage of a well-stocked grocery store.




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How to avoid a gift gaffe anywhere in the world

Here's what to give and what to avoid for the holidays or any time of year.



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It's time to revive the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving

In 1911, the Society for the Prevention Useless Giving (SPUG) began a movement against useless Christmas gifts. It's time for a comeback.




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10 stocking stuffers for home cooks (that will actually get used)

Looking for stocking stuffer ideas for your favorite home cooks? Here are some suggestions for super useful tools that they’ll love.




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A 'raft' of volcanic stone may be a lifesaver for the Great Barrier Reef

A floating sheet of pumice could bring an infusion of life to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.



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Hybrid trucks: Delivering the total package

The shipping industry embraces fuel efficiency with hybrid delivery fleets.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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UPS adds 200 hybrids to U.S. fleet

Next time you see one of UPS' iconic big brown delivery trucks, look closely because it may be one of the 200 new hybrids hitting the streets of American cities




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KBB announces top green cars for 2010

Despite the recall woes plaguing Toyota, Kelley Blue Book has named the Toyota Prius as the top green car for 2010.




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Toyota hybrid sales up 41.1%

Toyota Motor Sales released its April 2010 sales figures and Toyota and Lexus hybrid sales are up 41.1% over April 2009.




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4 questions to ask about the proposed eco-grades for cars

Your next car purchase may be based on a letter grade issued by Beltway bureaucrats.




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New MPG standards will lead to political debate

The latest tag team effort from the EPA and Department of Transportation is an ambitious one: the 60 mile per gallon car.




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Toyota is giving away 100 cars in 100 days

Toyota's new "100 Cars for Good" program will give away 100 cars to nonprofit organizations in 100 days.




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My trip to the monster truck show

You haven't lived until you've seen one of these babies clear 14 cars and leap 130 feet in the air. An hour of action uses up half Kuwait's daily oil output, bu




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AT&T reaches another clean fleet milestone

AT&T's growing clean fleet allowed the company to avoid purchasing one million gallons of petroleum-based fuel in 2010.




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Ford and Toyota to develop new hybrid system

New hybrid system will allow rear-wheel drive light trucks and SUVs to achieve greater fuel efficiency levels.




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Two amigos: Toyota and Ford

The two big automakers will work together on creating hybrid versions of gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks. If they don't, fuel costs will price Americans out of the




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Farmer battles animal factory and wins

Lynn Henning, a country farmer, wins the Goldman Prize for battling a massive factory cattle operation that was polluting once fertile farms in Michigan.



  • Research & Innovations

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Chinese company to buy Smithfield Foods; Business boon or disaster?

To meet China's insatiable demand for pork, Shuanghui International is turning to an American company to help 'bring home the bacon.'



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Ken Salazar to step down as Secretary of the Interior

His office confirms that he will leave his job this March to spend more time with his family.




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Coolio transformed into breakdancing polar bear

Student filmmakers win Environment Agency film competition by casting Coolio as a water-wasting polar bear.




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Environmentalists are bringing solutions right to your desktop via Google Earth

Environmental activists are bringing problems (and solutions) right to your desktop via Google Earth.




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Media Mayhem: 7 environmental stories that are free of doom and gloom

From an eco-city in China to a coffee producer in Uganda to 'towers of power' in Spain and California, some good news from the green frontier.



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Media Mayhem: A tongue-in-cheek civics lesson

Let's apply the great American traditions of propaganda and intimidation to the climate change debate.




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Media Mayhem: It's time to get scrappy, Mr. President

To fulfill his promise to become the 'Climate Change President,' Obama will have to channel his inner Harry Truman.




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Doctors often wrong about who will lose weight

In a new study, physicians predicted about 55 percent of patients would be "likely" or "very likely" to follow their recommendations for losing weight, eating h



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Al Gore's call to action

Video from Al Gore's speech yesterday at the Copenhagen climate talks.




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Copenhagen Day 11: Hillary thwacks ball into China's court

The U.S. secretary of state makes the ACES climate bill targets official and pledges to build a $100 billion fund.



  • Research & Innovations

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German reporter to Sen. Inhofe: 'You're ridiculous'

Climate change denier and Republican senator Jim Inhofe was given a cool reception by the foreign press corp when he hit Copenhagen last week.




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It's time to move past George W. Bush

If Democrats want to make this election about issues, they should make it a mandate on Rand Paul's ideas not George Bush's failures.




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TH!NK:Climate Change contest can send you to Cancun

The EJC is sending someone to Cancun for the next climate summit. Budding bloggers, this is your chance to get noticed.




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Revenge of the climate scientists, but is it too late?

Climate scientists are beginning to unite to against the misinformation campaigns of right-wingers, but it comes after they've been dealt several blows.




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Old climate arguments return to Washington

Idaho's Mike Simpson actually sounds reasonable when bringing up the debates of the past.




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The key to climate action? Getting the size just right

In the face of the global challenge of climate change, our responses too often involve doing Much Too Little or thinking Way Too Big. The real key is to start a



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It's crunch time for Kyoto

The fate of the 14-year-old climate treaty will likely be determined in Durban, South Africa, where the latest round of U.N. climate talks begin this week.



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Top photos: Tiptoeing through mistletoe and 1 really smart car

The best photos of the week as presented by the Mother Nature Network, including a landfill worker in Cambodia and a mistletoe farm.



  • Gadgets & Electronics

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U.S. climate negotiators confront growing opposition in Durban

The U.S. has become the pre-eminent blocker to this year's UN climate negotiations, but new scientific analysis and a growing civil society movement could force



  • Climate & Weather

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44 gigatons: The most important number in the world

A new U.N. report challenges the world with a daunting task — reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 44 GT by 2020 or hit the tipping point for catastrophic clima



  • Climate & Weather

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News & social media hub launched to 'dewonkify' Doha climate talks

TckTckTck has a news and social media hub to help people who don't speak 'acronymese' understand what is going on at the Doha COP 18 climate talks.



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Hang 'em out to dry

Green blogger challenges everyone to air dry their clothes and cut the carbon this October.




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Progress made on carbon capture and storage

Little by little the Obama administration is clearing the way for CCS.




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Lame duck session brings a small victory for environmentalists

For political purposes, a West Virginia senator is giving the EPA a little breathing room -- for now.




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Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror?

The Mongol invasion scrubbed nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research.



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Swedish family moves into new home, begins strict carbon diet

An experiment in low-impact living called One Tonne Life finds a Swedish family moving into a 'climate-smart' home to drastically reduce their carbon footprints




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NRDC: Cable boxes guzzle more energy than new refrigerators

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council details the staggering environmental cost of DVRing 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' every week.