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Office clothes are an impediment to green transportation

It's time to rethink how we dress for work.




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The bike and micromobility movement needs its Futurama moment

"Make no small plans." It's time to stop building bits and start building big.




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Particulate Matter levels in London Underground are 18 times as high as the air outside

And the air outside in urban London is pretty awful.




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8 Best North American Beaches For Exploring Tide Pools

Discover the miniature, magical world of tide pools -- and beat the heat -- by heading to North America's coastlines.




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Summertime means heading to the shore, in both town and country

Katherine lives in rural Ontario. Margaret lives in New York City. The way they enjoy their summers is bound to be drastically different.




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Do you get a summer vacation? You should.

Americans work way too long and too hard.




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Does Living Near Fast Food Restaurants Mean You’re More Likely to Be Fat?

Fast food is the enemy of green food, so why does an overweight America still eat so much fast food?




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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest

World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption.




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Pink Slime Makers Sue ABC News For Defamation

The suit, brought in South Dakota court, seeks over a billion dollars in damages against ABC News -- even though ABC never originated the term and was just reporting what everyone else was calling it.




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How do they find horse meat in hamburger?

A relatively new test detected horse meat in European hamburger. We wonder: how do they test this? Could it happen in America? What happens to all the recalled food?




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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef

The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production.




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Pink slime's school lunch comeback hits 7 states

Known as "lean finely textured beef," the highly processed meat has been dropped from by many fast food chains, but are still one the menu at public schools.




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5 foods you shouldn't eat if you care about the environment

You've heard them all before, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded of why these foods are destructive to our planet.




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Does anyone really know which diet is best for the environment?

The meat vs. veggies debate is a lot more complex than it seems at first glance.




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More of us need to become "weekday vegetarians"

A new study shows that if we want to stop climate change, meat and dairy are off the table -- at least in the quantities we currently consume.




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Scientists identify the most environmentally harmful animal product in the American diet

A new paper compares eggs, dairy, poultry, beef and pork to determine which has the biggest environmental impact.




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McDonald's promises transparency about its food, if only customers will come back

The company has launched a few efforts to reclaim marketshare, from promoting regional specialties to answering questions about food production. Too bad the promotional videos aren't convincing and fail to address the whole issue.




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Meat and dairy are heating up the planet, but nobody seems to care

Despite the fact that livestock production contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector, there is an appalling unwillingness to change eating habits in order to make a difference.




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Meatonomics explores the bizarre economic forces that drive meat & dairy production

According to the research of author David Simon, the externalized cost of our animal food system totals about $414 billion per year, which is carried by all of us.




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Imagine meatless Monday at the school cafeteria

Is the dream of sustainable agriculture a nightmare for the beef industry?




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American dietary guidelines dump environmental concerns

Recommendations to eat less meat for environmental reasons won’t be included in the final 2015 dietary guidelines.




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Try the 'Better Burger Challenge' this summer

Adding vegetables or legumes to ground beef makes a burger that's tastier, healthier, and less environmentally damaging.




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Calling veggie substitutes "meat" is now illegal in Missouri

Guess which industry pushed that one through?




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Almost half of American drivers don’t bother using their turn signals

And then they yell at cyclists for not following the rules.




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When it comes to cycling, Delft wasn't always Delft

Changing attitudes about cities and getting people out of cars takes a lot of work.




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Is this the busiest bike lane in North America?

Ten years after Vancouver's Burrard Street Bridge bike lanes opened, it is no longer controversial.




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Electric cars alone won't save us, says new UK parliamentary report; get a bike instead

It calls for more support of bikes, walking and transit, banning ICE-powered cars sooner.




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Why don't Americans wear helmets in the shower?

Way more people get traumatic injuries in the shower than they do on bikes, but almost nobody takes the most basic safety precautions.




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The real problem with the NTSB's mandatory bike helmet recommendation

We covered this subject before but I got it wrong. Peter Flax of Bicycling Magazine got it right.




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Fill your home with random stuff from Marie Kondo's new store

Forget decluttering. KonMari is now all about re-cluttering.




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The best DIY baking soda cleaner for tough kitchen messes

For everything from stained sinks and burnt pots to baked-on grime, this simple 3-ingredient formula is eco-friendly, zero-waste, and actually works.




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7 decluttering projects for when you're stuck at home

Now's the time to tackle jobs you've been thinking about for months.




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Laundry in a time of COVID-19

Amid all the confusion, here's some solid advice on how to keep your clothes clean and free from contamination.




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Clutterfree app offers a customized plan for decluttering your home

Created by minimalism expert Joshua Becker, it relies on the user's description of their own home, not a general house.




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Wretched Excess Comes To The Bedroom

Beds designed to be earthquake proof and that put you inside an aquarium




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10 More Ways To Hide The Bed (Some of Which You Can Actually Afford)

Every tiny apartment does not have to have an expensive Murphy bed.




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Transformer desk turns into bedroom

Athanasia Leivaditou designs the perfect desk for all-nighters, described as 1.6 Square Meter of Life




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Build your own transformer bed that turns into a desk

Graham Phakos did, with an interesting design that does everything the expensive Italian jobs do.




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Scientists decode bed bug genome as pesticide resistance results in a resurgence

Secrets of bed bug success can be read in their genes -- can the knowledge help you fight bed bug infestations?




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Sleek multifunctional 'bedroom box' maximizes this small apartment

A cramped, rundown apartment gets a makeover with this mysterious-looking black box.




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Parisian apartment renovation puts the beds in a bookcase

To gain more space, this apartment's redesign puts everything in the wall.




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Urban tiny house's versatile lounge comes with an elevator bed (Video)

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.




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Offshore wind turbine concept includes a loft apartment at the top

These architects propose building a living space into the nacelle of giant offshore wind turbines. What could go wrong?




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Beautiful wind turbine trees generate clean energy in urban environments

The turbines leave no room for the eye-sore excuse.




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How can people demand a "naturally green" environment and hate wind turbines?

There is either a giant contradiction here in Ontario's Prince Edward County or I am missing something.




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How Lush is supporting cocoa butter farmers in the Congo

It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Lush gets luxurious fair-trade cocoa butter, while farmers earn income in a low-risk way, not threatened by violence.




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Pilot flying rescued baby chimp to safety is a heart-melting thing

The moral of the story is: Some people are awful, some people are heroes, and baby chimps are irresistable.




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Meet Kingo: Wild silverback gorilla, doting father of 20

He’s a fierce defender of his family and helped nurse two of his offspring back from leopard attacks. He likes to nap with his feet in the air, and he hums while he eats.




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Women around the world are having fewer babies

A new study found global fertility rates are on the decline in hundreds of countries




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Plot twist! Elephants come up with a foolproof way to survive ivory poachers

Never ever underestimate the intelligence of Mother Nature.