Here’s how the greenest presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, could get even greener
Thu 6:35pm By Ben Adler
The Democratic presidential primary race got its second major candidate last week, and its first…Here’s the soundtrack to your city
Thu 6:02pm By Eve Andrews
I’ve always tried to learn a city to a soundtrack. There are songs that I will constantly…The future of bread comes from a lab — here’s why that’s good
Thu 5:57pm By Darby Minow SmithThe Bread Lab has been receiving a lot of buzz recently. It’s graced the pages of the New York…Shell’s oil rig is already falling apart — and it hasn’t even left for the Arctic
Thu 5:56pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
In today’s HOLY SH*T WTF!? news: The Noble Discoverer, Royal Dutch Shell’s oil drilling rig,…Will millennials shop at the new Whole Foods bargain store?
Thu 4:58pm By Liz Core
Attention fellow young people! Whole Foods (known to your grumpy, vegetarian parents as “Whole…Blame McDonald’s for James Franco
Thu 4:42pm By Katie Herzog
Today in celebrity news, James Franco published an editorial in the Washington Post in defense of…Would you like some criticism on your GMO-free Chipotle burrito?
Thu 4:00pm By Nathanael Johnson
It’s been fascinating to watch the media reaction to Chipotle’s announcement that it was…Yes, plants need vibrators, too
Thu 3:37pm By Madeleine Thomas
Humor me, and imagine this: You’re a young, lithe, blossoming tomato plant. Your leaves are wide,…These satellites are keeping an eye on California’s underground water
Thu 3:25pm By Amelia UrryOne more thing space is really good for, besides wow factor: Giving us a place to keep an eye…What are the most eco-friendly nuts?
Thu 5:11am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I keep a bag of nuts and dried fruit in my desk at work. Are there any nuts or seeds that I can…Why it matters that left-wingers just won in oil-rich Alberta
Thu 12:14am By Ben Adler
American environmentalists are frustrated that our adorable neighbor to the north is surprisingly…Why the Koch brothers’ war against clean energy is still failing
May 6, 2015, 9:33 pm By Bentham Paulos
For the past four years, a set of right-wing advocacy groups, largely funded by the Koch brothers…This infographic shows why good bread costs more dough
May 6, 2015, 6:28 pm By Eve Andrews
The transition from lots of mid-size farms toward fewer, behemoth operations that we’ve discussed…What swims in rivers, rhymes with drought, and is dying in California?
May 6, 2015, 6:14 pm By Madeleine Thomas
California’s ongoing megadrought has taken a lot of prisoners: organic dairy, almonds, and hell…Instead of feeling bad about being single and childless, this woman started an awesome farm
May 6, 2015, 5:43 pm By Liz CoreWhen Danelle Myer got divorced at age 30, she expected she’d just keep the same job, remarry, and…This tool could help Montreal cyclists route around bad air
May 6, 2015, 5:19 pm By Heather Smith
Yesterday, I wrote about a new project from the Sierra Club that, basically, lets you get texts from…Elevated paths give San Francisco cyclists the high ground
May 6, 2015, 3:50 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Pretty soon, bikers in San Francisco won’t just have the moral high ground over cars: They’ll…Oakland might not have much water, but it’s littered with kittens
May 6, 2015, 3:41 pm By Ana Sofia Knauf
In addition to mandatory water rationing, the California drought could be behind another peculiar…California moving to stage 2 of drought grief: Anger
May 6, 2015, 3:11 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Californians are supposed to cut their water use by 25 percent. So far those of us in the Golden…We just hit 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, for a whole month
May 6, 2015, 2:37 pm By Amelia Urry
I have good news, and I have bad news. First, the bad news: The atmosphere just passed…
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