Steal these flirting tips from animals
Feb 13, 2014, 2:54 pm By hrichmond
Animals and people are basically the same. We both fling our poop, pick bugs out of each other’s…How we can make our cities greener and more equal at the same time
Feb 13, 2014, 1:20 pm By benadler
Ever since the rise of Occupy Wall Street, the issue of inequality has been getting some long…Ask Umbra: What should I get my sweetie for Valentine’s Day?
Feb 13, 2014, 12:56 pm By ghanscom
Q. Valentine’s Day seems to have become a sustainability-conscious guy’s minefield. Flowers?…Your Tetley tea won’t taste so good after you read this
Feb 13, 2014, 12:39 pm By John Upton
Akarsh Simha India’s reputation for producing delicious teas stems mostly from vast plantations in…Another day, another big coal-industry spill ruins a river
Feb 13, 2014, 12:10 pm By John Upton
The coal power industry has dumped a lot of toxic crap into yet another river. This latest incident…This start-up wants to track the movement of all NYC’s pedestrians
Feb 13, 2014, 11:51 am By slaskow
Real-time pedestrian data, FastCoExist notes, is quite valuable to all sorts of people: “city…U.S. wants poor and rich countries alike to cut emissions under next climate treaty
Feb 13, 2014, 11:46 am By John Upton
If the U.S. gets its way, developing countries will need to roll up their sleeves and do more to…Earth is taking its revenge on cars by eating expensive Corvettes
Feb 13, 2014, 10:59 am By slaskow
The National Corvette Museum, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is “hallowed ground,” writes Thom…Get your Valentine’s Day kink on with these sex toys made of upcycled bike tires
Feb 13, 2014, 9:52 am By hrichmond
Fifty Shades of Green, anyone? Feminist environmentalists Ashley and Zoe can help you take your love…The secret ingredient to slow food: slow cash
Feb 13, 2014, 4:51 am By nathanael47
When I spoke with Tim Crosby, director of Slow Money Northwest, he was working on a deal at the Finn…Dems and GOP have competing visions for making oil trains safer in Washington state
10:59pm By John Upton
Public HeraldThe polluted aftermath of an oil-train derailment in Alabama last year. A…Here is what you would see if you were being eaten by a pig
4:47pm By slaskow
We may never know what twist of fate caused this GoPro video camera to fall out of a plane, down…This boat hull was left rusting in a bay until it turned into a forest
4:14pm By slaskow
The SS Ayrfield was built in 1911. It transported supplies to American troops in World War II, and…BP found another shady way to cheat public, get richer
2:06pm By John Upton
It’s hard to imagine a company as filthy rich as BP running a scam that would cheat a state out of…Ted Cruz is right: Everyone is too fixated on Keystone XL
12:56pm By benadler
For Republicans, the Obama administration’s slow decision making on the proposed Keystone XL oil…These workshops will teach you to salvage and build an upcycled tiny house
12:43pm By hrichmond
What’s better than a tiny house? (After frozen custard, sex, and memory foam.) Bingo: a tiny house…Monster wind farm planned in South Dakota
12:41pm By John Upton
Well blow us over, Mount Rushmore State! Scores of landowners in South Dakota are banding together…Utility trying to bury solar in Arizona
Oct 22, 2013, 5:33 pm By John Upton
Shutterstock A battle between the solar-panel industry and a major utility in Arizona is heating up.…Three reasons why Germany is kicking our arsch on solar
Oct 22, 2013, 4:41 pm By John Farrell
ShutterstockFranconia, Bavaria. Germany is racing past 20 percent renewable energy on its…Helsinki’s personalized bus service is like Uber for public transit
Oct 22, 2013, 4:36 pm By jesszimmerman
Helsinki Transit Authority Here’s an innovation in bus usage that’s so smart we’re not sure it…
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