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Good Guide to Reducing Your Water Use, Part 2: Outdoors
2A: Lose the Lawn, Water Hogs Potential water savings: up to 150 gallons per day, per household. There are much better ways to decorate or...
Read & DiscussGood Guide to Reducing Your Water Use, Part 1: Bathroom
1A: A (Clean) Toilet Hack Potential water savings: Up to 18 gallons per day, per person. How to easily reduce the water wasted by every...
Read & DiscussThe Ballsy New Tap Water Campaign: Lies
Well, this is something: Tappening, the tap-water campaigners, has taken its gloves off and is fighting the bottled-water business the dirty way....
Read & DiscussCanada's Actually Great Rail Company Goes On Strike
Fun fact about Canadians: They go on strike all the time, especially in Quebec. Whether it's cops working-to-rule (which means they do their jobs...
Read & DiscussCitizen Messages to Copenhagen
If you're one of the lucky few going to Cop15, the most important climate-change summit since Kyoto and ideally the one that will save the world,...
Read & DiscussWill Giving out Expensive Meds Be the Key to HIV Eradication?
This is one of those "but it just might work" ideas: Give every single HIV-infected person drugs, and drastically reduce the number of people who...
Read & DiscussIdea: Fund Health Care by Limiting Charitable-Donation Deductions
As this health care business heats up, so does talk about how to pay for it. Interesting piece on Andrew Sullivan's blog this morning about one...
Read & DiscussEco-Towns: A PR Opportunity, Smart Development Idea, Or Both?
The new million dollar question: When it comes to revitalizing cities, or finding places to put people, is it better to build or rebuild? The U.K....
Read & DiscussGreenpeace Gives Trader Joe's the PETA Treatment
Eeks. According to Greenpeace, Trader Joe's sells 15 of the 22 "red list" seafoods-fish that are unsustainably harvested or seriously overfished....
Read & DiscussSiobhan O'Connor thinks A Better Kind of Offset is good.
3 years agoSiobhan O'Connor thinks The Water's Edge is good.
3 years agoHow to Get Rid of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Guess how many gays have been kicked out of the armed forces since 1994, the year after Congress passed "Don't ask, Don't tell"? Just have a...
Read & DiscussDo Plants Want to Catch Fire?
Hey, science nerds. Here's a fascinating piece by Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist who is exceptionally good at making science interesting...
Read & DiscussMore Support For Bullet Trains (But Still No Trains)
It's funny how many studies have been done to prove that high-speed rail is a great idea. These reports tend to show that people would make ample...
Read & DiscussCan Eliminating Roads Eliminate Traffic?
This is one of those brain benders that can make total sense (no road equals no cars equals no traffic) and none at all (no road equals cars...
Read & DiscussCanada Sucks When It Comes to Climate Change
If you were doing worse on climate action than Russia and the United States after eight years of Bush's environmental policies, you'd know you...
Read & DiscussExxonMobile's Still Funding "Research" That Says Climate Change Is a Sham
It's creepy how certain industries still can't get with the program. I understand how much is at stake for them financially, that traditional...
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