
Earth Hour is today. If you want to participate, just turn off your lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time. Environmental benefits aside, it'll just be a fun change of pace. And if it's not for you, there's always Human Achievement Hour.

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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
today's top stories from our friends at grist
UPDATE 11:10 Copenhagen time: Obama reached a pretty worthless (my take) "political agreement" with China, India, South Africa, and Brazil. Pretty...
That heartening piece of news I posted earlier about the Chamber of Commerce dramatically reversing its stance on climate legislation seemed a...
The Biosphere 2, a closed environment built in the late 1980s in Arizona to study how humans and ecosystems worked together, was beset by all...
Hey, good news. That compostable SunChips bag we mentioned last May is out on shelves now. It's made from corn and will compost within 14 weeks in...
A new inventory of the Portland metropolitan area shows that the bulk of the region's greenhouse gases come from the production of stuff, not...
How will Shai Agassi's heralded battery exchange system for electric cars stack up against the next generation of plug-in hybrids? Not long...
The Guardian (via Kottke) has assembled a slide show of some of the animals and plants that have been lost to the world over the last 10 years....
Sigh. Apparently there's still some confusion about whether the planet is getting warmer or cooler. Now only 57 percent of Americans believe there...
On Monday, Bill McKibben, the writer, environmentalist, and founder of 350.org (and, let's not forget, GOOD 100 honoree) took to the pages of...
Ten years of climate change, local food, and tipping points. This decade will be remembered, first and foremost, as the time we finally came...
The ecologists say yes. From the BBC: As CO2 levels increase and the world warms, land use, precipitation and the availability of water will also...
We're big fans of metal water bottles. They help reduce plastic waste, encourage people to use free public water sources, and, of course, keep us...
Wired Science has an amazing set of photos of glaciers taken from space. We generally think of glaciers as being, well, glacial, but in these...
Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It's a single-use toilet...
Given that only 6 percent of the plastic crap we throw away gets recycled, it's good news that Mitsubishi and Osaka University have invented a...
Peter Hadfield, a former New Scientist reporter, has a fantastic YouTube channel on climate change that provides a witty, scientifically informed...
Astronauts-in-training are sure to be disappointed by the White House's budget plans for NASA, but the rest of us terra-bound Earthlings should be...
Two big paper companies are pushing to bring fast-growing genetically-modified Australian Eucalyptus trees to the southeastern United States. The...
Who knows? But people think it helps their health, and they're taking a lot of it. But, turns out it can be really bad for the environment,...
We've told you about the Seed Vault that is being constructed in the Arctic Circle. Now the plans of the extremely futuristic building are...