- June 2, 2008 • 11:08 pm PDT
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
In the great climate change debate, Patrick Michaels emerged as the skeptic with clout, a levelheaded doubter with the scientific credentials to...
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...
This elegant specimen is a soala. It lives in Laos and Vietnam and was only discovered in 1992. Apparently it's "one of the world's rarest...
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...
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...
Peter Hadfield, a former New Scientist reporter, has a fantastic YouTube channel on climate change that provides a witty, scientifically informed...
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...
This nice infographic from the NYT shows gas prices around the nation and where they're taking the biggest toll. It looks like people in...
For World Water Day 2008, we look at the planet's water, how it's being used, and the increasing strains on this vital resource. An original...
From an interview with DCist: "Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We're all in the middle of a recession, like we're all going to...
A couple weeks ago we brought you this choice quote from Anthony Bourdain about his distaste for Alice Waters's particular brand of food orthodoxy...