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Environment
Scotland Launches a Much Smarter Recycling Program
Scotland is completely reorganizing how it measures and incentivizes recycling to focus on what matters most: reducing carbon. It's a global first.
Lifestyle
Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant
A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.
Environment
Infographic: Waste in Space
A look at the massive amount of space garbage orbiting the planet.
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Spaghetti with Built-In Portion Control
This elegant hexagonal spaghetti package contains six single portions, so you can make the right amount no matter how many people you're cooking for.
Environment
"Plastic State of Mind" Mock Music Video Makes Damn Good Case for Banning Disposable Shopping Bags
Watch this mock music video and learn everything you need to know about why plastic bags are really, really dumb.
Environment
House Republicans Bring Styrofoam Waste Back Into the Capitol Coffee Shop
But their waste is only a little worse than the Democrat waste it's replacing.
Lifestyle
BYO Flat-Pack Recycling Bin: Useful or Not?
A French firm has designed a portable six-compartment recycling bin for use at spontaneous picnics. Vote to let us know what you think: useful or not?
Environment
Protesters Are Awesome: Watch Egyptian Volunteers Clean the Streets
As one of the protesters in this video puts it, "We are here cleaning our country Egypt, which is our property and not anyone else's."
Lifestyle
Dietary Supplements: Tuesday, February 1
Dietary Supplements is a daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!
Lifestyle
TourDeFork's Clever Designs Give Food Scraps a Second Chance
Hold onto your orange peel and coffee grounds: Italian design studio Tour de Fork wants to make your trash bag smaller and your house smell better.
Environment
Video: Van Jones Speaks at TEDxGPGP on the Economic Injustice of Plastic
Van Jones talks about the injustices—health, economic, environmental—of plastic and our addiction to disposability.
Culture
The Ghosts of Christmas Trees Past: Seven Sidewalk Disposal Styles
Will Etling takes us on a visual tour of the funniest, saddest, and most inventive methods of Christmas tree disposal on Southland sidewalks.
Lifestyle
Gulf Oil Spill Redux: Gelatinized Beef Fat in the Houston Ship Canal
U.S. Coast Guard photos of the beef tallow leak that closed down the Houston Ship Canal earlier this week.
Lifestyle
What Does a Sustainable Restaurant Look Like?
Celebrity chef Arthur Potts Dawson's TED talk explores how to create zero-waste restaurants and supermarkets.
Technology
Thwarting Waste with a File Format That Can't Be Printed
The World Wildlife Fund has released a new file format—WWF, of course—which is, essentially, "a PDF that cannot be printed out."
Lifestyle
Sanergy: A Startup That Plans to Turn Waste into Energy in Africa
A new business venture called Sanergy is trying to turn Kenya's sanitation problem into jobs, energy, and profits.
Cities
Verizon Asks Permission to Stop Delivering Phone Books
Two more states and the District are close to abandoning the unnecessary, wasteful paper phone book.
Technology
Video: Canadians Return Hundreds of Phone Books to Yellow Pages Office
Two Canadians collect hundreds of unrequested and unused Yellow Pages books and dump them back on the doorstep of the Yellow Pages offices.
