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Weekday Vegetarian: Crunchy-Topped Lentil Loaf

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 6:28pm
Now that the holidays are over, it's time to get back to healthy eating.
Categories: Environment

Cement Company to Pay $1.7 Million for Clean Air Act Violations

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 5:51pm
The settlement between Essroc Cement and the EPA and Department of Justice will reduce more than 7,000 tons of harmful nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide pollution.
Categories: Environment

4.0 Earthquake Caused by Fracking in Ohio Was Felt in Tornonto

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 5:17pm
After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.
Categories: Environment

2012: The Year to Stop Playing Nice.

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 5:08pm
No more bringing nerf cannons to a gunfight, this is the year that we have to get serious about saving our cities
Categories: Environment

"There Goes the Neighborhood." Two Ways to Deal with Foreclosed Homes

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 3:49pm
While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.
Categories: Environment

Ask Pablo: Is It Really Better To Recycle Paper?

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 3:20pm
Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there's arguments against recycling paper in each case.
Categories: Environment

The Difference Between Resilience & Sustainability? A Zombie Apocalypse

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 11:36am
The green movement needs to focus more on resiliance. And we can take notes from those surviving zombie take-overs.
Categories: Environment

Local T-Shirts Made from Local Cotton, Now Includes Organic Too

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 11:24am
Experts said you couldn't grow organic cotton in NC. But one initiative, which is already recreating a completely local supply chain for its t-shirts, set out to prove them wrong.
Categories: Environment

Building Low-Carbon UK Economy Will Cost Same as Continuing High-Carbon Infrastructure

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 11:17am
Critics often say that green energy is too expensive. A new open-source analysis tool says it's not. And that's not even taking into account the damage that fossil fuels create.
Categories: Environment

Using Ducks to Control Slugs in the Garden

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 11:01am
Slugs can be a nightmare in the garden. But if you keep ducks, they become animal feed. (And entertainment too.)
Categories: Environment

Black+Blum: British Industrial Designers With Practical and Whimsical Products

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 10:00am
Black+Blum designs household items that you want to use again and again.
Categories: Environment

Massive Wildfire Burns 30,000 Acres of Chilean Patagonia

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 4:34am
Authorities say that the devastating fire, which was only contained with the help of some 500 firefighters, was initially ignited by a tourist who simply failed to fully extinguish a toilet-paper roll he was burning.
Categories: Environment

Animal Tickle Tests Shed Light on the Origins of Laughter

Mon, 2012/01/02 - 4:08am
According to the BBC, researchers in the UK have essentially invented for themselves what might be the greatest job in the world: ticklin' for science.
Categories: Environment

Neti Pots, Home Remedy for Colds or Conduit for Infections?

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 8:20pm
Two recent deaths were caused by people using regular tap water
Categories: Environment

Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 7:55pm
It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.
Categories: Environment

My Favourite Stories of 2011: June

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 5:32pm
Two stories that were deeply important to me, and it seems to nobody else. I try to pump some life into them here
Categories: Environment

Woody Guthrie's 1942 New Years Resolutions Resonate Today

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 4:54pm
The great folksinger had 33 resolutions for the year; no record of how it turned out in the end
Categories: Environment

My Favourite Stories of 2011: April

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 4:14pm
In which I learn that irony and humour don't work well on the internet
Categories: Environment

One Hundred Years Ago Today: Scott Going South To the Pole, Amundsen Going North and Home

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 3:48pm
Kieran Muvany of Discovery News explains the difference in the two campaigns; One is doing a race, the other is doing science
Categories: Environment

My Favourite Stories of 2011: March

Sun, 2012/01/01 - 3:07pm
Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories
Categories: Environment