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China’s latest fashion craze: Smog masks
Air pollution in China is a national problem -- but that's not stopping the fashion industry from glammin' up the protective gear!
How to eat local during the zombie apocalypse
Hope you're planning to stock that bunker with some home-canned local goodies!
Why climate rap actually improves the dreaded school assembly
For the past five years, the Alliance for Climate Education has been schooling kids on climate change. A new study says it's working.
Watch Mark Bittman talk almond milk, hamburgers, and more
We force New York Times food writer Mark Bittman to choose between almond and dairy milk -- plus other hard calls.
If you don’t kill your own meat, at least watch The Slaughter
A short film about a father and son on a hog farm gets at agriculture's hard trade-offs and everyday traumas.
Food expiration dates are garbage. Here’s a new label that’ll make you think before you toss.
Bump Mark, a new food label made out of gelatin, could substantially reduce the amount of food sent to landfills each year.
Uber says half its drivers make $90K a year — yeah, right.
The ridesharing company employs some questionable math to calculate the mean income of a NYC UberX driver. Let's run those numbers again.
Millennials could make a difference on climate, if they voted
A new poll revealed that young people care about reducing carbon emissions, but they're less likely to get out to the polls to vote.
5 things still broken 2 years after Superstorm Sandy
The disastrous hurricane hit two years ago this week. But red tape has made rebuilding painfully slow.
