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Seattle’s King County Confronts Citizens’ True Carbon Footprint

If a community wants to decrease carbon emissions, it needs to tackle emissions created outside its borders to produce the goods it consumes.

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London Restaurants Shame Drinkers Into Saying No to Plastic Straws

If businesses are going to promote more sustainable choices, they should promote choices that matter.

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A Modest Proposal for a More Sustainable Super Bowl (Beer Still Included)

We are not going to give up the Super Bowl. But we can try to minimize its impact.

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How to Green Your Holiday Travel

I've come to think of getting to Christmas as another part of the season's indulgence. But there are ways to get home and hold onto green principles.

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Carbon-Footprint Calculator Helps Lazy Americans Fight Climate Change

More Americans have been giving themselves a break on taking actions to limit climate change. That needs to stop.

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Four Reasons We Must Re-engineer Free Market Capitalism

Capitalism is broken. Here are a few good ideas on how to fix it, and solve a few other problems in the process.

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Infographic: A Century of Meat Consumption

A 100 years' worth of data reveals a beef decline and a chicken boom, and also raises the great egg debate—are they meat or not?

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Feast Your Eyes: The Original 7-Eleven

Last Friday, 7-Eleven became the retailer with the most number of stores worldwide—but it started out as a simple country store selling milk and eggs.

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.