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HOW TO: Convert Your Gas Mower to Solar Power.
Okay, so it's not just a simple plug-and-play adjustment to that monster fossil fuel guzzler, but this tutorial from Appropedia - the sustainability wiki - actually seems like it'd work. It replaces the combustible...
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HOW TO: Expand Your Mind on the Way to Work
If you're like a lot of people I know, you listen to your iPod during your morning commute. What do you listen to? Next time you're sick of all your music, pop on over to...
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HOW TO: Find Out What the Unpronounceable 8-Syllable Ingredients in Your...
Hunt-and-peck the ingredient's name into Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic Safety Database (it's called "Cosmetic", but it's all personal-care products, not just makeup). For many ingredients, the results are not pretty.
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HOW TO: Guess what? Your body is full of toxic waste.
Body burden. Toxic trespass. Chemical contamination. What does it all mean?Each of these phrases refers to the load of synthetic chemicals that each human being on this planet carries. Yes, even you. Not even people...
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HOW TO: Use GIS Resource to Track Toxic Releases and Superfund Sites Nea...
Check out the National Library of Medicine's newly updated GIS resource TOXMAP. It's a little scary - I grew up smack-dab in the middle of a huge blob of blue. Blue dots indicate Toxic Release...
