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

I don’t know about you, but I plan to spend Sunday eating and drinking beer and watching lots of commercials and eating some more. Oh, and watching some football, I suppose

February 3 2012 | Posted in Business, Design, Earth, Energy, Food, Home, Transportation, Travel, Water | Read More »

Can the cinnamon challenge kill you?

If someone can explain the appeal of the cinnamon challenge, can they clue in the rest of us? The dastardly dare that has the Internet aflutter involves the task of eating a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, without water, in under a minute

February 3 2012 | Posted in Transportation, Water | Read More »

Meet the breed: Jack Russell terrier

Jack Russell terriers have been getting plenty of attention lately, thanks to a scene-stealing pooch named Uggie, who starred in Oscar-nominated film “The Artist” as well as “Water for Elephants.” In preparation for the annual Westminster parade of dogs, we offer a little background on a popular and precocious breed. ? Background An avid huntsman named the Rev. John Russell is credited with introducing this pint-size breed to southern England during the mid-1800s.

February 3 2012 | Posted in Transportation, Water | Read More »

Make it by Monday: 7 DIY Flower Vases

Welcome to? Make It By Monday , GOOD's weekly DIY feature in which we curate, demystify, and add our own tips for craft projects from around the web (and our apartments).

February 3 2012 | Posted in Earth, Food, Home, Water | Read More »

Newfound planet is best candidate yet to support life

A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star. ? The planet is located in the habitable zone of its host star, which is a narrow circumstellar region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.

February 2 2012 | Posted in Earth, Water | Read More »

The Next Generation of Renewable Energy May Be Created Under Water

When reporters, politicians, and environmental advocates talk about renewable energy, they talk about wind and solar. This makes sense: Of the newer generation of renewables, wind is contributing the lion's share of electricity generation. California’s wind energy association just announced that 5 percent of California’s power now comes from wind farms.

February 2 2012 | Posted in Earth, Energy, Water | Read More »

Radioactive water leak reported at Japan nuclear plant

Some 8.5 tons of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but it had not flowed outside the reactor building, Kyodo News said Wednesday, quoting the plant's operator. ? Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the leak occurred in the No.

February 2 2012 | Posted in Earth, Water | Read More »

Hundreds rescued as Papua New Guinea ferry sinks

More than 200 people were plucked from waters off Papua New Guinea on Thursday after a ferry sank but dozens remained missing with rescuers scouring the choppy seas for survivors. ? Operator Star Ships said it lost contact with the MV Rabaul Queen at about 6:00 a.m.

February 2 2012 | Posted in Earth, Water | Read More »

This is how crackpot ideas get traction

A “theory of everything” from a scientist at Case Western Reserve University got a lot of attention for positing that inanimate objects, from planets and water to strands of DNA, are alive.

February 1 2012 | Posted in GreenTech, Water | Read More »

Brazil’s Petrobras reports another oil spill

Brazil's state-run energy giant Petrobras on Tuesday reported that 160 barrels of crude oil may have spilled from a deep-water well off Sao Paulo state but said the situation was under control.

February 1 2012 | Posted in Earth, Energy, Water | Read More »