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Sunday was America Recycles Day, but since we were out gathering cans and bottles and the like we weren’t able to blog about it. As is out wont, we’re over-compensating for our oversight with this graphic listicle we found of 44 Recycling Logos, some of which may look familiar, while others are rather geographically specific [...]

We once thought that the funniest prank anybody could ever pull on an unsuspecting friend was the old box-inside-a-box-inside-a-box birthday gift, were what seems like a huge present turns out to be multiple layers of packaging with nothing at the center (or coal at the center, in the Christmas version). Now, our taste for comedy [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

Suburban design has clearly reached its sad and tragic end, but finding a way to make something out of the mess it’s left behind all over North America and the world is a massive and intimidating project. It seems as though for every suburb there’s an environmentally-sensitive plan for how things could be better. Well, [...]

We’ve been a little behind the ball lately with our advertising beat, so today is especially packed with funny commercials. Because after all, humor is the best medicine, and medicine has a tendency to be very addictive, which in turn explains how we got hooked on humorous commercials in the first place. The advertising overlords [...]

To be honest, we’ve always thought of hostels as being fairly environmentally friendly, especially compared to their big brothers in the hotel industry. Without the massive laundering facilities, industrial-power air conditioning and unlimited shower products in wasteful little plastic bottles, hostels are already a huge improvement over hotels. Still, it’s nice to know many of [...]

Oh how we wish we had access to a green roof, or a regular roof we could retrofit into a green roof. At any rate, this seems to be the only way we’re ever going to be able to reconcile our cosmopolitan and environmentalist lifestyles with one home. That’s why we not only enjoyed but [...]

It’s starting to look awful Springtime-y this edition of Sporty Saturdays, and so we’re thinking that instead of our usual movie marathon we might get out and do something fun (and active, yay!). Whatever we do out there, though, we won’t go golfing because, you know, golf courses are bad for the environment and generate [...]

When it comes to compelling stories about the living dead, it turns out that science is often stranger than science fiction. We don’t have to wait for the apocalyptic cannibalizing of our race by our dead, zombies already walk amongst us – they’re just really, really small. So small in fact that you might step [...]

Though LIsticles has yet to join the Twittering masses (lists are hard to pull off in 140 characters), we have a fairly substantial understanding of the new medium. Still, the options seem limitless, and so it’s nice every so often when someone we know and like narrows the focus somewhat and recommends some surefire twitterers [...]