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Yes, the weather is heating up, and everybody is starting to plot their swimming trips (even a humpback whale tried to swim through New York harbor and up the Hudson river today). But for those of us who prefer the cruising currents of fresh water swimming over the eye-stinging waves of salt-water beaches, here’s a [...]

Maybe if U.S. currency wasn’t green, the whole concept of the “green revolution” and corporate “greenwashing” wouldn’t sound like such a disgusting corruption of vital ideals in the name of marketing. Here we are, though, in a country full of eager green buyers with disappearing green bills, so it’s not surprising that some extremely brown [...]

The other day we were biking down a windy street and saw the prettiest thing: a swirling, spinning cluster of little off-white petals dancing in the street and up into the sky. Then we realized that it’s winter and there shouldn’t be any petals around. They were styrofoam packing chips, and we suddenly felt very [...]