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3 fun, fruity, end-of-summer Labor Day cocktails

Open up the liquor cabinet, pull out your shaker, and celebrate your hard work with a cocktail.




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Anyone up for a savory cocktail made with chicken or beef broth?

Stocktails are simply savory cocktails made with broth, and we talk to an expert about why they're such a hit.




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Raise a glass to Robert Burns on Burns Night

Break out the whisky and the haggis for this celebration of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns.




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7 beer cocktails for your Super Bowl party

Add variety to your football-viewing drink choices with these beer cocktails.




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Nonalcoholic cocktails, and those who drink them, deserve respect

Nonalcoholic cocktail drinkers deserve balanced drinks, beautiful glassware and the ritual of drinking a cocktail, too.




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6 zero-proof cocktails for your Super Bowl Party

Try these non-alcoholic cocktails, zero-proof cocktails. Your non-imbibing friends will thank you for giving them great choices.




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Can you guess the animal by its tail?

Take the tail end of a hint and see if you know the answer!




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How much do you know about rain?

From spring showers to summer thunderstorms, rain can fall any time of year. But how does it work?



  • Climate & Weather

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Your brain on bugs: Can you ID these insects?

See if you know the difference between a bedbug, a beetle and these other creepy-crawlies.




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How much is that famous painting really worth?

When a painting sells for a jaw-dropping price, it makes headlines. Do you know how much these works of art went for?



  • Arts & Culture

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The Earth's mountains, rocks and water bodies are ancient. Do you know how old they are?

The Earth's mountains, rivers, animals and rocks have been around for millions or billions of years. Do you know which ones have been around the longest?



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Is wood a sustainable source of energy?

Hearth and Home Technologies says 100 million homes can be heated sustainably with wood pellets.



  • Research & Innovations

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Survey: Women fail on energy knowledge

When it comes to decisions on electricity and energy policy, women do not have the facts they need.




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Solar industry is evolving — and experiencing growing pains

A well-known Chinese solar power company has filed for bankruptcy, but this may actually be a sign of health for the industry.




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London officials consider more public drinking fountains

Mayor Sadiq Kahn wants Londoners to stay hydrated with public water fountains while generating less plastic waste.




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Ready to plog? Fitness craze pairs aerobic exercise with litter removal

Sweden is to thank (go figure) for a hot new lifestyle trend known as plogging that encourages participants to beautify cities while burning calories.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Dutch supermarket debuts world's first plastic-free aisle

Organic supermarket chain EkoPlaza teams with an anti-plastic waste group to launch a supermarket aisle liberated from plastic packaging.




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How a poop-filled train from NYC wound up in rural Alabama

While easy to focus on the gross-out factor, the tale of a stranded train filled with sewage sludge shines a light on the complicated afterlife of our waste.




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Britain gets serious about curbing plastic waste

From Buckingham Palace to the BBC, British institutions are putting the kibosh on single-use plastic.




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Ikea to combat air pollution in India by turning farming waste into home goods

Although new on the Indian retail scene, Ikea already has big plans to alleviate one of the country's largest environmental ills.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Brain-training games may work, or they may not

In case you want to give brain-training games a shot, here are 4 to try.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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The real meaning of those stolen climate e-mails

The pilfering of e-mail correspondence among climate scientists from a major climate center in Britain two weeks ago has grown into a very public controversy un



  • Climate & Weather

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Buy into 'Climategate'? You're either paid or played

A few hacked e-mails does not overturn the mountain of science behind global warming, and if you think otherwise you're either coldly disingenuous or informatio



  • Climate & Weather

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Scientist to The Daily Mail: I didn't say the Earth was cooling

Phil Jones and The Union of Concerned Scientists say The Daily Mail misrepresented a statement about climate change data to support skeptics' claims.



  • Climate & Weather

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Computer chip breakthrough mimics brain synapse

Today HP unveils a breakthough in powerful computer chip technology that can process data, store memory and stack 3-dimensionally.. just like a brain synapse.




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Are you energy-savvy about your entertainment devices?

Do energy vampires haunt your living room? Find out if you are electricity-savvy with your entertainment devices.




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Meet the bears at Katmai National Park

Brown bears visit Brooks River every summer to enjoy some delicious salmon, and humans can come along for the ride via webcams.




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This stray tagged along with mountain climbers and set an elevation record for dogs

A street dog named Mera tagged along with a expedition and climbed 23,389-foot Baruntse, a mountain in Nepal.




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Rain Organics vodka

Here's a vodka that treads lightly on the earth and deliciously on the palate




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How can I get my green husband to wear underwear again?

Columnist Matt Hickman offers advice on how to get a crunchy-granola, green husband to wear underwear.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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Getting to the roots of organic hair dye

Find out if organic hair dye stacks up with our fashion and beauty correspondent, Jolene Eyre.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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Review: Organic Cotton Bedding by Gaiam

The Organic Cotton Percale Bedding from Gaiam takes a few washes to soften up, but then settles into being a wonderfully comfortable set of sheets.



  • Wilderness & Resources

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Whole Foods cracks down on organic claims

Starting June 2011, beauty products making 'organic' claims will have to meet the same certification standards as food products at Whole Foods.



  • Natural Beauty & Fashion

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Green Mountain Coffee addresses single-use servings

Longtime eco-friendly coffee makers attempt a green solution to the waste of single servings.




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Wal-Mart announces sustainable agriculture goals

During a live webcast, Walmart reveals its new global sustainable agriculture goals.



  • Sustainable Business Practices

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Organic companies against labeling GMOs?

With so many organic companies owned by large corporations, some of their profits may be used to fight Proposition 37 – which would require genetically modifi




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Organic gets its own exclusive, top-level domain

Websites that end with .organic will go through a verification process before they can go live.




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Which exercise is best at boosting brain power?

Researchers put running, weightlifting and interval training to the test to see which one was best for the brain.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Men and women feel pain differently

Several studies reveal how each gender responds — and it has a lot to do with what's causing the pain and if it has happened before.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Help for diners looking for sustainable seafood

Websites point restaurant goers to local eateries that support sustainable seafood.




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Atlantic City restaurant goes sustainable and local

Nero's Grill at Caesars is changing the gambling town's image by sourcing sustainably.




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Sustainable seafood meets mobile gaming

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch iPhone app has added Project FishMap. Now you can add green restaurants to a shared map to earn badges.




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How to find sustainable seafood restaurants

Tired of quizzing your waiter about where your seafood comes from? Here's a website and other tools that can help with your restaurant research before you go.




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On NYC's High Line, the food carts serve sustainable fare

Our food blogger and her family find plenty of sustainable choices to munch on high above the New York City streets.




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Philadelphia's Franklin Fountain scoops up locally made ice cream

Fresh and delicious, the ice cream from this popular Old City, Philadelphia store is worth the wait.




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Philadelphia’s Table 31 serves up delicious sustainable fare

Taking a cue from the LEED certified building it’s housed in, Table 31 sources sustainably and creates dishes that contributes to Philadelphia being a dining




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Can McDonald's keep its fish supply sustainable?

McDonald's adopts the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue ecolabel for its Filet-O-Fish. Will high demand for the sandwich create an overfishing problem?




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5 ideas to green your all-white-attire affair

Ideas to green a white attire dinner that is all the rage.




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New energy-efficient lighting technology contains no mercury

Researchers use nanofibers to create lights that are more energy-efficient than the common incandescent light bulb, more eco-friendly than a CFL — and they gi



  • Research & Innovations

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A scary haircut for the environment

MNN's lifestyle blogger sent her hair in to get tested for mercury levels — and waited with bated breath to get the results. How would your hair score?