The Unclutterer calls them Unitaskers; things that do just one thing and take up space the rest of the time. Mark Bittman says that all you need to cook is “A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons, all... 

That’s the Ady Gil colliding with the Japanese vessel. Photo: Sea Shepherd. I admit I’m sympathetic to Sea Shepherd ’s cause, but this all is just getting weirder and weirder: The latest is that the Japanese Coast Guard has arrested... 

Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for ‘organic’ clothing appears to be ending. Poverty has become... 

Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew Lecky So many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court in the... 

Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China,... 

“Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it’s becoming mainstream” Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist Here is the original post:  Riding in New York with Village... 

NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if... 

Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition….... 

World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit: Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for... 

Guess who’ll pay for the new energy tax? the ad reads, in lettering right above four portraits of hardworking Americans. Perhaps it’s Getty Images, the stock photo company from which all four photos of supposedly ‘real’ Americans...