Adam Yamaguchi investigates one of the world’s biggest public health crises: billions living without toilets.

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World’s Toilet Crisis – Preview
Adam Yamaguchi investigates one of the world’s biggest public health crises: billions living without toilets.

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World’s Toilet Crisis – Preview
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Mariana van Zeller uncovers the culture of silence around sexual abuse on Native American reservations.

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Rape on the Reservation
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Andrew Sullivan shows us the world’s luckiest bicyclist, and writes that “it looks as if he barely notices.” It’s true…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The World’s Luckiest Cyclist (video)
Image credit: Ladislav Kamarad The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano temporarily shut down Europe—and put Iceland squarely on the front page of newspapers around the world. It also highlighted the fact that Iceland—in spite of the many glaciers covering the island—is hardly a frozen monolith. Indeed, it’s a country defined by an ever-changing and dramatic landscape.

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Iceland’s Dramatic Landscape: Volcanoes, Glaciers, Deserts, and More (Slideshow)
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photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages. Which, seemingly on cue, has aroused opposition to them on the usual grounds, as the

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Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater
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Marion Nestle (via Apartment Therapy ) quotes a paper by Harvard pediatrician David Ludwig and Tufts professor Alice Lichtenstein that suggests home economic classes be reintroduced to schools. Girls and boys should be taught the basic principles they will need to feed themselves and their families w… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bring Back Home Ec (and Shop Class)
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Images from bdonline : Vertebrate by Metalanguage Design This 5 star hotel for insects sounds better than most of the dumps that I’ve stayed in… Award winning, designed by prestigious architects and a great location in the middle of a park. Where have I gone wrong? The 5 short-listed projects for the Beyond the Hive Competit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Architects Design 5 Star Hotel for Insects
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Photo via the Times Online Public policy expert and Salon writer Robert Reich thinks he should . In a persuasive piece that’s the sort of idea du jour in the green blogosphere, he argues that the Obama administration needs to put BP into a temporary receivership, allowing the federal government to have direct authority over the flailing company. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Should Obama Temporarily Take Over BP?
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