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U.S. Recycling Efforts Stumble as Chinese Trade Rules Sink In

Many U.S. households continue to recycle cardboard, paper, and plastic, but a change in China's import rules is sending more of this material to landfills and incinerators as recycling programs…

How We Use 322 Billion Gallons of Water Every Day

This post originally appeared at Ensia. As climate change, urban development, irrigation, and other factors are altering the availability of water, it’s important to understand how we use water on…

2019 Is the Year of Energy Codes

If there’s a defining theme for the building sector in 2019, it’s energy codes. Actions to update the rules that cities and states set to determine how effectively new residential…

Frugal Happy: We Have a Floor on Our Ceiling

Editor’s Note: This post is one of a series by Chris Stratton and Wen Lee, a husband-and-wife team living in the Los Angeles area who are turning their 1963 suburban…

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Want Clean Indoor Air? Don't Bank on Houseplants

Finding articles online that extoll the many air-cleansing benefits of houseplants is a cinch, but the assertions are mostly hype with little grounding in fact. So writes Robinson Meyer in…

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