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Responsible Living

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  • Businesswoman with money

    Happiness versus cash: Which would you choose?

    Fri, Sep 30, 2011 12:06 PM by Remy Melina, LiveScience

    Social status, wealth and family happiness tended to outrank personal happiness according to a new study.

  • Watch: Green teen speaks out against plastic

    Wed, Sep 28, 2011 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    J.D. Russo argues, 'We don't need to raise awareness. We need to raise care. Because people know, they just don't care.'

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  • Learning how to protect the planet

    Tue, Sep 27, 2011 8:58 AM

    Video: Budding environmentalists learn how to become tomorrow’s environmental leaders in a special Nature Conservancy program.

  • Forced laborers

    What's your slavery footprint?

    Thu, Sep 22, 2011 11:21 AM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby

    A new website helps consumers determine how much forced labor has been used to create specific products.

  • Woman gardening

    Why we should listen to our parents (and grandparents)

    Wed, Sep 21, 2011 3:18 PM

    With our economy in the throes of a recession and wasteful spending on the outs, maybe our parents' old adage 'waste-not-want-not' was correct.

  • Volunteers

    People who volunteer for selfless reasons live longer, new study shows

    Mon, Sep 19, 2011 10:45 AM by LiveScience

    Study: People who volunteered for selfish reasons or who didn't volunteer at all had a 4 percent mortality rate.

  • 8 amazing kids who have changed the world

    8 amazing kids who have changed the world

    Wed, Sep 14, 2011 8:03 AM by Katherine Butler

    Here are eight young people who have made an impressive mark on history and our world.

  • What's in our landfills?

    Fri, Sep 09, 2011 9:43 PM by Shea Gunther

    If you cracked open your average landfill, what would you find inside? The answers might surprise you.

  • landfill

    Wasting away: Our garbage by the numbers

    Wed, Sep 07, 2011 8:59 AM by Laura Moss

    In today's culture of mass consumption, the things we throw away often disappear with the garbage truck and vanish from our minds, but all that trash has to go somewhere. Look at the numbers, and you'll be appalled.

  • EcoKat and Willie the Wildcat

    Meet EcoKat, the eco-enforcing Kansas State University mascot

    Thu, Sep 01, 2011 3:16 PM by John Platt

    The masked crusader of conservation has not been heroically accepted by football fans.

  • How do I get my teens interested in volunteering?

    Mon, Aug 29, 2011 10:55 AM by Matt Hickman

    Whatever kids are into — cooking, pets, celebrities — there are volunteer opportunities to match. (Driver's license privileges can also be inspiring.)

  • plastic and garbage in ocean

    Raising awareness of plastic waste

    Sun, Aug 14, 2011 8:00 PM by Bettina Wassener, Boston Globe

    More people will soon become familiar with the concept of a plastic footprint.

  • Volunteer David Cundiff shows children how to make a newspaper planter

    Americans spent 8 billion hours volunteering in 2010

    Sun, Aug 14, 2011 5:09 AM by Bernd Debusmann Jr., Reuters

    Gen Xers volunteered the most of anyone, devoting 2.3 billion hours to various causes.

  • Pick Up Artists walk across the country picking up trash

    Sat, Aug 13, 2011 9:25 AM by Shea Gunther

    The Pick Up Artists are a group of young people who are literally walking across the country picking up roadside trash as they go.

  • Paper Culture cards

    Eco-friendly customized cards

    Fri, Aug 12, 2011 2:55 PM by Siel Ju

    Need personalized stationery or paper event invites? Paper Culture offers customized cards printed on 100-percent recycled, FSC-certified paper.

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