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Revisit an influential conversation that anticipated the growth of Extended producer responsibility (EPR), the idea that manufacturers of products and packaging should take responsibility for collecting and recycling the things they mak...

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Curbside food scrap collection has spread fast. BioCycle’s nationwide survey counted 14.9 million U.S. households with access to food waste collection in 2023, up 49 percent from 10 million two years earlier.

Getting those bins used is the harder part. Reported participation runs from near-universal in a handful of cit...

Yale researchers estimate that roughly 80 million Americans are alarmed about climate change. About 40 million of them say they want to be politically active on the issue. But only about 3 million actuall...

Ask an AI chatbot a simple question, and its answer uses about as much electricity as a microwave running for one second.

Now give that same AI a big job and let it work on its own. This is called an agent. It plans its own steps, searches the web, tries things, and keeps going until it thinks it is done. One of those jobs can use as much power as running your...

A dozen Grade A eggs peaked at roughly $6.22 in March 2025. In June 2026, the same dozen averaged $2.14.

That swing explains most of what happened in American backyards over the past two years. Bird flu emptied commercial henhouses, prices spiked, hatcheries sold ...