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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
ENVIRONMENT
The Greenie Pig’s Guide to a Cleaner, More Sustainable 2013
Each year, the New Year’s holiday brings us more than just a gingerbread hangover and a metric ton of empty champagne bottles — it serves up a natural opportunity to pause and take stock of our lives…Read Full Article
From Grist
HEALTH
Baby Boomer Nuns Help Revolutionize Health Care
The baby boomer generation’s efforts at creating social justice dramatically transformed history — from the Vietnam War to gay rights…Read Full Article
From CNN Health
OPINION
A Good Guy with a Gun?
A week after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association announced its solution to stemming the tide of school shootings…Read Full Article
SPACE
Astronauts Recycling in Space: NASA Turns Trash Into New Parts
What to do with waste is a problem not limited to the confines of planet Earth. NASA scientists are also wondering how to solve the problem of waste generated on board spacecrafts, and how that waste might be recycled into new items…Read Full Article
From Treehugger
NEWS
Malala Released from Hospital; Taliban’s Attack on Teen Sparked Outrage
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot and seriously wounded in October by the Taliban for speaking out about its efforts to bar girls from going to school, was released…Read Full Article
From NPR: The Two-Way
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