You don't need electricity to do the laundry. It's as easy as riding a bike. My wife's 90-year-old aunt still washes her laundry by hand, and dries it with a wringer. God bless her. But if you're a little busier, you can keep you

Undoubtedly, rice is the most important grain in the world. Billions of people depend on it for sustenance. Growing it in the backyard, though, is challenging -- but not impossible. You'll have the best luck with it if you live in the South (Texas, Louis

When selecting trees from their southwest Wisconsin property to use in the construction of their new home, farmers Marcia Halligan and Steven Adams passed over the stately oaks and the sturdy maples, choosing instead the weak and diseased trees. They did

For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent.

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"In America, we are recalibrating our sense of what it means to be a citizen, not just through voting or volunteering, but also through what we buy. ... We are seeing the rise of the citizen consumer -- and the beginnings of a responsibility revolution."

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It's hard to believe that before the early 20th century, almost every city in the world was "car-free." Zoom ahead 100 years later, and you have to do some real digging to escape the army of cars now clogging the planet's roads and highways. Sure, there a

Over 40% of the world's oceans are heavily impacted by human activities with few areas--if any--left unaffected by anthropogenic factors. This means we humans--and what we deem civilization--have played a major role in the despoiling of the earth's oceans. I