Packaging materials

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Paper Made

Don’t recycle, upcycle! A new book explains how to create fun and functional projects from scrap paper.

Mushroom Packaging

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Paper Oaths

Cool Fix

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Emerging Science Note/Herbs Under Wraps

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Emerging Science Note/Herbs Under Wraps

Living on Earth’s Cynthia Graber reports that basil-infused plastic wrap might help keep food fresh longer.

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Tech Note/Sticky Solution

Living on Earth’s Cynthia Graber reports on a new technique to deal with adhesives that clog up paper recycling.

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Green Rockers

Arts, Culture & Media

Corn-based shrink wrap on the CDs, biofuel buses, recycling riders, organic hair spray: this is the greening of rock n’ roll. Sarah Lemanczyk talked to the indie rock band Cloud Cult, which manages its carbon footprint and has fun at the same time.