Happy Wednesday!   Here are some great stories to take you through your midweek.   • The oldest living things in the world   • Fixing New York City with Lego bricks   • Google is adding bike directions to Google Maps.

Greg Lindsay over at Fast Company published a piece about Detroit's plans to tear down large tracts of abandoned residential neighborhoods and replace them with natural space and farms, and asked a question I haven't seen many asking: is that really a good idea?   Detroit has seen a huge drain of citizens over the last few decades.

Birds just do not get the concept of “glass.” We’ve all surely had the experience of having a bird fly into a window at our home, office or school, usually with unfortunate consequences for the bird. But have you ever stopped to think about how widespread this phenomenon is and how many birds it might be killing annually?

Last April, I explored the seedy, sustainable underbelly of bird feeders and houses and featured seven backyard seed dispensaries sure to make you stand out from the flock. Well, it's not quite April — or spring for that matter — but over the past couple of days the sweet morning songs of Brooklyn's avian population have been audible from my living room window.

Glenn Beck has been losing advertisers in droves since last summer when he called President Obama a racist and said that he had a "deep-seated hatred for white people".   He ran afoul with one of his few remaining advertisers- companies in the gold business- when he was called out for pitching the benefits in investing in the precious metal on air during his TV

Anyone who's ever popped open a cold beer probably has good reason to be concerned about water quality. The folks at MillerCoors certainly share this awareness, which is why they have partnered with the River Network, a national organization partnering with water conservation groups, to offer $50,000 toward watershed protection programs nationwide.

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Most of us are familiar with the little numbers inside the chasing arrows on plastics. But we may not realize that even though a plastic has a number assigned to it, it may not be recyclable. The numbers are known as resin identification codes, and they are used simply to distinguish types of plastic from each other.

Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term president of the Sierra Club who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died.