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Remembrance of things crap

Millions of tourists walk the freedom trail each summer, bringing home ridiculous pieces of our proud city’s history
Boston’s historic Freedom Trail gift shops are, clearly, the manifestation of our confusing, conflicted, amusing past.

By MEG MUCKENHOUPT | June 11, 2008

30 ways to have fossil-free fun in Boston this Summer

Pahk your damn cah
It’s tough to maximize your summer fun when, every time you start your engine, you realize that you’re strangling the last few breaths of life out of the planet’s 17 (or so) remaining white rhinos.

By MIKE MILIARD, JAMES PARKER, AND SHARON STEEL | June 12, 2008

It is the heat

. . . though humidity plays its part. Either way, global warming means sweating it out this summer.
“Going green” may be an annoying trendy catch phrase, but there’s something to be said for turning down the global thermostat before we all drown in a pool of our own sweat.

By CLIF GARBODEN | June 09, 2008

It's easy staying green

New England offers a variety of eco-friendly lodging options
This summer, don't leave home without your environmentalism.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 09, 2008

Eating righteously

Responsible summer dining has arrived
Worried that your favorite dining haunts leave a big, fat carbon footprint?

By LINDSAY CRUDELE | June 09, 2008

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