Blog Profile / Grist
| URL : | http://grist.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Issues & Causes / Environmentalism | |
| Posts on Regator: | 10889 | |
| Posts / Week: | 40 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Zen and the art of bridge maintenance
When it comes to U.S. transportation infrastructure, we'd rather build new roads than deal with the old ones -- or the bigger questions about how we get around.
Fracking accident leaks benzene into Colorado stream
Benzene levels soared in a Colorado creek after a natural gas facility spilled hundreds of barrels of natural gas liquid. So why haven't those responsible been fined?
Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers’ feet
With an emergency rescue underway, Russia's 70-year tradition of placing research stations atop floating chunks of Arctic ice could be over.
This pedal-powered contraption can run a computer, split logs, or churn butter
Of course, you have to do the work of pedaling.
Awesome old cookbook shows that the 1904 raw food movement was really into meat and cream
Eugene and Mollie Griswold Christian make a lot of the same arguments for healthy living and raw food that you hear today. Only they make them in turn-of-the-century style.
Tornadoes — another argument for American exceptionalism
Three-fourths of all tornadoes worldwide touch down right here in the U.S. of A. Why are we so lucky?
Poverty moves to the suburbs
According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, big city lights may be growing brighter by the day, but the 'burbs are broke.
Could hairy buildings be the future of green architecture?
Well, probably not any time soon. But these theoretical Cousin Itt skyscrapers, covered in energy-collecting hairs, still look sweet as hell.
Support for climate action is the new normal in U.S.
Most Americans support efforts to boost green energy and combat global warming, though exuberance for climate action numbed a little over winter.
American meat labeling laws bolstered; Canadians indignant
You're about to get a whole lot of information about where your meat came from. Which displeases the Canadians, who say Americans discriminate against their livestock.
Idiots try to eat dinner on iceberg, get blown out to sea
Four American tourists were rescued after trying to have a picnic on an iceberg.
Disappearing glaciers: Now you see them, now you don’t
Glaciers worldwide aren't aging well. Watch some of the most famous ones fade before your eyes in this fascinating (and scary) interactive feature.
Spared by climate change: The 10 best cities to ride out hot times
Here are the places we’ll all be running to as the rest of the world goes to hell.
Chemical creep: Farmers return to pesticides as GMO corn loses bug resistance
As the crop-ravaging rootworm grows immune to Monsanto's Bt corn, farmers go back to spraying pesticides to protect their crops.
Utilities for dummies, part 2: Why we need competitive electricity markets (with fennecs!)
The electricity system is currently set up as dumb commodity system to provide cheap power. What we need is a smart system to provide energy services. To get there, we have to change utilities.
We love this bike-riding hipster cat
MJ cruises around town on her bike-courier owner's shoulder.
McDonald’s Mega Potato is 3/4 of a pound of fries, the highest-calorie item on the menu
As Zimmerman's law of fast food states, gross food can only get grosser and weirder.
This secret, invite-only bar was built inside a NYC rooftop water tower
N.D. Austin, the organizer, describes this project as "transgressive placemaking."
Connecticut Senate passes GMO-labeling bill
A similar bill is advancing in Maine. But the states are moving cautiously, afraid of triggering lawsuits from the food and ag industry.
Gut punch: Monsanto could be destroying your microbiome
The EPA and its buddies in Agribusiness just quietly upped your recommended daily allowance of Roundup. This could be seriously bad news for your belly.