How human composting will change death in the city
Mar 9, 2015, 5:53 pm By Katie Herzog
What we do with our dead can seem bizarre to outsiders. In a Tibetan tradition called sky burial,…How the U.S. Embassy used Twitter to clear China’s air
Mar 9, 2015, 5:17 pm By David Roberts
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…The GOP’s king corn problem
Mar 9, 2015, 3:02 pm By Donald Carr
Republican politics — especially the presidential primary — have become a contest of…Florida officials banned from talking about climate change
Mar 9, 2015, 11:10 am By John Light
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration has apparently instituted a ban on using the term…3 big food system problems begging for innovation
Mar 9, 2015, 8:07 am By Nathanael Johnson
When individuals want to help the world feed itself equitably, healthily, and sustainably, what…Which is worse, a K-Cup or a throw-away coffee cup?
Mar 9, 2015, 7:07 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I’m an ardent K-Cup hater and saw that you just covered their wastefulness. But if lazy people…The sharing economy is bullsh!t. Here’s how we can take it back
Mar 9, 2015, 7:00 am By Sam Bliss
The sharing economy is bullshit. Airbnb is a rental broker. Uber and Lyft are unregulated cab…Watch Obama call tar-sands oil “extraordinarily dirty”
3:03pm By Grist staff
President Obama disparaged the Keystone XL pipeline and the filthy oil it would carry during a town…Cabbage gets a delicious makeover
6:00am By Alexandra Stafford
Whenever I find myself eating pounds of vegetables in single sittings, I often have my sheet pan to…New York’s new solar plan sets a high bar
Sat 6:00am By Tim McDonnell
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. New York wants to get…Underwater, melting glaciers are louder than a symphony of chainsaws
Mar 6, 2015, 8:48 pm By Suzanne Jacobs
Think about the best rock concert you’ve ever been to. Pretty loud, right? Well, some parts of the…Take it easy, man: Marijuana is not turning New Yorkers into murderers
Mar 6, 2015, 8:06 pm By Ben Adler
Perhaps no factor has enabled the much-heralded urban renaissance more than declining crime rates.…The tiny house fantasy is getting a teensy bit out of control
Mar 6, 2015, 7:59 pm By Liz Core
You, like most of us, have likely spent hours sprawled on the wooden floor of your local book store…50 years after Selma, a search for environmental justice
Mar 6, 2015, 7:45 pm By Brentin Mock
Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of African Americans lined up on the Edmund Pettis…Is sustainability just for rich, white people?
Mar 6, 2015, 4:50 pm By Grist staff
Grist’s own Brentin Mock appeared on MSNBC’s Greenhouse this week to discuss the free…Will the ‘Dark Lord of Coal Country’ finally be brought to justice?
Mar 6, 2015, 3:19 pm By Mason Adams
A federal appeals court ruling has lifted the veil on months of legal jockeying in the upcoming…VICE takes on climate change, and guess what — it’s pretty bleak!
Mar 6, 2015, 2:56 pm By Eve AndrewsThe third season of VICE on HBO premieres tonight, and the star of the very first episode is — you…Obama admin punts on oil train safety — and another bomb train explodes
Mar 6, 2015, 2:12 pm By John Light
An oil train derailed and exploded in rural Illinois on Thursday afternoon — the third one in…Homobiles, SF’s queer ride service, is the anti-Uber
Mar 6, 2015, 1:07 pm By Heather Smith
Read parts 1 and 2 of the series. It’s Saturday night, and the drag queens in the back of the car…Here’s how much water goes into your food
Mar 6, 2015, 9:15 am By Grist staffAre you one of those people who suffers through 10-second showers in the name of water and energy…
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