If you forgot a gift, you can always hug it out
Dec 25, 2014, 9:07 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…6 things to laugh about from 2014, a real trash can of a year
Dec 25, 2014, 8:23 am By Eve Andrews
All across the infinite virtual trash heap that is the internet, people are claiming that 2014 was…Please save my favorite Christmas cookies, reader begs
Dec 25, 2014, 7:09 am By Ask Umbra®
Q. I grew up with pizzelles and have made them for most of my 58 years. But now I am in a quandary,…Love and long-distance travel in the time of climate change
Dec 24, 2014, 3:43 pm By Eve Andrews
This is the first time in my life that I’ve spent the holidays in a fairly unfamiliar place,…Lessons from 2014: If you care about green cities, you must care about justice too
Dec 24, 2014, 7:01 am By Greg Hanscom
What’s the old saying about life being what happens while you’re busy making other plans? Right.…These fantastic maps showed us different worlds in 2014
Dec 24, 2014, 6:06 am By Heather Smith
I love maps to a ridiculous degree — I even worked on a book of them once, a gig that involved…A bit of good green energy news for your holidays, courtesy of New England
Dec 23, 2014, 7:49 pm By David Roberts
I write about bad news pretty much all the time, so for the holiday season, let’s check out a…Violent cops suffocate the street life they claim to protect
Dec 23, 2014, 6:21 pm By Ben Adler
On Saturday afternoon, Ismaaiyl Brinsley — whose last known address was in Georgia, who had arrest…How to win at last-minute holiday shopping (hint: buy vintage)
Dec 23, 2014, 6:19 pm By Sam Bliss
At Grist, we’re all about making the holidays less commercial. Over the last couple weeks, our…Have people of color been locked out of the green economy?
Dec 23, 2014, 5:36 pm By Brentin Mock
One of my first stories of 2014 was an interview with Reginald Parker, an African-American…Life in the bike lane was pretty good in 2014
Dec 23, 2014, 3:17 pm By Madeleine Thomas
Much to the delight of the staff here at Grist, 2014 was a banner year for bikes.…Bad news for wheat and eaters everywhere
Dec 23, 2014, 1:55 pm By Fiona Harvey
Global wheat yields are likely to fall significantly as climate change takes hold, new research has…2014 was stuffed with good food news that you never heard about
Dec 23, 2014, 12:47 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The food movement has done a great job winning the hearts and minds of eaters, but not such a great…How to make sure none of your holiday cookies go to waste
Dec 23, 2014, 7:14 am By Sam Bliss
You may have heard that oft-quoted statistic: 40 percent of food produced in the United States goes…Redeem this story for one last-minute, totally green gift idea
Dec 23, 2014, 7:08 am By Amelia Bates
Instead of buying cheap, mass-produced gewgaws to give out this season, show your loved ones you…Protest too much? 2014 was a big year for rabblerousing
Dec 23, 2014, 6:03 am By Heather Smith
Last year at this time I sat in a hotel lobby, surrounded by multigenerational families digging into…Obama blows a chance to crack down on coal
Dec 22, 2014, 7:35 pm By Ben Adler
On Friday, the Obama administration quietly passed up an opportunity to make the coal industry clean…Could flooding finally wake Americans up to the climate crisis?
Dec 22, 2014, 4:14 pm By David Roberts
One of the perennial discussions in climate circles is about which impacts will break through the…This was an epic year for droughts, floods, and extreme weather
Dec 22, 2014, 2:26 pm By John Metcalfe
Stick your hand over a lit stove and you can get a feel for 2014’s overall climatic situation:…From Trump to Hobby Lobby, the worst anti-science stories of 2014
Dec 22, 2014, 1:24 pm By Tim McDonnell
2014 had its fair share of landmark scientific accomplishments: dramatic cuts to the cost of…
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