Federal diet guidelines won’t mention food’s environment connection. Ugh.
6:54pm By Sam Bliss
Well, shoot. Looks like the Department of Agriculture’s new Dietary Guidelines for Americans…The point of the Keystone fight
6:40pm By David Roberts
Josh Green is a smart guy and a great writer, but I think he’s being uncharacteristically dense in…Planes have nobody but themselves to blame for making it harder to fly
5:31pm By Amelia Urry
Flying is a fraught subject, as we in the business of sustainability know intimately and well. But…Stop what you’re doing and watch Elizabeth Warren rip apart Keystone
4:53pm By Liz CoreEvery time Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) opens her mouth, I want to stand up and slow clap. She…Why death won’t keep me from biking in the city
3:28pm By Greg Hanscom
The Saturday after Christmas was balmy in Baltimore, drawing the bicyclists out into the north part…Is this the end of Cape Wind?
1:32pm By John Light
Cape Wind, the long-debated wind farm planned for waters off the coast of Nantucket, Mass., hit a…Texas city in fracking area is rocked by 11 earthquakes in 24 hours
12:04pm By John Light
On the heels of a report linking 77 earthquakes in Ohio to fracking, a Texas city in an area rife…Australia is so hot even the grapes wear sunscreen
7:48am By Amelia Urry
I may not have absorbed a lot of the good advice I got when I was younger (floss every day; sit up…Is it safe to drink water out of plastic pipes?
6:59am By Ask Umbra®
Q. We recently purchased an older home that needs to be re-plumbed. Everyone is saying PEX pipe is…Materialism makes you a broke jerk, says science
5:04am By Liz Core
Unless your friends and loved ones gave you backrub coupons for the holidays, you’ve probably…Leave the damn fossil fuels in the ground, says big nerdy study
Wed 4:52pm By Sam Bliss
To keep the climate somewhat safe and relatively stable, 82 percent of the world’s coal reserves,…Why do we have a Congress that hates the planet? Blame your anarchist roommate
Wed 3:50pm By Katie Herzog
Now that Congress is back in session and our newly elected and re-elected legislators are all geared…Senate Democrats plan to kneecap the GOP’s Keystone bill
Wed 1:47pm By Kate Sheppard
WASHINGTON –- The newly weakened Senate Democratic caucus is trying to muster all the opposition…Your commute says a lot about your salary
Wed 1:26pm By Eve Andrews
From the “well, duh” files of urban policy: A new report from the Rudin Center for…Fracking is definitely causing earthquakes, another study confirms
Wed 11:59am By John Light
Yet another study has found a link between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes. This one examined…Brazil’s new science minister is a climate denier
Wed 11:30am By John Light
Science advocates and environmentalists are expressing alarm after Brazilian President Dilma…Exclusive: Woods performs “It Ain’t Easy” — in the woods
Wed 8:00am By Grist staff
Brooklyn, N.Y. band Woods performed an intimate rendition of their song “It Ain’t Easy,” Aug.…Toyota is giving away its tech secrets for hydrogen-powered cars
Wed 7:42am By Sam Bliss
Remember when Tesla released all its intellectual property to the world, for free? As a refresher,…Don’t panic! Fukushima radiation just hit the West Coast
Wed 6:05am By Amelia Urry
Nuclear energy gives plenty of people the heebie-jeebies: Like horror-movie ghosts and ancestral…Maybe your grandkids will live to ride California’s high-speed rail
Wed 5:03am By Nathanael Johnson
In Fresno, Calif., there was a ceremonial groundbreaking Tuesday for California’s high-speed rail…
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