This is what a more sustainable American food system looks like
Aug 21, 2014, 12:44 pm By Eve AndrewsLet’s be real: The American food system today has some pretty daunting issues. We’re saddled…Governors love this pipeline in the Northeast, residents not so much
Aug 21, 2014, 8:07 am By Heather SmithFor months now, I’ve been reading about the 180 miles of gas pipeline that energy giant Kinder…What’s the best way to dispose of an old car battery?
Aug 21, 2014, 7:02 am By Ask Umbra®Q. I had to get a new battery for my car. I asked the guy what they did with the old one and he said…Walk to work — you’ll be happier
Aug 20, 2014, 8:59 pm By Sara BernardA recent survey from Montreal’s McGill University suggests that people who walk or take the…You might think bikeshares cut down on CO2, but the truth is complicated
Aug 20, 2014, 8:19 pm By Madeleine ThomasNearly 40 bikeshares have popped up across the U.S. since the first program launched in Tulsa in…See-through solar cells could turn your windows into power stations
Aug 20, 2014, 7:19 pm By Sara BernardAnd now for the latest in whizzbang solar technology: It’s invisible. Researchers at Michigan…Have you noticed our handsome new website?
Aug 20, 2014, 6:00 pm By Chip GillerDear Grist Nation, Spoiler alert: We’ve updated our website! OK, anyone with two eyes, at least…This meat substitute is all-natural and GMO-free — and might be making people sick
Aug 20, 2014, 3:32 pm By Nathanael JohnsonThe Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling on the FDA to pull the meat substitute…GOP candidate asks residents to mail him their pee
Aug 20, 2014, 2:01 pm By Tim MurphyIn the run-up to this fall’s rematch against Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-Ore.), Republican Art Robinson…Leaving Las Vegas, a city feeling the slow burn of climate change
Aug 20, 2014, 11:09 am By Greg HanscomThis is the final installment in a series of stories about Las Vegas and climate change. Find the…Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
Aug 20, 2014, 7:49 am By Nathanael JohnsonRomantic environmentalists tend to get the big-picture problems right, while fudging the details.…Meet the climate deniers who want to be president
Aug 20, 2014, 7:07 am By Ben AdlerIt’s hard to believe, surveying the GOP field of possible presidential nominees, but back in 2008…People are mistaking strangers’ cars for Ubers
Aug 19, 2014, 8:18 pm By Madeleine ThomasWe’ve all been there before: Accidentally liking an Instagram photo during a bout of late-night…Magical algae turns sewage into biofuel and Dasani
Aug 19, 2014, 7:35 pm By Sara BernardMaking biofuel out of algae has long been a goal of enterprising startups (and even teen…South African kids try to reconcile back-to-the-land with big-city dreams
Aug 19, 2014, 6:27 pm By Darby Minow SmithGoing back to the land isn’t strictly an American concept. This beautiful video from the perennial…Frackers are sending sludge to the Mitten State
Aug 19, 2014, 5:31 pm By Heather SmithAbout a week ago, LuAnne Kozma got an email from a friend. “Have you seen this?” the friend…Another coal export terminal bites the dust
Aug 19, 2014, 2:43 pm By Ben AdlerIn a blow to the struggling U.S. coal industry, yet another proposed coal export terminal on the…This marmot wants to make out with you because of climate change
Aug 19, 2014, 1:27 pm By Ted AlvarezGreenpeace was out filming the mini-doc Secretary Sally Jewell: #ParksNotCoal in Glacier National…Why Michael Brown had the right to stand his ground
Aug 19, 2014, 11:05 am By Brentin Mock“It’s like trying to fly, but they clipping your wings, and that’s exactly why the caged bird…Joel Kotkin thinks you want to live in Houston. Here’s why you don’t.
Aug 18, 2014, 8:55 pm By Ben AdlerThere are people who have made a career out of being consistently wrong, and then there’s Joel…
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