Archive: Mar 2012
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New Melbourne restaurant runs on your pee
Melbourne’s Greenhouse restaurant wants your patronage. But more importantly, it wants your pee. That’s right — this pop-up restaurant, which is open from March 2 through the 21st in honor of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, wants you to get all up in its custom-made toilets. The green eatery is collecting human urine and […]
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Japanese zoo tries to make endangered alligators have sex
There are only 150 or so Chinese alligators left in the wild, which means that if they had any sense of mortality, these critters would be breeding like crazy. But apparently they don’t have the “survival of the fittest” will to reproduce, or maybe they just have a headache. So one Japanese zoo tried to […]
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Food hubs: How small farmers get to market
Creative distribution projects around the country are bringing local food to a wider audience.
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Meet the awesome dogs that are stamping out elephant poaching
A park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo employs a lean, mean team of adorable hounds to take on elephant poachers.
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Limbaugh mocks food justice writer for being an educated single woman
Well, I have a new career goal: Get publicly mocked by Rush Limbaugh for winning too many awards. Food justice writer and occasional Grist contributor Tracie McMillan achieved that honor yesterday, and I’m sure she’s feeling duly chastened for having the temerity to write successful books while being a lady and unmarried and in various other ways not Rush Limbaugh. […]
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Clean air ad featuring asthmatic kids is dangerously adorable
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) did a really good job at tugging every heartstring available in this new ad: Seriously, how much do you want to cry now? Maybe they really should send asthmatic kids into Congress as lobbyists. NRDC and Sierra Club are doing the closest thing possible without […]
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Critical List: Too many tornadoes; scientists help plant seeds reach Antarctica
Super Tuesday results: The rich guy who would be terrible for the environment won primaries in six states, the scary evangelist who would be terrible for the environment won three, and the sad nerd who should know better but would probably be terrible for the environment just to fit in won one. March has already […]
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Hard to stomach: How a fresh clam feast got the best of me
After harvesting a bucketful of fresh clams from a local beach, our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, learned something about the old saying, "Too much of a good thing …"
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No end in sight for the GOP’s holiday-from-reality primaries
As long as Mitt Romney fails to clinch his nomination, we'll be talking about all the wrong things.