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Four foods you probably waste — and how to stop

Are these fresh ingredients languishing in your kitchen as we speak? Stop the food waste madness with these tips and recipes.

Haiku update: Reprieve for a boiling frog

Grist Haiku contest ends in dead heat. We're stymied. Frog, live on! (For now.)

Featured Friend: Tama B.

Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next level? Just donate any amount to join the fun.  Tama B. “Our family gives to Grist because we value current and informative articles involving the ‘green’ movement. […]

And yet more travel!

April’s been an insane month for me. I gave an hour-long talk on climate at the Monterey Institute (which featured my first-ever PowerPoint presentation!), which I believe was recorded and might be available some time soon (assuming I don’t watch it and decide to delete all copies). Then I went to Pierson College at Yale […]

A chat with Chris Mooney about The Republican Brain

Science journalist Chris Mooney talks about the GOP's war on science and the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives.

Help us get haiku

We asked for your best Earth Day haikus, and you rhymed beyond reason. Vote now to help Grist pick a winner!

Beyond hugging trees: Russian forest activist puts her life on the line, inspires democracy movement

Evgenia Chirikova won a Goldman Environmental Prize for her crusade to stop an illegal road through a preserved forest outside Moscow. Her work has inspired activists all over Russia -- and now the world.

What does your ideal street look like? A smart growth expert weighs in

Planner and smart-growth advocate Mike Lydon talks bike-friendly cities and bike-unfriendly cops, livable streets, and his ideal streetscape.

For Earth Day, let’s get haiku together

Retire one haiku and inspire another one! Email. Tweet. Repeat.

Michigan State University stands up to Big Coal

Michigan State operates the largest coal plant on a college campus in the nation. Students are pressuring the administration to retire it.