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What’s my greenest tea option?

A reader wonders if there's such thing as recyclable tea packaging. Umbra strains for an answer.

Ask Umbra® Culture

A New Year’s scramble to obey California’s hard-boiled egg laws

By aiming rules at eaters rather than farmers, California's bid to change poultry farming might actually succeed.

Nathanael Johnson Technology

Your new favorite TV show will make you drool

Perennial Plate's take on the PBS classic Victory Garden will take you on a tour of America's food scene.

Grist staff Culture

Grist horoscopes will tell you how to survive 2015

Or not. Sorry, Virgos.

Eve Andrews Culture

When farm country doesn’t mean fresh food

A lack of infrastructure means the same stale food as everywhere else.

Darby Minow Smith Culture

3 stories that will shape the climate fight in 2015

Thanks to some of the past year's less-expected developments, environmentalism and the climate movement may have some rare opportunities for progress in 2015.

Heather Smith Politics

This Mark Bittman cooking video will give you an easy goal to shoot for in the new year

A gentle suggestion: Maybe you should learn how to cook in 2015.

Eve Andrews Culture

7 species that moved closer to extinction in 2014

From northern white rhinos to Bangladesh's sloth bears to the Christmas Island forest skink: These animals had a worse year than you.

Amelia Urry Culture

10 resolutions for a guilt-free new year

Here at Grist, we've decided to take our resolutions and our commitment to easing the burden of humanity on our planet seriously. Join us!

Katie Herzog Culture

From Emma Watson to Interstellar, here’s where the planet had a cameo in 2014

Here are some of our favorite green highlights from this year in the culture at large, from the cinema to the symphony halls.