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Peacekeepers and direct-action proponents prepare for climate protest, in very different ways

Tips: Keep your phone in your pocket, and practice being water.

Heather Smith Politics

Liveblog: Come along with us to the People’s Climate March

Stay tuned for updates on the biggest climate action the world has ever seen.

Climate Desk Politics

Forage for wild seeds today, munch on crunchy granola tomorrow

Foraged plants are always more fun to cook. Here's how to make granola with wild foxtail millet.

Tama Matsuoka Wong Culture

Even the U.N. building is getting into the spirit

Spotted in NYC: a message of hope on the U.N. headquarters building, ahead of Sunday's People's Climate March and Tuesday's U.N. Climate Summit.

Grist staff Climate & Energy

Here’s your anthem for the People’s Climate March

Antonique Smith has covered Marvin Gaye's classic "Mercy Mercy Me," and it's more apt than ever in our climate-changed times.

Grist staff Culture

What to do when you’re running out of time on climate change

Time to start rocking the climate-change boat. Before time runs out.

Rebecca Solnit Climate & Energy

11 short stories about the People’s Climate Train

Singing, burning sage, chowing down, and getting robbed on a cross-country train full of protesters en route to New York's big march.

Heather Smith Politics

Northwest states talk green, invest dirty

Oregon and Washington stealthily finance fossil fuel projects despite their governors' climate-caring rhetoric.

Sam Bliss Politics

Population could hit 12 billion, unless, you know, birth control

The world's population could rise to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion by the end of the century. The thing that'll slow it? Improving women's healthcare.

Liz Core Culture

We’re way more screwed than we were the last time the U.N. had a big climate meeting

It's been five years since the Copenhagen climate conference, and things have just gotten worse.

Ben Adler Politics

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