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What to do with an old bus? Turn it into a shower for San Francisco’s homeless
A new program in San Francisco provides mobile showers to the homeless by retrofitting old buses.
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Pittsburgh’s kale-lovers crying after another loss to the frackers
Like many well-intentioned things, an organic farm's fight against a natural gas compressor station failed.
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Just living close to Walmart makes you fat
A new study finds that people living near big box stores have higher rates of obesity and diabetes. What's the connection? Look at the streets.
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How one Pacific Northwest tribe is carving out a resistance to coal — and winning
A Grist fellow visited the Lummi Nation, to find out how the tribe has been able to successfully push back (so far) against Big Coal.
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Why the scientific case against fracking keeps getting stronger
Anthony Ingraffea argues that fugitive methane emissions turn natural gas from a climate benefit into yet another strike against fossil fuels.
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Killing young black men like Michael Brown is unsustainable in every sense of the word
In a world that is heating and cooling at increasingly uncontrollable rates, we need more black youth learning how to work with sustainable technology, and less of them in jail or dead.
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There’s oil-by-rail good news, and oil-by-rail bad news
Under new rules, old tank cars won't be ferrying explosive Bakken crude. Instead, they'll carry dirty tar sands crude.
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The men of Tinder have some pretty wild thoughts about women and climate change
How does one deal with the cognitive dissonance of being on a business trip in a place whose pop culture reputation revolves around lust and debauchery?
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Skip the Shark Week mockumentaries and watch real sharks on these live cams instead
Since the Discovery Channel is just making stuff up, we've put together a list of the best real-life shark cams. Call it The People's Shark Week.
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Want to step up your pesto game? Prepare to get down and dirty (with nature)
The best part about this pesto? The ingredients are mostly in your backyard.
