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Welcome to the urban jungle: Nature in cities is Grist’s July theme
This month, look at how nature gets into our cities and under our skin, even where we least expect it.
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16-year-old has finally succeeded in making plastic out of banana peels
A few years ago, Elif Bilgin, now 16, began thinking about slimy, used banana peels in an entirely new light.
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Mongolia’s most unlikely new environmentalists also happen to be neo-Nazis
But there are plenty of Mongolian environmentalists who don't also happen to be neo-Nazis, too.
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Energy Secretary Moniz says Obama is not waging war on coal
Ernest Moniz insists that fossil fuels, including coal, will remain a significant part of America's energy mix for quite some time.
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Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments
Monsanto and other agro-giants use Hawaii as a testing ground for GMO crops and accompanying agricultural chemicals. Local lawmakers are trying to rein them in.
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Follow live tweets from the world’s first tweeting honey badger
Honey badger just don't care ... about anything except live-tweeting from the Johannesburg Zoo.
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“Catastrophic failure”: Adventures in car sharing, part 2
Turns out that, as a business proposition, the sharing economy can be a pretty risky one.
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Now you can help expand Google Maps, by lugging a weird heavy camera around for free
You never seem to have enough luggage when you're climbing the Himalayas. Now you could haul a camera for a massive corporation for no compensation whatsoever!
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BART strikes at the heart of a region’s planning problems
The strike has affected about 400,000 area commuters, but it hasn't paralyzed the Bay Area -- because everyone here loves their cars.
