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If life gives you invasive pythons, make handbags

Florida state officials have been looking for a way to monetize their python problem, and New Yorker fashion designers have a solution.

Sarah Laskow Culture

Energy CEO: Solar should break up with wind, date natural gas, have distributed babies

David Crane of NRG, a supporter of distributed energy, thinks wind and solar will part ways because wind needs transmission and distributed solar doesn't.

David Roberts Technology

The smart money is on renewable energy

Fossil fuel cheerleaders take note: Clean energy ain't going nowhere -- and it may prove to be the better bet in the long run.

Tim McDonnell Technology

Are you happier than other Grist readers? Take this survey to find out

Our obsession with GDP is taking a heavy toll on our health, social connections, leisure time, and the environment. It's time for a new focus: happiness.

John de Graaf & Laura Musikanski Culture

EPA bashes State Department’s ‘insufficient’ Keystone report

The EPA says State still hasn't done its homework on the Keystone XL pipeline's potential environmental effects.

Lisa Hymas Climate & Energy

Here’s how you celebrated Earth Day

From moss walls to local picnics to highway cleanups, check out what your fellow readers got up to on this fine Earth Day.

Grist staff Culture

The worst part about BP’s oil-spill cover-up: It worked

Here's what BP doesn't want you to know about the use of Corexit after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.

Mark Hertsgaard Technology

Facebook’s new roof is greener, more expensive than yours

Facebook is putting an amazing green roof on its new building in Menlo Park. It's going to be big and elaborate. You can only see it if you get a job at Facebook.

Sarah Miller Technology

Most Protestant pastors don’t think climate change is real

Only 43 percent believe global warming is happening and human-caused, a new survey finds. Democratic pastors are far more likely to get it than Republicans.

John Upton Culture

Someone is wrong on the internet, and it’s Google’s Earth Day doodle

We like celebrating Earth. But it turns out that Google has created a weird alternative planet that has a sun, a moon, four seasons, and prairie dogs but could not possibly be Earth.