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Screw Cadbury, make your own creamy chocolate Easter eggs
Mass-manufactured chocolate Easter eggs are terrible for the environment. Here's how to make them from scratch.
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Strawberries should not be growing in the Arctic Circle, and yet here they are
Greenland is not farm country. But the climate here is changing fast enough that chefs and farmers are finding that they can grow produce they never dreamed of before.
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Google Maps-inspired film portrays cities as oil-addicted monsters
Director Patrick Jean combined map data and animation for this short film, which shows an American city called Motorville going in search of the oil that gives it life.
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Soon, you’ll be able to use New York’s pay phones to call the year 1993
A new use for the 5,000 useless pay phones in NYC: You can use them to hear recorded messages about what life was like in NYC when people actually used them.
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Cape Wind wins billions in backing, launches offshore wind in the U.S.
With $2 billion of funding committed, the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound looks like it will be the first offshore wind farm in the country. It certainly won't be the last.
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Climate change is killing the corn cob pipe
Higher temperatures and drought are hurting the quality of corn cobs and causing trouble for the country's last corn cob pipe producer.
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Do trees fight crime in Philadelphia?
More greenery is linked to lower crime rates, a new study finds.
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Writer and local-living maestra Christie Aschwanden chats live with Grist readers
Aschwanden spent a year connecting to her "local habitat" and discovered that it was not only better for the planet -- it was better for her, too.
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Green labels on candy bars are designed to trick you
New research backs up what candy pushers already know: Printing the nutritional info for candy bars on green backgrounds makes the candy appear more healthful.
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Here’s what 2,000 calories really looks like
What does 2,000 calories look like? It looks like 285 almonds ... or 16 bananas ... or seven bagels ... or two and a half Cinnabons.
