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Peer-to-peer bike share Liquid is like AirBnB for bicycles
Just search nearby for a friendly bike owner who's willing to rent out her bike for a few bucks an hour, and you're off and pedaling.
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Thanks for nothing: A post-holiday report from Grist’s Grinch
Our maverick dad set out to create a magical holiday for his family without buying them presents. Santa proved unstoppable, but he still claims victory.
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Here is an elephant who thinks it’s an ostrich
It's OK, baby ostriphant, you will figure all this shit out eventually.
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These teeny, sparkly sequins are actually functional solar cells
They're just as efficient as normal solar cells, all while using one hundredth of the material that normal solar cells would.
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Western Antarctica is warming three times faster than the rest of the world
You'll forgive the region's ice if it's starting to look a little nervous.
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Sand sculpture of 500 Santa Clauses has an environmental message, somehow
Sculptor Sudarsan Pattnaik and thirty of his students carved 500 Santa Clauses (and one Jesus) into a beach in Puri, India.
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New Agtivist: Rebecca Thistlethwaite knows how to spot farms with a future
After a year spent traveling the nation, this farmer and author of a new farming guidebook understands what it takes to beat the odds.
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Grist List’s best bike stories of 2012
From a bike made out of cardboard to one that sounds like a horse, here are some of the year's most popular tales of two wheels.
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Grist List’s best weird creatures of 2012
Just as good needs evil, and light needs darkness, and Mars needs women, cute animals would be nothing without weird, sorta ugly animals.
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Grist List’s best genius kids of 2012
You guys sure love precocious kids. Here are your favorites from the last year.
