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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.
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Grist List’s best animal videos of 2012
"Before the year draws to a close, let us stroll together through our memories of ducks, walruses, and scary emus."
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The Gaits iPhone app turns your steps on New York’s High Line into music
This app makes walking and standing into meditative musical experiences,
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H&M lets you turn in old clothes for new ones
You can bring your old clothes to H&M to get discounts on new clothes. You can bring them anything. Even if it's ugly and really old.
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Going, going, gonzo: A famously twisted mind tackles the extinction crisis with a wicked pen
Ralph Steadman, the illustrator who collaborated with gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, has a new book out about vanished species, both real and imagined.
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Energy conservation gets gamified
Businesses are using gamification to goad us into buying more junk. But some people are trying to harness online games for good causes.
