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Try this at home: The joys of DIY laundry detergent
Cheer up and stop being such a borax! Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, is here to turn the tide on homemade laundry soap.
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‘Want to save the planet? Save people,’ says conservation bigwig
Peter Seligmann, CEO of Conservation International, one of the largest conservation groups on the planet, explains why he decided to dump biodiversity and focus instead on humans.
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Obama administration slaps higher tariffs on Chinese solar panels
A trade skirmish over solar panels has pitted the U.S. against China, and divided the American solar industry, and become an election issue.
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So long, warmest April-to-September in American history!
And hello warmest year-to-date ever! Though melting Arctic ice means that the winter might make up for all of that heat.
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Thoughts on economic growth and energy slaves
Increased access to energy seems responsible for much of the economic growth of the last two centuries. That raises an unsettling question about future growth.
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Animals are just as depressed as you are
Why are animals depressed when they can't have any idea that their lives suck? No one knows. They just are.
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Asshole coal boss: ‘I’m not an asshole’
Yes, it's big coal CEO Robert Murray again. Because he is consistently amusing.
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Yet another reason birds are weird: They like to bathe in ants
For you, that might be a flashback to an acid trip. For birds, it’s … well, it almost definitely feels good.
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Amtrak ridership up as icy hand of budgetary death stays its touch yet again
More Americans than ever are riding Amtrak, a 49 percent increase over 2000.
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Farming the urban sea
In Long Island Sound, just outside New York City, new aquaculture projects promise to clean the water while raising low-input sustainable seafood in vertical underwater gardens.
