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The biggest news story of our dystopian future
Ruben Bolling’s latest “Tom the Dancing Bug” strip envisions the newsreel of a climate-changed future. Here’s a teaser: The rest is after the jump (click to embiggen).
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Welcome to Grist’s new home page
We just pulled the (biodegradable) wrap off our new home page design here at Grist. Come on in! Tell us what you think.
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Here is everything people have written about sustainability at the Olympics
In no particular order, and, despite the headline, certainly not everything: The Olympic Games’ official sustainability site! How organizers plan to make the Games green! The top six green buildings at the Olympics! How the Games precipitated a green building boom! A U.N. guy, giving the London Games props! Action Sustainability, taking said props away! […]
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Black Lung: Coal’s Dirty Politics
Reading and listening to the recent NPR, Center for Public Integrity, and Charleston Gazette articles about the rise in black lung cases for coal miners saddens and angers me. Like many, I had — mistakenly, it turns out — assumed that black lung was declining, thanks to the efforts of leaders like West Virginia Senator […]
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What to expect when you’re expecting more drought (black widows!)
Bugs, expensive food, ruined highways. The future is not looking great.
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At least 70 percent of Arctic ice loss is due to climate change
And perhaps as much as 95 percent, according to a new computer model.
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Better than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie
It’s all the rage lately to deliver food in edible packaging, because if you eat the container, there’s no waste to dispose of — no paper coffee cup, no plastic wrapper that ends up in the ocean. While tomato-basil membranes sound intriguing, if not exactly appetizing, here’s an idea for an edible container that pretty […]
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Robots could make solar power super cheap
It’s a simple enough robot: an ATV equipped with a robotic arm and few cameras. But it’s already stealing green jobs from humans. Its suction cups grab onto the glass face of huge, power-plant-grade solar panels and lift them onto a metal frame. One robot, with three human helpers, can install a field of solar […]
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Good news for ExxonMobil investors!
The company made more in one hour over the last three months than three average college grads will make in their lifetimes.
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This mobile restaurant brings the table to the farm
This mobile-home-as-restaurant might have won the war for most local food ever. Instead of bringing the farm to the table, the Buijtenkitchen is bringing the table to the farm. It’s basically just a hut with a wood-burning stove inside, but it’s small enough that it can be loaded onto a trailer and moved without much […]
