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A low-cost way to improve public transit: Add joy
Can transit incorporate art? Yes! How about playground equipment? You bet. Even … sex? Oh yeah, baby.
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Ask Umbra: Where’s the best place to ride out climate change?
A reader asks where she should move to be best positioned for the coming eco-apocalypse. Umbra gives her a realty check.
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E. O. Wilson wants to know why you’re not protesting in the streets
Edward O. Wilson dropped by the Grist office recently and asked why young people aren't out protesting the mess that’s being made of the planet. Help us come up with a good answer.
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Rising tide: Norfolk, Va., struggles on the front lines of sea-level rise [VIDEO]
A city on the front lines of sea-level rise wonders how long it can keep the Atlantic Ocean at bay.
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Getting your goat in Louisville [VIDEO]
Join the Perennial Plate crew as they visit an urban goat herder in Louisville, Ky.
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Southwestern tribes lead three-day march to move beyond coal
I want to share a story with you about an amazing event that took place this past Earth Day. For three days, in 100+ degree heat, Native Americans led a50-mile march to draw attention to the devastating effects of coal pollution on their community The Sierra Club was proud to support the Moapa Band of […]
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Friday music blogging: The Lumineers
I have been seriously slacking on the Friday Music Blogging lately! I plead excess travel. And apologize to the ones and ones of FMB fans out there. Anyway, back to it. As I’ve said before, fans of beardy music are in hog heaven these days. There is a full-fledged beardy renaissance happening. I’m not sure […]
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Colbert mocks group that blames immigrants for climate change
"It's always an immigrant who's cutting my grass with an exhaust-spewing lawnmower," says Stephen Colbert as he rips apart ads that criticize immigrants for increasing their carbon footprints.
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We’re half-assing the clean-energy transition
We're not moving fast enough to fight off catastrophic climate change, according to a new report from the IEA. What will it cost to really get going? A good chunk in the short term and negative dollars in the long term.
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Mosquitoes fingered for killer whale deaths at SeaWorld
It’s hard to imagine a teensy mosquito taking down an animal as mighty as the killer whale. Yet that’s exactly what some folks suspect happened at two SeaWorld locations. Representatives from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) say that orcas that died at SeaWorld parks in Orlando and San Antonio succumbed to encephalitis, a virus transmitted […]
