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Limbaugh mocks food justice writer for being an educated single woman
Well, I have a new career goal: Get publicly mocked by Rush Limbaugh for winning too many awards. Food justice writer and occasional Grist contributor Tracie McMillan achieved that honor yesterday, and I’m sure she’s feeling duly chastened for having the temerity to write successful books while being a lady and unmarried and in various other ways not Rush Limbaugh. […]
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Clean air ad featuring asthmatic kids is dangerously adorable
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) did a really good job at tugging every heartstring available in this new ad: Seriously, how much do you want to cry now? Maybe they really should send asthmatic kids into Congress as lobbyists. NRDC and Sierra Club are doing the closest thing possible without […]
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Critical List: Too many tornadoes; scientists help plant seeds reach Antarctica
Super Tuesday results: The rich guy who would be terrible for the environment won primaries in six states, the scary evangelist who would be terrible for the environment won three, and the sad nerd who should know better but would probably be terrible for the environment just to fit in won one. March has already […]
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Hard to stomach: How a fresh clam feast got the best of me
After harvesting a bucketful of fresh clams from a local beach, our green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, learned something about the old saying, "Too much of a good thing …"
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No end in sight for the GOP’s holiday-from-reality primaries
As long as Mitt Romney fails to clinch his nomination, we'll be talking about all the wrong things.
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Gimme bomb shelter: FEMA pushes for disaster-proof green buildings
With more climate-induced catastrophes on the way, FEMA chief Craig Fugate calls for “no regrets” building measures like super-insulated walls and reflective roofs. The alternative isn’t pretty.
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Does Romney secretly support ‘climate-change controls’?
Some green-leaning Romney donors seem to think he'll flip-flop on climate action once he gets elected.
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Undead laws: ‘Ag-gag bills’ are back to keep factory farm abuse a secret
A look inside Iowa's just-passed bill, which would prohibit employees from taking jobs in concentrated animal feeding operations solely to document animal abuse.
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Meet the skyscrapers of the future: Band-Aids, balloon forests, and underwater spheres
This theoretical skyscraper, the winner of eVolo’s annual skyscraper design competition, would collect, purify, and store water in the Himalayas, helping to conserve and regulate it. It looks like a half pack of cigarettes in fancy holders, but it’s not even the weirdest-looking skyscraper, not by a long shot. Below are some of the strange […]
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Study: Woolly mammoths are extinct and it’s YOUR FAULT
There’s been some dispute in scientific circles about whether the woolly mammoths died out because of natural variations in climate, or because of the malign influence of roving bands of humans. Turns out it’s a little from column A, a little from column B — meaning that if we actually do manage to clone a […]
