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Climate change could make Mt. Everest impossible to climb
If you’ve got “summit Everest” on your bucket list, better get started now. Apa Sherpa (aka “Super Sherpa”), who’s summited Mt. Everest 21 times, tells Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the trip up the mountain is getting increasingly dangerous as climate change sets in. As Himalayan glaciers melt, bare rock — slippery, treacherous, more prone to […]
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Newt’s new energy slogan doubles down on the crazy
It's not clear who Newt Gingrich thinks he's fooling, but over the weekend his team unveiled this nifty new graphic on which he apparently plans to hang the entirety of his comeback for the GOP nomination.
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DOE-funded battery breakthrough to halve cost, triple range
A new breakthrough from California-based Envia Systems will yield lithium-ion batteries that are less than half the cost of current cells, while also having three times the energy density.
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New blog design today on grist.org, plus a nerdy rant about iterative design — with diagrams!
Today we're introducing the first iteration of a new blog design on Grist.org
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Infographic: The idea of a climate change hoax makes no $)%*@ sense
Here's a graphical representation of why the idea of a vast worldwide climate conspiracy is just silly.
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How to turn an abandoned oil silo into an awesome sustainable home
Once we either kick oil for good or descend into Mad Maxish fuel-based anarchy, you’re going to want to set up a pretty good personal Thunderdome. And if we’re way past peak oil anyway, why not nest in an abandoned oil silo? Architecture collective Pink Cloud has designed a sustainable home for a post-petroleum world, […]
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Critical List: BP spill liability trial delayed; Meryl Streep’s eco-friendly Oscar dress
BP’s trial for Deepwater Horizon liability has been pushed back one week as the company considers a $14 billion settlement. Scientist Peter Gleick is taking a leave of absence from the Pacific Institute after the organization’s board of directors expressed concern about the methods he used to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute. Meryl […]
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Dr. Vandana Shiva: Occupy our food supply!
From seeds, to corporate farms, to giant mega-retailers -- one of the world's preeminent speakers on biodiversity pontificates on the corporatization of our food supply.
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Photo project takes commuters to a California they’ve forgotten
With her new documentary project, author and photographer Lisa Hamilton hopes to reacquaint urban train riders with rural life.
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A mission for the next generation: Fix suburbia
We’ve spent 50 years subsidizing sprawling suburban development. Now we need to rethink and reimagine, says architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones. The good news? It has already begun.
