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Featured Friend: Grace Chen
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next level? Just donate any amount to join the fun. Grace Chen “Stylin’ in my Grist Friends with Benefits T-shirt is a gentle reminder to be green. Grist […]
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Blogs put bikes on a path to world domination
The revolution won't be televised. Instead, we'll turn to the grassroots bicycle media to see the bright future of the sport take shape.
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In its previous life, this corner grocery was a shipping container
Mobile food deliveries bring fresh, healthy produce to food deserts. But to really change a neighborhood's access to food, a small store with big ideas learns you have to take the wheels off.
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Over 100,000 Americans work in solar industry
The GOP makes no effort to hide its opposition to clean energy. But the solar industry far outpaces the growth rate of the overall U.S. economy.
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Here's what we can do with all the tires after the carpocalypse
In the post-peak-oil, post-automotive world, we'll have to do something while we're huddled around our campfires in Bartertown. And we'll need to do something with the parts of our now-useless vehicles. Sure, we'll have to build shelters with the metal carapaces, and we'll need some of that tire rubber for shoes and things. But there […]
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Why Walmart's money helps more than it hurts
Growing Power's Will Allen should take Walmart's million-dollar gift and do great things with it. But that doesn't mean the fight against Walmart can't or won't continue.
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Fukushima farmers keep calm and carry on [VIDEO]
It's harvest time in Fukushima, Japan, and many farmers in the area are still working the land despite worries of radioactive contamination.
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Energy genius wins MacArthur grant
Shwetak Patel is revolutionizing home energy use, and people are noticing. Patel was just awarded a MacArthur Fellowship -- affectionately known as a "genius award" -- for his work creating user-friendly ways for people to monitor and control their utilities consumption. In other words, this is what certified energy genius looks like.
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What Solyndra didn't teach us about clean energy and job creation
There are ways to advance clean energy development even as you create jobs in the short term, despite what pundits are saying after the Solyndra bankruptcy.
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Global warming makes Russia militarize the Arctic
There has not traditionally been a lot of military presence in the Arctic, given as how it's mostly ice and seals. But now that the ice is melting, it's just mostly seals, and those little buggers are shifty. So Russia is sending in the troops.
