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Grist needs a T-shirt slogan
Dearest readers, help us come up with a slogan for our 2011 T-shirt! Comment on this post with your wittiest suggestions. The Grist staff will select our two favorite slogans and then, you, our beloved audience, will vote on the winner. The author of the winning slogan will receive eternal fame and glory as well as a free T-shirt!
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Obama's riding the (cellulosic) ethanol pony — here's why he should buck the trend
Like countless politicians before him, Obama is striving to shore up his political support in the Midwest by dangling goodies for the ethanol industry. This time, though, it's cellulosic ethanol -- which, I argue, isn't nearly as ecologically benign as advertised.
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What a 'sweet surprise'! HFCS contains more fructose than believed
A new study shows that assumptions about fructose/glucose ratios in high-fructose corn syrup have been way off. And since fructose is demonstrably worse for us than glucose, this could explain a lot.
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Art Pope's millions fund climate change denial
An investigation by Facing South finds that the Koch brothers, have a valuable ally in North Carolina: conservative benefactor Art Pope.
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Birth Control will not stop climate change
Cross posted from Biodiversivist …but it sure could help. From a study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …reducing peak population to roughly 8 billion, for example, could save 29 percent of expected greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, if people are allowed to retire at a reasonable age (there is […]
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With school-lunch reform on the rocks, it may be time to invest in 'smart cafeterias'
With Congress unable to pass meaningful school lunch reform, researchers are suggesting that simple changes to the lunchroom -- as easy as placing apples in a basket -- could have big effects.
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Most products claiming to be green are living in sin
A new survey shows that greenwashing is as rampant as ever--more than 95 percent of the products analyzed weren't as green as they said they were.
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On attacking climate and energy in 'chunks'
President Obama is going to address climate change in "chunks" rather than in one comprehensive bill. Everyone seems to agree on that much. But what does that mean, exactly?
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A report from the front lines of the "transit space race" [VIDEO]
These are heady times for sustainable transportation advocates, as you can see in this video report from the recent Rail~Volution conference.
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Hitting the Big Apple's food-justice buffet
New York City is jam-packed with urban farms, community gardens, and food-justice projects. Not all of them are what they seem, I've discovered, but one has stolen my heart.
