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Conserving while preserving: Energy and food storage
I've been canning, freezing, and dehydrating summer's bounty to enjoy in winter. But it bothers me that all these methods use substantial amounts of electricity. Readers, help me out?
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A chat with New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza about climate in the Senate
This month, The New Yorker ran an extraordinary 10,000-word piece by reporter Ryan Lizza detailing the climate bill's slow and inglorious failure in the U.S. Senate. It was a feat of inside reporting, meaty enough to support dozens of follow-on posts dissecting and illuminating it. I'm very pleased to report that Lizza will be stopping by for a chat with Grist readers and me TODAY at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific.
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Sorry, New York Times: The bee die-off case is not closed
The New York Times recently declared the case of Colony Collapse Disorder, the great bee die-off, "solved." But the reporting hyped the science and left out important conflicts involving the lead scientist.
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Coping with Coal Ash's Health Effects
This is the latest in our series of community coal ash profiles. This piece was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Lydia Avila. The community of Joliet, Illinois, identifies as many things – Midwestern, humble, and hard-working. Yet they also identify with something much less positive: being collateral damage. According to Joliet residents, they don’t even […]
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Why we need to change the way we spend on transportation
We've been doing transportation planning wrong for generations. And our economy is paying for it.
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Groups with ties to Karl Rove break fundraising goals, push money to party of climate zombies
Money from secret donors is pouring into conservative groups and they're planning to use it to put out even more attack ads in the weeks ahead.
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Tar-sands bathrooms are eco-friendly, which makes up for all that other stuff
Sorry, marketers, it's going to take more than biodegradable shampoo bottles and "Lakefront Property" signs to clean up the Alberta oil sands.
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A green guide to getting along for parents and the childfree
In the interests of fostering camaraderie between green-minded parents and childfree people, here are some cross-cultural communication tips.
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China Clean Energy Development in Action: Seeing the Coda-Lishen Battery Plant in Person
While I was at the climate negotiations in Tianjin, China I had the chance to take a side trip to see clean energy development in action. A group of us went to the Coda-Lishen battery plant. After days of climate negotiations where countries talked about efforts to deploy clean energy and reduce global warming pollution, […]
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Can your toilet flush 20 golf balls? [VIDEO]
Will it blend? If you can blend golf balls (or an iPad), then the next logical question is, of course, will they flush? Take a look at this ridiculous promotional video for a water-saving toilet.
