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You Like Us, You Really Like Us!
Grist wins Webby Award Aw, shucks! Y’all know we produce this magazine for completely selfless reasons, so far be it from us to flounce about indulging in unseemly celebration just because we WON A WEBBY AWARD, WOOOO-HOO! Ahem. Anyhoo, we won the People’s Choice award in the magazine category. You, our loyal readers, are the […]
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Pedi Cure
Pedicabs catching on in Germany Bicycle taxis, or pedicabs, have been thriving in Germany recently thanks to changes in national law, concerns about pollution and global warming, and a souped-up model dreamed up by former DaimlerChrysler project manager Ludger Matuszewski. The $9,000 German pedicabs — rented to operators for about $8 a day — are […]
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Out of Tuna
Bluefin tuna, unable to swim inside the lines, at risk of extinction Apparently western Atlantic bluefin tuna don’t understand the concept of fisheries quotas, and may soon face extinction because of it, marine scientists report in the journal Nature. Bluefin tuna can grow up to 10 feet in length and weigh 1,500 lbs., and, due […]
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Reservoir Hogs
Norton won’t reduce water releases from Lake Powell Following a year’s worth of unsuccessful negotiations between governors of seven parched Western states, Interior Secretary Gale Norton stepped in yesterday to make a decision on how to divvy up the much-coveted water of the Colorado River. A winter of heavy precipitation and subsequent spring thaws have […]
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Tit for Habitat
Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer kicks off a big three-day series on the increasingly ubiquitous but nonetheless poorly understood and poorly monitored phenomenon of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Congress authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to administer such plans in 1982, but it wasn’t until the late ’90s […]
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An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott
Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett. In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could “win” a nuclear war. A decade later, she had given up her promising medical career to devote her life to nothing short of saving the […]
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Iceland Is Your Land
Last chance to enter Iceland sweepstakes OK, some of you are sick of hearing about Iceland, but others of you are sitting on your hands, bouncing a little, like the kid who had to pee in math class but wasn’t allowed to get up. Because you are dying to know if you’re going to win […]
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Talkin’ Bout Microgeneration
Microgeneration may energize future With an energy crisis looming and national governments slow to adopt clean, renewable sources, some small communities are creating their own solutions — and their own energy. Case in point: Beddington Zero Energy Development in South London (BedZED for short), a carbon-neutral sustainable-housing estate employing “microgeneration,” or small-scale, local, renewable power […]
