Articles by Associate Editor Claire Elise Thompson
Claire Elise Thompson is an associate editor at Grist, and the writer of the weekly solutions newsletter, Looking Forward. She has been at Grist since 2018, focusing on telling stories about climate solutions and the people leading them. She was a 2022 MJ Bear fellow with the Online News Association and participated in the inaugural Climate Beacons Newsroom Initiative with the Solutions Journalism Network. She is based in Seattle.
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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts
Museums are reckoning with their own carbon footprints as they work to safeguard their collections from heat and storms.
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![Illustration of Tik and his wife admiring their induction stove]()
![Illustration of Tik and his wife admiring their induction stove]()
A journey into home electrification
Grist writer Tik Root documented his experiences updating his home with cleaner, more climate-friendly systems.
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Apple waste, spider silk, enhanced cotton: How bio-based textiles could replace plastic in our clothing
Biomaterials companies are using new materials to create high-performance textiles — without plastic.
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How this organizer is fighting the liquefied natural gas industry where she lives
The Biden administration's LNG pause won't affect projects planned in Brownsville, Texas. The community is still waging its own defense.
