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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What the red and blue map doesn’t show
This midterms season, remember that community leadership matters, too.
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Twice-cooked camas (or sunchoke)
This once prevalent root vegetable is being restored to the Pacific Northwest. Try another native plant, the sunchoke, for a similar cooking and nutritional experience.
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Peanut butter, banana, and cricket smoothie (dog-friendly!)
One way for you and your pets to enjoy removing animal meats from your diet.
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Pets eat a lot of meat. Insects could lower their carbon pawprint.
A Q&A with Anne Carlson, the founder and CEO of Jiminy’s, on bringing insect-based dog food to the U.S.
