Articles by Claire Thompson
Claire Thompson used to be Grist's editorial assistant. After disappearing into the wild for a while, she is now attempting to reenter society.
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Milk Not Jails: Building a new urban-rural alliance in New York
A New York grassroots campaign called Milk Not Jails sees supporting small dairy farms -- not building more prisons -- as a path to rural and urban renewal alike.
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Beyond hugging trees: Russian forest activist puts her life on the line, inspires democracy movement
Evgenia Chirikova won a Goldman Environmental Prize for her crusade to stop an illegal road through a preserved forest outside Moscow. Her work has inspired activists all over Russia -- and now the world.
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Voracious readers: The first Food Book Fair will offer a little taste of everything
Are you a fan of books and food? You may want to make a sojourn to this event.
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More evidence links pesticides to honeybee losses
The science is stacking up. Three studies in the last three weeks have shown that exposure to a dangerous class of pesticides disorients and kills bees, reduces their hive sizes, and results in far fewer queens.
