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  • The Choice of a New Generator

    Dirty diesel generators proliferate in developing countries The good news: Access to electricity is spreading to previously unserved areas, allowing residents of rural villages to grow more crops with electrically powered irrigation pumps and connect to the rest of the world through television. The bad news: The most common power source for these communities is […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Warming seas beget dying fish, GM unveils plug-in hybrid, and more

    Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Better Not, Pout Happy Feat It’s All Sarovar Their Day in Cote Mercury Retrograde Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: One Nation, Under Terry Step It Up A Sight for Soar Eyes Everything Auld is New Again Matching Wits

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  • John Amos, eco-geographer and head of nonprofit SkyTruth, answers questions

    John Amos. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I’m president of SkyTruth, a nonprofit I founded in 2001. What does your organization do? SkyTruth puts into practice that old cliché, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” We use photos of the earth taken from orbiting satellites and airplanes to help people see — […]

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  • Happy Feat

    GM unveils plug-in hybrid at Detroit car show, sticks out tongue at greens The media got a peek at Detroit’s North American International Auto Show yesterday, and manufacturers had a surprise in store: cars so green they could play hide-and-seek in a cornfield. The biggest buzz surrounded the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid from General […]

    Grist staff Technology