Articles by Grist staff

Pace: the Final Frontier

Engineers hope to harvest human energy Scientists and engineers are looking to make use of human-powered energy. Don’t worry, they don’t want to hook you up to electrodes; the means of capturing the energy may be as unobtrusive as a matrix of pressure pads under sidewalks and floors. “When we walk along a pavement, eight […]

How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

A new series gives you the ammunition No matter how many times they are bludgeoned with informed rebuttals, the same skeptical arguments about climate change keep lurching back to life like zombies. It can get tiresome searching for the same counterarguments over and over again. A new series on Gristmill aims to put all those […]

Eco-friendly Fire

British arms manufacturer producing green weapons One of the world’s biggest arms manufacturers, British Aerospace, is investing heavily in eco-friendly weapons. Soldiers and civilians may now be blown up by a recyclable explosive, hit by a reduced-toxin rocket, or bombed by a fuel-efficient fighter jet. Biodegradable land mines and their victims both turn into compost […]

E.O. Wilson on religion and science, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Two’s Company, 300 Million’s a Crowd Ice Vice, Baby Hormones and Groans Go for Choke Did You Mean: Solar Power? Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: EOphilia Chemically Dependent When Guvs Try C’est Bon She’ll Tumble For Ya The Roach Approach