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  • China is leaving the U.S. in the dust as it surges ahead on clean energy

    Even as China overtakes the U.S. in the dubious category of “world’s leading greenhouse gas producer,” it is also well ahead of the U.S. in developing the technologies and policies to solve the problem — and selling those solutions to us at massive profits which could have been ours. On a recent trip, I saw […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Plastic bags are the enemy of the ocean

    Courtesy Save the BayListen up all you Gristers who live along the California coast: This Saturday is Coastal Cleanup Day. Join your friends, neighbors, frenemies and complete strangers in a community-wide effort to get the plastic crap out of the ocean. Plastic isn’t just a problem way out in the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch. For […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Obama talks green to GM workers

    President Barack Obama put a green spin on Tuesday’s address to autoworkers at the GM assembly plant in Warren, Ohio. The president sounded confident that the rescued, retooled, reinvented, more or less government-owned GM would be “good for American workers, good for American manufacturing, and good for America’s economy.” And it may just be a […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Grist founder honored with 2009 Heinz Award

    What do you get for the best eco-boss ever? A stainless steel water bottle? A bike repair kit? A share of a local farm CSA? The Grist staff was thinking those would all be great gifts for beloved founder Chip Giller. Then we found out that the Heinz Family Foundation is honoring him with one […]

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