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Our third annual list of the year’s goodies, oddities, and inanities
It’s Earth Day time once again, and we are delighted to present the Third-Ever List of Grist Superlatives — our take on the good, the bad, and the weird of the past year. Think we missed something? Add your cleverest contributions in comments below. (And check out our lists for 2007 and 2006.) Our sweet […]
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Snippets from the news
• Crocodile attacks illegal logger. • Oakland cannot go forward with a plastic-bag ban until it reviews the environmental effect of paper bags. • Hybrids are a tough sell in China. • We can reduce carbon on the cheap, says Environmental Defense Fund. • Anchorage mayor will try to topple 40-year Sen. Ted Stevens.
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PETA offers $1 million for commercially viable test-tube meat
PETA thinks the idea of test-tube meat looks like a million bucks. Literally. The outspoken animal-rights group is offering a cool one mil to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” The idea caused “a near civil war in […]
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Gigantic hydropower dam planned for Congo River
Some of the world’s largest banks and construction firms gathered with seven African governments Monday to chat about plans for an $80 billion hydroelectric dam on the Congo River. The proposed Grand Inga dam could generate twice the electricity of China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam and greatly increase the amount of cheap and clean power […]
