Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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In Copenhagen, you can check bikes out from the bicycle library
We love a good bike share, but you have to admit that the bikes all look the same. Meanwhile, people’s bicycle preferences and needs are as varied as … well, as their taste in books. Which is why Copenhagen, always first with the bike innovations, lets you borrow bikes from the bicycle library.
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Bike helmets looked ridiculous in 1948
Did you know that bike helmets in the 1940s looked kind of like a cross between a Devo outfit and a bouncy castle?
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Stunning map shows 11 years of U.S. wildfires
This map by John Nelson shows all major U.S. wildfires (and probably some prescribed fires) since 2001, with yellow being more intense. That bright purple over most of the country except the lucky Northeast is fires that put out maybe half as much energy as a power plant produces in the course of a year. […]
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These fruit-shaped bus shelters make public transit more delicious
Waiting for a bus is never the most fun part of a commute, but if you lived in Isahaya City, Japan, you could at least pretend you were some kind of magic bus-riding mouse in a fairy tale. Bus shelters in the city are sculpted and painted to look like giant fruit.