Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Check out this 100-year-old electric car
Electric cars are a modern new technology, so modern and unproven that many [Republicans] would say they couldn’t possibly be plausible. Except for how they’ve actually been around since the turn of the 20th century. This photo of an electric car charging (above, click to embiggen) is from 1909, and by that point the technology […]
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Read a prophetic Ray Bradbury story about car culture
Indelibly important science fiction author and giant of my childhood Ray Bradbury, who died last night, would probably never have described himself as writing about environmentalism — “A lot of lousy novels come from people who want to do good,” he said in an interview. But he did write about the relationship between humans and […]
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How to make a fold-out window garden
This garden design gives you three times as much growing space as a window box.
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The coolest images and video of the transit of Venus
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured terrific footage of Venus' path across the sun.