Articles by Jess Zimmerman

Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.

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  • Obama likes Keystone XL now

    Well, that was nice while it lasted. But despite the fact that domestic oil production doesn’t do a dicky bird to bring down gas prices, President Obama is now paying election-year lip service to the idea of, and I quote, “drilling all over the place.” And even more depressingly, he’s now saying that the southern […]

    Jess Zimmerman Energy

  • Tennessee passes anti-climate, anti-evolution ‘education’ bill

    The state legislature passed a bill saying that if "science" "teachers" don't personally believe in evolution or climate change, they're free to represent them to students as kooky conjecture.

    Jess Zimmerman Accountability

  • Plane commutes on the rise

    An increasing number of people are commuting to New York jobs from hundreds of miles away or even the other side of the country, according to WNYC’s Transportation Nation. There are about 4,000 regular plane commuters, accounting for more than 1,000 tons of carbon every week. Has nobody told these people about the internet?

    Jess Zimmerman Housing

  • A science experiment run by gnomes

    A company that makes scales for scientific use has demonstrated slight variations in Earth’s gravitational pull at the surface, in what may the first science experiment to use garden gnomes as instrumentation.

    Jess Zimmerman Culture