Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Infographic: The top toxic health hazards
We figured this depressing Scientific American article about the top 10 pollution-related health hazards deserved the Onion-style infographic treatment. Here are the actual numbers for how many people are being sickened or killed by toxic pollution worldwide: Mercury pollution from gold mining (3.5 million people) Lead pollution from industrial parks (nearly 3 million) Pesticides from […]
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Watch Rick Perry forget that the Department of Energy even exists
Energy. The word you're looking for is energy. Not a big priority, maybe?
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Pasadena gets to keep its giant fork
This piece of guerilla art was originally put up as a joke — Pasadena, Calif. resident Bob Stane made a lot of corny jokes about putting a fork in the road at this fork in the road, so his friend made him an 18-foot-tall one for his 75th birthday. It wasn't technically legal (the fork's […]
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Study: We have five years to stop climate change, or it will be too late
According to a comprehensive analysis by the International Energy Agency, the point of no return on climate change is fast approaching. Either we halt it in five years, or … well, imagine I'm drawing my finger across my throat while making a "kkkkkhhhhhh" sound. Basically, any fossil fuel infrastructure that goes up in the next […]
