Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Haley Barbour pins the BP oil spill on a sad bird
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour thinks the disastrous economic effects of the Gulf oil spill were the fault of BP, where “BP” stands for “brown pelican”: So people saw on TV the same brown pelican coated with looked like 3 inches of oil, I mean, looked like a chocolate pelican. And they showed it every hour, […]
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Let’s point and laugh at the United States’ weeny little pollution taxes
Awwwwww, look at the teeny little bar graph representing U.S. pollution taxes! I bet everybody tells the U.S. it's "average," but it's clearly not. Don't worry, America; it's not how big it is, it's what you do with it! And we … use it to fund wars, I guess?
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Watch a ridiculously adorable kid encourage the world to ride a bike
This kid just learned to ride a bike, and it made him feel happy of himself! You can do it too! He knows you can believe in yourself!
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MyConservationPark is a Facebook game that’s actually good for something
MyConservationPark is a Farmville-style Facebook game that lets you administer a nature preserve, juggling animals, plants, structures, and people to protect the habitat of endangered wildlife. But this isn't just a whole new way to annoy your Facebook friends with environmentalism; it also makes a difference in the real world. Fifteen percent of any in-game […]
