Articles by Sarah Laskow

Sarah Laskow is a reporter based in New York City who covers environment, energy, and sustainability issues, among other things.

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  • New York subway
    New York subway

    4 out of 5 top transit cities are on the East Coast

    Walk Score put together a list of the country’s top transit cities, based on the company’s transit scores for more 1 million locations in the largest 25 cities with open public transit data. (Lack of data meant Atlanta and Phoenix were left out.) And, surprisingly, four out of the top five are on the East […]

    Sarah Laskow Buildings

  • Hungry bacteria help make bugs resistant to pesticides

    Use pesticides on a field for long enough and the bugs that you’re supposed to be defeating will adapt. But you know what adapts faster than bugs? Bacteria. They can run through multiple generations in a day or so, and a new study shows that when bugs team up with a certain pesticide-loving bacteria, the […]

    Sarah Laskow Agriculture

  • Creepy video: Enviros HATE AMERICA

    Conservatives really do see environmentalists as the enemy: This insinuating, creepy video has 1 million hits on YouTube, because everyone knows that environmentalists HATE AMERICA. It’s actually too painful to watch, so if you didn’t make it through the whole thing, know that this is what environmentalists are guilty of: 

    Sarah Laskow Politics

  • Critical List: A blueprint for a ‘bioeconomy’; urban chicken retirement

    The Obama administration is going to release a blueprint for a “bioeconomy” — an idea that includes renewable energy and biological manufacturing. Here is what conservatives think about energy and the environment, for real. Apparently environmentalists want America to suffer, to follow not lead … TO FAIL. Watch this video to get angry. China’s reaching […]

    Sarah Laskow