Climate Culture
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Pick up trash, find an octopus!
Who killed this octopus near the apex of England's highest mountain? And WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
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Meet the new stupidest Kickstarter: A six-foot-tall cup of bubble tea
320 gallons of bubble tea! Time to cash out your 401k!
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Women take back the farm, and Grist takes to the airwaves
Grist contributor Lori Rotenberk talks about female farmers on WNYC, and takes a call from a “farmer’s husband.”
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This thriller set in wastewater treatment plant sounds awesome
What's scary about watery old poo? Turns out, EVERYTHING.
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This online dashboard shows you a city’s water and electric usage in real time
Normally, all this happens in secret. But, in a bid to help educate citizens about the resources they use, the city of Oberlin, Ohio, is showing and telling.
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This San Francisco dump pays artists to play with its trash
The company picks artists who use recycled materials in their art, gives them a monthly stipend, a studio space -- naturally, it's a shipping container -- and "scavenging privileges".
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French are pissed we banned their “filthy, putrid” cheese
Someone please let this adorable cheese out of jail!
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Spooky sculptures put illegally felled trees back together again
These sculptures are deliberately uncanny, because they're sort of like undead neck-bolted Frankenstein's Monster trees.
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This is an unusually good bit of penguin slapstick
We're just going to watch this 3,000 times in a row.
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This guy is saving forests using cloning
Cloning: a great idea for Ryan Gosling, but old-growth trees? Conservationist David Milarch thinks so.