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Seed savers: Vandana Shiva and female farmers stand up to Monsanto
Perennial Plate talks to Vandana Shiva about her seed-saving revolution and the future of farming in rural India.
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Raccoons occupy a crane in Seattle
Some Bay Area raccoons moved into a crane. They got chased out. Coming soon to a garbage can near you.
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Kids concentrate better when they bike to school
Here's a really good argument for improving bike infrastructure.
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Ask Umbra: Is my wife’s hair dye hazardous to her health?
A reader is dying to know if his wife’s hair coloring is hurting her. Umbra highlights some of the concerns.
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Beer brewers are joining forces to fight fracking
New York craft breweries are worried that fracking could pollute their water and threaten beer production -- so they're speaking out.
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Lessons from the women who are leading the sustainable cities movement
Grist’s assistant editor, Darby Minow Smith, looks back at more than a dozen interviews with urban sustainability directors and reflects on what they -- and all of you -- taught her.
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The oldest known wild bird, a 62-year-old albatross, just hatched a miracle baby
A really old albatross had a baby. She will soon be walking around Park Slope with a stroller, looking exhausted.
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Eve Ensler connects the dots between violence against women and violence against the planet
The creator of "The Vagina Monologues" wants you to dance to fight violence against women -- and she wants to rein in fossil fuel companies too.
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Bike bans declared unconstitutional in Colorado, introduced in Missouri
A biking ban in a Colorado town was struck down by the state's Supreme Court. Meanwhile, a Missouri legislator wants to ban bikes from state highways.
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Want to fight climate change? Don’t work so hard
Get lazy, folks! Working fewer hours could make a significant dent in climate-warming emissions.