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‘I, Party Cup’: Help Grist make a crazy documentary
Who made the red party cup such a ubiquitous part of our disposable world -- and why'd they do it? Grist needs your help to fund this crazy documentary.
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One more way your plane flights are killing everybody
Remember when cars used to give off disgusting clouds of lead-laden smoke? Planes still do that. Some of them do, at least — in particular, those nasty little planes that rich people fly because car traffic is for suckers. According to Scientific American, smaller planes now produce HALF of all the lead pollution in the […]
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Ask Umbra: Why do bike tires suck?
A reader asks why he’s always pumping up his bike tires. Umbra’s answer is absolutely airtight.
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Urban naturalist: Molly Steinwald challenges city kids to find the wilderness in a sidewalk crack
City kids are often taught that nature is “out there,” beyond the city limits, but this biologist/photographer/educator says “everyday nature” has the power to transform.
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Umbra’s second helpings: The most sustainable forms of birth control
Birth control shouldn't be controversial. But could it be greener? Umbra pulls out an answer.
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Guess what’s coming to dinner? The unprocessed food challenge continues
Having sworn off of hot dogs and Doritos, Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, sets out to a backyard barbecue at a friend’s house. Her mission: to pass on the processed foods without coming off as a jerk.
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Wondering which condoms to buy? Science has the answer
Debby Herbenick knows how you feel about condoms. You know you need them, but you just want to go into the drugstore, get them, and get the hell out of there. (This is basically why they invented those self-service checkout things: As embarrassing as it is to buy condoms, imagine being the person on the […]
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Vintage ads want you to eat vitamin donuts, put babies in cellophane, and spray everything with DDT
We don't think anything from our time period, besides possibly the Double Down, will cause as much consternation in the future as these vintage ads do now.
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Meet Heartland, a just-discovered virus that landed two men in the hospital
It's actually not as big a deal as it sounds. But that won't stop us from going a little Hollywood.
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Heart of glass: Has nature healed a California beach, or does that just make us feel better about our trash?
On the Northern California coastline, the ocean is swallowing up a former garbage dump -- a sign of Mother Nature’s power, sure, and a reminder of our wasteful ways.
