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By Janet Larsen When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s,...
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
Cheer up and stop being such a borax! Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, is here to turn the tide on homemade laundry soap.
Instead of “one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish,” we will now have “three-quarters fish and 1.5 fish, red fish, blue fish,” which just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Building a climate movement in urban areas isn't enough. We also need a ground game in the remote corners of swing states where national elections are won and lost.
For President Obama to come in and tell them and other Sandy victims that he cares more about the airline lobby than their well-being and the global climate would be an epic disappointment.
To "zero out" our emissions with clean energy, we'd have to replace all the dirty sources we use now -- and do it all over again in 40 years. In chapter 2 of "Carbon Zero," Alex Steffen explains why we need to rethink our whole relationship with energy.
Green groups invested in eight U.S. Senate races, and their preferred candidates won in seven of them. What does that tell us? It's complicated.
In an unflinching report, one of the planet’s largest financial institutions says we’re toast if we don’t slow climate change. So why is it funding dirty power plants?
