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A million and one ways (at least!) to simplify the holidays

We asked Grist readers for suggestions for how to rock the holidays without partaking of the shopping madness and materialism. Boy, did you deliver.

Greg Hanscom Culture December 18, 2012

Chickens raised in New York backyards lay polluted eggs

Which absolutely should not surprise you.

Philip Bump Cities October 8, 2012

Three reasons to have a cow over antibiotics in your meat

There's new evidence that antibiotics in livestock are impacting our health -- and there are new proposed laws to control them. Here's everything you need to know.

Tom Laskawy Food October 19, 2012

Drought-tolerant seeds: Insurance policy for farmers or a big gamble?

Companies like Monsanto and Syngenta want farmers to think of drought-tolerant seeds as an insurance policy against hot, dry weather. But for farmers who don't take care of the soil, these seeds look like a gamble.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture September 14, 2012

The road forward from cap-and-trade

After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda Skocpol suggests one way to proceed. It's not a very good one -- so here's an alternative.

David Roberts Climate & Energy January 16, 2013

Climate change: The elephant in the dining room

Food security expert David Lobell says climate change is already throwing our food systems for a loop. To survive the coming decades, he says, we’re going to need all the tools at our disposal.

Michael C. Osborne Food and Agriculture October 9, 2012