awards
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Explain your latest award nomination, Grist
The Grist Explainers team gets a nod from the 2016 Online Journalism Awards.
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Car-crushing mayor wins an Ig Nobel prize
Remember Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, who ran over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane USING A TANK? He's just won an Ig Nobel prize, the coveted award for research (or, you know, a mayoral publicity stunt) that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.
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Climate refugees star in Oscar-nominated ‘Sun Come Up’ [VIDEO]
Photo: Sun Come Up If you’re tracking this year’s green Oscar nominees, another one to watch is Sun Come Up — which could really be titled Water Come Up because it’s about rising sea levels. Filmmaker Jennifer Redfearn tells the story of climate refugees in Papua New Guinea. All 3,000 residents of the Carteret Pacific […]
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How green are the Oscar nominees?
We take a look at the nominees for this year's Academy Awards: Who's the greenest of them all?
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10 enviro achievers honored with Heinz Awards
The 10 winners of this year's Heinz Awards work in a variety of disciplines, but they're all tackling the big environmental challenges of our times.
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Love your mother: Vote for Grist’s MILF video in the Telly Awards
Remember last year when Grist said, Screw Earth Day? (What with every day being Earth Day, yadda yadda yadda.) Well, our fine and funny MILF video celebrating, er, loving your mother the right and wrong way, has been nominated for a Telly Award, which honors the “very best in video, film, and commercials.” Thanks, Telly, […]
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Obama’s Nobel: What it means for greens
Dip a toe into the Nobel Peace Prize news and next thing you’re drowning in commentary. Here’s an attempt to distill what it means for greens, by which I mean the types of people who rely on air, water, soil, and other naturey elements. Obama’s nuclear disarmament work won him the award. A member of […]
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Cleantech Open has $100,000 for a green startup idea
Corrections below The Cleantech Open has helped more than 100 startup companies find their footing since it launched in California three years ago. Now the business competition is expanding in some interesting ways. Earlier this year it added regional events in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains. This fall it also launched a global “ideas […]
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Wow: the Heinz Award (or, hands off my mic, Kanye!)
As a journalist, I feel like I should have some clever and creative lead for this piece. But I keep coming back to the tried and true: It is such an honor to receive the Heinz Award. It’s an honor to be recognized by Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation. It’s an honor to […]