Grist List
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London’s new solar bridge is the largest in the world
It will provide half the energy to central London's Blackfriars train station.
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Coffeeshop “disloyalty program” rewards you for trying different cafes
It treats indie coffee shops as one interconnected community, instead of as competitors.
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Whoops: Anti-fracking activists glued themselves to the wrong gas station
Nothing a little Goof Off can’t fix! Too bad you can’t say the same for fracking.
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This student-designed portable home may be the most beautiful tiny house we’ve seen
This tiny house is complete with rainwater collection, composting toilet, and 120-watt solar panel. And it's CUTE!
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SeaWorld only spends 0.0006 percent of revenue on animal rescue and rehabilitation
Once you figure out SeaWorld's priorities, "that’s when you start to get segregated and they try to get rid of you," a former SeaWorld trainer says.
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Meet Monsanto’s newest vegetables
They sound like science fiction, but they're based in farming techniques as old as ... well, pretty much as old as civilization.
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East Rockaway teen pays forward Sandy aid by bringing water to West Virginia
But it shouldn’t be up to teenagers to show some human kindness in a situation like this.
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Newly discovered dolphin species is probably an asshole
We are willing to consider the possibility that this recently discovered dolphin variety might be more relaxed than its brethren.
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This overhead view of the world’s largest offshore wind farm is surprisingly awesome
You're looking at 175 turbines, generating enough electricity to power up to 500,000 homes.
