Grist List
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Artist slices delicate, beautiful nature scenes out of leaves
Lorenzo Durán's cut-away leaf art is both mindblowing and a thoughtful meditation on ecology.
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Slovenians house their bees in works of art
Slovenes provide gorgeous painted beehives for their colonies
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An open letter to people who don’t like cheeseburgers, by a cheeseburger
Cheeseburgers have a lot of feelings, and those feelings are LIES.
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Supremely epic bus commercial looks like the trailer for a summer blockbuster
If Michael Bay were any good, and he directed bus commercials, this is what they would look like.
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U.S. exit signs use as much power as West Virginia
The country's 100 million lighted exit signs use 30 to 35 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year
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New startup measures your home’s efficiency just by taking a picture
Forty percent of energy in the United States is used to heat buildings and homes. Only some of that goes to actually sparing your whiny ass from getting up and putting on a sweater, though. The rest — billions of dollars worth — just leaks out your windows and doors. But a new company could […]
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Gaza’s first electric car is made of recycled materials and cost less than $1,000
It’s always heartwarming when someone who lives somewhere completely fucked manages to do something useful to improve their circumstances, and, in turn, to make the place they live slightly less fucked. Gaza resident and taxi driver Munthar al-Qassas was tired of waiting in the hot sun to buy gas during the region’s ongoing gas shortage. […]
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These tiny plants can live for 300 years with the help of their friends the ants
The herb Borderea chouardii is like the Disney heroine of plants
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Your CD collection is greener than Spotify
A new report crunched the numbers on your Spotify habit and concluded that it's terrible for energy consumption.
