Grist List
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Ben & Jerry’s makes ice cream-powered ice cream; world peace next
Ben & Jerry's harnesses the power of leftover ice cream and microbes to power its Dutch facility.
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Don’t worry, Californians can paint their dead lawns green
Now that Californians can get fined $500-a-day for overwatering their lawns, businesses that paint lawns green are expanding.
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Here’s the history of environmental justice, summed up in less than 4 minutes
Here's your primer on environmental justice, the movement demanding equal environmental protection under the law, and fairness in the distribution of environmental benefits for all people.
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We’ve dug so many tunnels, future historians will think we were mole people
Tunnels, mines, and boreholes will permanently scar the Earth -- and could be a marker of the Anthropocene.
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Will people care about climate change if it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away?
Climate change? BORING, says this scientist. That can be solved, however, with a little help from Star Wars.
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Why R.E.M. made the most politically important album of all time
I thought that I heard you laughing, but here's why you should take that bold claim seriously.
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New Orleans school won’t be built atop a toxic dump — for now
A small alumni group from the floundering Walter L. Cohen High School has beaten back a proposal to relocate to a former landfill.
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Straussed out? Listen to wind turbine version of Blue Danube
Siemens commissioned the windy version of Blue Danube Waltz to celebrate its 448-turbine wind farm.
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More people drive to work if you give them free parking and transit passes
Yay! More traffic and carbon emissions for everyone!
