Grist List

Airbnb thinks your apartment would make a great illegal bistro

Not content to make a fortune off of other people’s houses, Airbnb wants you to make dinner for people you don’t know, and pay Airbnb for the privilege.

Jim Meyer Culture

Move over, Avatar: Suzy Amis-Cameron (James’ wife) fights environmental disaster with vegan school lunches

Suzy Amis-Cameron says the school she founded will soon offer only plant-based meals.

Samantha Larson Culture

US Marines landing on Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 17 Feb 1944

Climate change is washing WWII soldiers from their graves

Ghosts of one of mankind’s greatest tragedies returning, a macabre warning in the face of this, humanity’s next great folly.

Jim Meyer Climate & Energy

Art trucks bring a little eye candy to the local underpass

Art is no longer confined to the outside of vans. It’s got a seat inside in a growing fleet of mobile art galleries.

Jim Meyer Culture

Finally, an electric car that crushes all the others (literally)

Drive an E-Bigfoot, pimped out with with a super quiet electric motor, and those cars you’re gonna crush won’t even hear you coming.

Jim Meyer Technology

Kick back, relax, and count all the sharks at your local beach

Global Shark Tracker lets you follow the movements of sharks around the world -- and avoid unexpected lunch dates.

Jim Meyer Uncategorized

For $20,000, George R.R. Martin will kill you and save the wolves

If you are a top funder of the author's Wolf Sanctuary crowdfunding campaign you, too, could have your (fictional) skull crushed by the Game of Thrones author.

Amelia Urry Culture

Crazy contraption turns cow poo into clean water, fertilizer, and natural gas (ahem)

A single cow produces 10,000 gallons of poop each year. That's a whole lotta Kool-Aid!