Grist List

The new "EcoCup," billed as a green K-Cup alternative, is recyclable -- but not all that recyclable.

Jess Zimmerman Culture

These travel mugs made from olive wood and white oak are dishwasher safe, minimally porous, and free of the chemicals in plastic and metal cups.

Holly Richmond Culture

The prank seems merely silly on the surface, but it could actually point to underlying class-based tension in one of America’s most spendy cities.

Holly Richmond Culture

You shouldn't let this keep you from using public transit, but we'd understand if you avoided open-toed shoes for a while.

Jess Zimmerman Cities

This is like the planet having a hole in its undershirt. We need a sewing kit or a better planetary antiperspirant or both.

Holly Richmond Culture

Hybrids and EVs actually ARE more likely to hit cyclists and pedestrians because they're so quiet.

Holly Richmond Technology

What happens when your crapper becomes a piece of crap? Hopefully it gets turned into sustainable concrete.

Holly Richmond Culture

Steve Areen built the fruit-inspired orange dome on a Thai mango farm using blocks of compressed dirt.

Holly Richmond Culture

An Inconvenient Truth producer Lawrence Bender is in talks to make a sequel to 2006's biggest movie about a slideshow.

Holly Richmond Culture

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