Grist List
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How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt’s
The current unrest in Egypt is too complex to blame on spiking global food prices alone, but food insecurity does lead to political insecurity.
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Thanks, climate change: Here comes Snowzilla
This week's "historic" storm will affect up to 100 million Americans; in Chicago, the National Weather Service is predicting the storm could be "lethal." Meanwhile, a new report says this is exactly what we should expect from a warming world.
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'Bio-based': organic’s sketchy new cousin
Will the USDA's new "bio-based" label, for products made with renewable ingredients, actually just enable greenwashing?
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Telecommuting might save your butt, but will it save the planet?
Marketplace says that telecommuting may not be as environmentally friendly as advertised. It saves carbon by avoiding cars, but wastes it on home heating.
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What’s a benefit corporation? And why should you shop there?
Benefit corporations are a sort of magic nonprofit and for-profit hybrid of social responsibility.
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Eco-friendly detergents ruin America and the future by requiring a tiny amount of effort
Here's the newest way attempts to save the planet are pissing off Fox News: Because of laws to limit phosphorus pollution, some people now find it marginally more inconvenient to do the dishes. WHAT ABOUT OUR FREEDOMS?
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The Oscar-nominated green documentary short you have to watch
Watch the Oscar-nominated short film about a Chinese village that conquered a chemical company. Trickery! People overcoming adversity! Cute swans!
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Obama finally pitched an energy tent big enough to attract Republicans
George Will, the conservative columnist who predicted Obama would try to "stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate" with his State of the Union speech, must be smoking a cigarette in bed by now.
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Republican rep halts House composting program to make room for all-new garbage
In a courageous move to reduce the Congressional operating budget by as much as 0.07 percent, Republican representative Dan Lungren of California has halted the House's composting program. This is of course totally legitimate budget-busting and not any kind of purely symbolic dick-waving.