Grist List
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This “ski lift for cyclists” helps you get up hills
A Norwegian city built “the world's first bicycle lift intended for urban areas,” and over 15 years, it's helped 200,000 cyclists up a 426-foot hill.
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Bill Maher says you aren’t an environmentalist unless you care about overpopulation
If you care about sustainability -- hell, if you care about the future at all -- you should be seriously worried about how many humans are on the planet.
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This bike glows in the dark when headlights hit it
As Mission Bicycle Company says, “Dark gray by day, bright white at night.” Genius, no?
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San Francisco’s Castro district is putting in rainbow crosswalks
Here's something to literally brighten your day.
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Designer furnishes an entire room with trash
"It's a way to fight the idea that we're supposed to throw things away or produce more and more stuff that won't last," says Paulo Goldstein.
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Finally, a way to actually make your office a comfortable temperature
Here's a way better solution than your bossiest coworker constantly getting up to fiddle with the thermostat.
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This tandem bike shrinks to a solo one for after you’ve been dumped
Calfee Design makes some pretty sweet bamboo bikes, but now it's even anticipating your change in Facebook relationship status.
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Turn your poop into charcoal and cook with it!
This solar-powered toilet, intended for developing countries without robust water access, turns waste into fuel. Then we turn it back into poop jokes.
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Pat Robertson: God caused a power outage to punk politicians who care about climate change
Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and others at the Senate all-nighter about climate change got a prank for the ages when the guy in the sky sent them a brief power outage.
