Grist List
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These customizable sandals help Ugandan women go to college
Is tying your shoes the best part of your day? Then this news will make your LIFETIME!
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Wanna get West Nile virus? Climate change will help
Global warming will raise temperatures so residents of California and even southern Canada will have a better shot at the virus.
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We’d love these new fair-trade sustainable condoms, if the marketing weren’t kinda sexist
Men don't care about sustainability! They just want a condom brand that sounds like a monster truck rally.
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New York could turn its trash into giant floating compost islands
Here's one quirky solution to NYC's problem of trucking waste to landfills out of state.
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It only takes otters 25 years to recover from an oil spill
This means marine life could fully recover from the BP oil spill in ... let’s see ... 2035!
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Naples is cleaning up its streets by DNA-testing dog poop and tracking down the perpetrators
We Yanks aren’t off the hook, either -- communities in more than 40 states are testing dog dung to help stamp out crap.
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Iron Maiden singer will fly around the world in a giant hybrid airship
Iron Maiden singer, pilot, and hero Bruce Dickinson will circumnavigate the globe in the biggest thing that's ever flown -- a huge hybrid balloon.
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South Korea wants to put endangered species in gigantic bubbles
The giant translucent Easter eggs are supposed to "blend harmoniously within the surrounding environment."
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Apple CEO says he doesn’t want stockholders who don’t believe in climate change
A right-wing think tank tried to tell Tim Cook to dump Apple's green initiatives. He basically flipped them off. (Take THAT!)
