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Here’s how the media is getting the story on cities & millennials wrong
The trendsetters at the New York Times tell us that millennials are flocking to urban centers. That’s partly true, but not just for the reasons the Times mentions.
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The Opportunity to Overturn Three Costly Values in Our Energy System
Earlier this year I worked as an election judge for the city of Minneapolis. It was the city’s second experience with ranked choice voting, a system where instead of voting […]
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Climate change got you down this Earth Day? Time for a badger mask
Hopelessness peddler Paul Kingsnorth keeps winning attention for his Dark Mountain project, but his climate fatalism looks more like midlife-crisis posturing than insight.
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Wanna know what’s happened to the Gulf Coast since the BP spill? Read this blog, now
The Bridge the Gulf blog is hands-down the best source of post-spill news and insight, written by locals who have a stake in the recovery.
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Now available: 29 flavors of open source seeds, sans patents
Wisconsin researchers release the first batch of seeds designed to propagate the old-fashioned notion of sharing.
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Big Victory for Public Health – Court Upholds Mercury, Toxic Air Pollution Protections
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld limits on dangerous emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution from power plants. This was a big victory […]
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Featured Friend: Andrea Devon Bertoli
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next […]
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Is climate change the new slavery?
When a volcanic eruption threw the global climate into chaos two centuries ago, slavery surged. We can expect more such humanitarian crises in our climate-changed future.
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No-till farming’s Johnny Appleseed — in a grimy Prius
Jeff Mitchell rides up and down California's Central Valley bearing a message: Farming without plowing saves soil and money.
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Mark Ruffalo, you are our chosen green celeb! (We hope you like fruit)
The people have spoken, and one lucky man in Hollywood will be the happy recipient of a fruit basket.
