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Featured Friend: Marcia Rutan

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 […]

Friday music blogging: Freelance Whales

The music of Freelance Whales has an immediate warmth and familiarity that’s either comforting or derivative, depending on your perspective. You could mistake them for Postal Service from across the […]

Zach Weiner on how to pass climate change legislation

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The BP oil disaster is certainly not the first oil spill in US history, but it could be the last. Nor is this the our worst oil spill – – […]

More ideas for Harry Reid: on energy efficiency in Senate energy legislation

Senate majority leader Harry Reid is pulling together an energy bill soon. It may or may not include a price on carbon, but it will certainly include a range of […]

Friday music blogging: Ratatat

Ratatat is two guys in New York City, one who plays guitar, the other a synthesizer-bass-producer polymath. It’s hard to know exactly what to call their stuff. It’s got programmed […]

Kansas City pioneers new models for urban farms

Seven women in ankle-length floral dresses bend at the waist in rows of kale, arugula, and kohlrabi. Their hands effortlessly scoop and pick and cut the stems and pull the […]

'BLUE PLANET' Sends Timely Message to Protect Oceans [VIDEO]

A new music video from Barcelona-based musician Sam Lardner spreads a timely message about the importance for all people to work together to save our oceans.  With footage of the […]

Just how much oil is still spurting into the Gulf?

“The immense undersea gusher of oil and gas, seen on live video feed, looks as big as it did last week, or bigger, before the company sliced through the pipe […]

Obama needs to pay attention to a different kind of leak in the Gulf

There’s a lot of talk in the media about whether President Obama is sufficiently angry about the oil spill. Who cares? There are many more important questions, including: How effectively […]