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Featured Friend: Heidi Pickman
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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Zero-Carbon Buildings
The building sector is responsible for a large share of world electricity consumption and raw materials use. In the United States, buildings—commercial and residential—account for 72 percent of electricity use […]
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How to be as persuasive as Abe Lincoln and Marc Antony, Part 2: Use irony, the twist we can't resist
I almost let the Ides of March slip by without reexamining Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech. It is a model of rhetorical brilliance — and a model for “The […]
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Friday music blogging: Sarah Jaffe
I don’t make it a point to try to spot the Next Big Thing here at FMB. But sometimes the Next Big Thing just falls into my lap. In May […]
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Old growth, slow gain
Change is often incremental. Good change, usually glacial. That describes the update I recently received from a friend in Poland, anyhow, whose work I had just profiled in Earth Island […]
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Grist’s rejected punny headlines from the week of 1 March 2010
If you’ve ever wondered how Grist’s famous (and mysterious) pun machine works, wonder a little less. We present you with a glimpse into its inner workings: a list of rejected […]
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Friday music blogging: Aloe Blacc
The new HBO show How to Make It In America is pretty good, but by far the best thing about it is the opening credit sequence. When I first saw […]
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EPA stands by as polluters ignore the Clean Water Act
(iStockphoto)Another entry in the New York Times fantastic “Toxic Waters” series came out on Sunday. This latest one is about the slow but tragically effective weakening of the Clean Water […]
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China's changing energy economy
In Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, I have presented a plan to dramatically reduce carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. In […]
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Coal Ash Stories Highlight the Problems
This post was co-written by Lyndsay Moseley, Associate Washington Representative for the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. This week we had the privilege to listen in on a White House […]
