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Another day, another cougar
A cougar was recently removed from a Seattle park just a few miles from where I live. I poked around looking for cougar sign by some ponds in the park […]
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Wow: the Heinz Award (or, hands off my mic, Kanye!)
As a journalist, I feel like I should have some clever and creative lead for this piece. But I keep coming back to the tried and true: It is such […]
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Grist founder honored with 2009 Heinz Award
What do you get for the best eco-boss ever? A stainless steel water bottle? A bike repair kit? A share of a local farm CSA? The Grist staff was thinking […]
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Friday music blogging: Röyksopp
Fact: At some point, everyone could stand to give in to a little cheesy Euro-disco-electronic music. Do not try to dispute this. To celebrate this late-summer sunny day in Seattle […]
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Mont St Michel — flushing the meadows
Restoring the natural topography around Mont St Michel will result in a sandy stretch at low tide, prompting locals to suggest sand and eventual climate change will replace the region’s […]
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EPA’s failure to publicize drinking water data prompts rethinking in agency, Congress
This story was written by Danielle Ivory. There is some evidence that Congress — and the Environmental Protection Agency — are rethinking their policies on a commonly used weed-killer after […]
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Friday music blogging: The Low Anthem
The Low Anthem originally released their debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, last year. It’s been a sleeper hit (as these things go), gradually spreading by word-of-mouth to the point […]
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1, 461 MPG (e)
I gave Jo Borras over on Gas2.0 a rough time in my last post, but he really made up for it with his latest article. Go read it here. In […]
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Friday music blogging: Gomez
Gomez is one of those bands that for a brief moment in the late ’90s and early ’00s aaalmost reached the big time, and then … didn’t. But when their […]
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Water utilities lack proper filters for weed-killer
This story was written by Danielle Ivory. Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer from […]
