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Friday music blogging: Monsters of Folk
Several years ago — I think around 2004 or 2005 — I caught a show in Seattle that I figured was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes), Jim […]
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Electric car sells out in Japan. It's downhill from here.
According to the Edmunds Green Car Advisor blog, Mitsubishi has already sold out the first production run of it’s electric car, the i-MiEV. Here’s the real deal. The i-MiEV is […]
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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 […]
