Articles by Lisa Hymas
Lisa Hymas is director of the climate and energy program at Media Matters for America. She was previously a senior editor at Grist.
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A challenge to chefs: Make me a delicious vegetarian entree — or stop claiming to care about sustainability
Chefs these days like to talk big about sustainable food, but they forget one of the key tenets of eco-friendly eating: cut back on the meat.
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When did vegetarianism become passe?
Sustainable meat is all the rage these days, but vegetarians shouldn't be cowed (ahem) by carnivorous hipsters: A veg diet is still a big winner for the environment.
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Obama makes strong call for clean energy — oh, and drilling and fracking too
Clean energy rocks. Nice people get jobs at wind-turbine plants. Oil-industry subsidies suck. We need to drill, baby, drill. And we need to frack, baby, frack. That's the takeaway from the State of the Union.
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Old dog, Newt tricks: Gingrich’s views on climate, EPA, and ‘green conservatism’
Gingrich has been all over the map on climate change. Catch the highlights and revisit his 2010 interview with Grist.
