Articles by Madeleine Thomas

Madeleine Thomas is a Grist fellow. Follow her on Twitter.

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The drought is destroying California’s organic dairy farms

For 20 years, organics have provided a future for a dying industry. Dry times are changing that.

Madeleine Thomas Climate & Energy
These ice cream makers aren’t down with vanilla’s brand new invention

Companies like Häagen-Dazs and Straus Family Creamery won't be using vanilla made via synthetic biology.

Madeleine Thomas Food and Agriculture
PETA’s new virtual reality game could make you too chicken to eat chicken

I, Chicken, a new virtual reality game from PETA, lets you experience life as a chicken just before slaughter.

Madeleine Thomas Technology
This California bill will make electric cars way less pretentious

If passed, the Charge Ahead California Initiative would subsidize electric cars for low-income drivers throughout the state.

Madeleine Thomas Culture