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• CITY OF GREEN ROSES

  Tell Grist: What’s your favorite green hot spot in Portland? 6

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 1:15 PM By Holly Richmond

  Yo Portlandia! We're compiling a guide to the perfect green Portland weekend, and we need your help! Read More

• The parent trap

  Care about population? About women? Then you should care that GOP is taking aim at family planning

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 12:49 PM By Lisa Hymas

  Deficit-peacock Republicans in the House don't want to make any cuts at all to the budgets of the Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security, but they're delighted to completely eliminate funding for a family-planning program that serves low-income Americans. No matter that the move would actually increase long-term costs to taxpayers. Read More

• The Biggest Loser

  Are we in a ‘clean energy race’ with China? 8

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 11:56 AM By David Roberts

  A popular line among climate hawks these days goes something like this: If the U.S. doesn't support domestic clean energy, China will beat us in the clean energy race. But is it politically useful to say we are in a contest with China? And are we in fact in a clean energy contest with China? Read More

• Clean air is popular, actually

  The people have spoken: let the EPA do its job

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 11:00 AM By Peter Altman

  Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held their first hearing on Chair Fred Upton's proposal to block the EPA from limiting carbon pollution. What do voters in Upton's district think of his proposal? What about voters in the districts of other committee members who will have to vote on blocking the EPA? Read More

• feed me a stray cat

  Are flesh-eating robots the future of green tech? 2

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 10:58 AM By Jess Zimmerman

  Wind, sun, clean air ... alternative energy needs to toughen up its image. Enter James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, British designers who have developed appliances that run on bugs and vermin. Read More

• Cold comfort farm

  Keeping farm animals alive in a freezing Nebraska winter 7

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 9:24 AM By Steph Larsen

  As you can see from the picture, it's a bit chilly (read: sub-zero) on our rural Nebraska farm right now. But that doesn't mean we're twiddling our thumbs waiting for spring. Read More

• regulate my greenhouse-gas emissions, please!

  Industry voices support EPA action on Clean Air Act

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 9:13 AM By World Resources Institute

  On Capitol Hill today, industry leaders and other experts explained why the upcoming Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards on carbon dioxide emissions can benefit U.S. business and help drive innovation while keeping our air and water clean. Read More

• "Citysumer" reports

  How do you sell a city without selling out? 3

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 7:34 AM By Sarah Goodyear

  Cities are a hot property this year. But can urban places market themselves with true grit? Read More

• 100000 ways to die

  How to bury nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years 2

  Posted 10 Feb 2011 4:00 AM By Miller-McCune

  A new film documents Finland’s effort to seal away nuclear waste for the next 100 millennia. But how can one predict 100,000 years into the future? Read More

• SHOW ME YOUR TEETH

  Lady Gaga’s boyfriend writes binge-drinking health book ‘The Drunk Diet’ 2

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 4:09 PM By Holly Richmond

  Lord Gaga lost 40 pounds by binge-drinking -- and his sound weight-loss tips will be featured in forthcoming book The Drunk Diet. Oatmeal stout for breakfast! Read More

• if only it were that easy

  Republican congressmen vote away scientific facts 10

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 2:51 PM By Dave Hawkins

  The House Republicans' latest efforts to fight the EPA and the Clean Air Act are an attempt to legislate an alternate reality. Read More

• where pies go when they die

  ‘Piecycle’ makes it OK for hipsters to eat dessert 2

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 1:16 PM By Jess Zimmerman

  Max Kraushaar has ridden his fixie right out of an episode of Portlandia to bring you some lemon meringue. The entrepreneurial Seattle native uses his bike to deliver pie to hungry hipsters. Read More

• The yuppies of the future live in yurts 4

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 12:42 PM By Jess Zimmerman

• Silly science: Animals make friends too 5

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 12:12 PM By Holly Richmond

• How to milk goats in freezing weather—and make chevre [VIDEO]

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 11:40 AM By Daniel Klein

• An arts district brings life to Syracuse—and it’s green, too

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 11:16 AM By Kaid Benfield

• Why do states break down?

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 11:02 AM By Lester Brown

• Southern California Edison signs another big photovoltaic farm deal 86

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 10:27 AM By Todd Woody

• Bush’s Johnson stood up for climate 4

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 10:06 AM By David Doniger

• Ask Umbra Book Club: Did Paleolithic hunter-gatherers eat healthier than we do today? 14

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 9:43 AM By Umbra Fisk

• Town centers are the new death panels 9

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 8:33 AM By Jess Zimmerman

• Report: U.S. in fast lane to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 8

  Posted 9 Feb 2011 8:17 AM By Todd Woody

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