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Out of the cage and onto the grass: Helping pastured eggs go mainstream By Claire Thompson, grist.org Most laying hens in the U.S. are raised in cages with up to eight other birds, with barely enough space to turn around, much less walk. They eat antibiotic-laced feed made from genetically engineered grain and the ground-up…
Williams-Sonoma’s ‘Agrarian’ products take pretentious and self-satisfied to new heights By Sarah Miller, grist.org Have you always wanted to live off the land, but you were burdened with an overfull trust fund and too many butlers? Well, say hello to Williams-Sonoma Agrarian, your portal for spending gazillions of dollars on backyard farming. Wit… http://flip.it/Jhvml Related…
Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Climate change is coming! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Magazine feature “How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Douglas, a… RT @grist: A…
Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traffic jam in Russia over the weekend. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snowstorm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Now, one might think a country… RT @grist: Russia had a…
garbage cans turned into living containers by philipp stingl P.Stingl, designboom.com garbage cans turned into ‘living containers’ by philipp stingl as the demographic evolution in germany and other countries becomes more dramatic, social systems will collapse and from the ashes an aging society will rise, marked by crime, sickn… garbage dumpsters turned into living containers…
This device tells your phone how gross the air is to breathe By Sarah Miller, grist.org Do you remember in The Big Lebowski when TBL himself says to the Dude, “You told Brandt on the phone, and Brandt told me?” Well, that’s kind of the same way that this device, called CitiSense, works. It measures…
America’s fastest-growing state: North Frackota By Philip Bump, grist.org According to the weirdly huge text on the Census Bureau’s website, the fastest-growing state in the country in 2011 was North Dakota, which grew at a rate of 2.17 percent. The second fastest-growing state was the District of Columbia, wh… RT @grist: America’s fastest-growing state: North…
Chicken farmers replace antibiotics with oregano oil By Sarah Miller, grist.org Animals raised to be food get diseases easily. There’s a lot of them hanging around in one place, waiting to die, so it’s not terribly surprising that they get sick. Precautions have to be taken, which is why these animals have long b… RT…
Concord, Mass., is the first city to ban plastic water bottles By Sarah Miller, grist.org Leave it to Massachusetts: trailblazers in gay marriage and just all-around good old-fashioned community-minded liberal folks. Mitt Romney notwithstanding, can the world really be surprised that the adorable Massachusetts town of… RT @grist: Did you know Americans use 1,500 bottles…
People will go out of their way to hit turtles with cars, because people are jerks By Sarah Miller, grist.org A student at Clemson University made a disturbing discovery when he placed a rubber turtle in the road and spent an hour watching what passing cars would do. Out of 257 cars that passed, seven…
Supermarket is saving $80 million a year just by putting doors on its refrigerators By Sarah Miller, grist.org You know how when you were a teenager (or a 20-something living on your parents’ couch) and you stood around with the refrigerator door hanging open, and your mom would be all “hey, I’m not paying to…
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