We graded the feds on their en...

May 10, 2015 by

We graded the feds on their environmental justice programs — here’s how they fared

[Translate] Shutterstock By Brentin Mock   GRIST As the winds settled from Hurricane Sandy, Shaun Donovan, then-head of the U.S....

read more

Oil trains have 3 more years t...

May 5, 2015 by

Oil trains have 3 more years to explode, thanks to weak Obama rule

[Translate] Shutterstock By Luke Whelan   GRIST This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of...

read more

The U.S. Is Getting Serious Ab...

May 5, 2015 by

The U.S. Is Getting Serious About Oil Train Explosions. Here’s How It Plans To Stop Them.

[Translate] by Ari Phillips  CLIMATE PROGRESS A cyclist rides by train tank cars with placards indicating petroleum crude oil...

read more

Futuristic Transport

May 4, 2015 by

Futuristic Transport

[Translate] Metropolis Magazine A striking silhouette against the Southern California landscape, the Anaheim Regional Transportation...

read more

What if roads could be certifi...

Apr 29, 2015 by

What if roads could be certified as ‘green’ just like buildings?

[Translate] by Michelle Kennedy Hogan, INHABITAT With over four million miles of roads cris-crossing the nation, and as much as...

read more

L.A.’s New City Plan Will Make...

Apr 11, 2015 by

L.A.’s New City Plan Will Make You Want To Move There

[Translate] by Ari Phillips CLIMATE PROGRESS Palm trees at the Magic Hour in Los Angeles, C.A. CREDIT: flickr/ Chris Goldberg Los...

read more

10 cities drearier than Seattl...

Mar 25, 2015 by

10 cities drearier than Seattle

[Translate] Chris Blakeley By Katie Herzog   GRIST CityLab recently reported that Grist’s hometown Seattle was named America’s...

read more

Are millennials really just fu...

Mar 25, 2015 by

Are millennials really just future suburbanites?

[Translate] By Ben Adler GRIST Over at FiveThirtyEight, Ben Casselman argues that the supposed millennial affection for cities is a...

read more

The First Solar-Powered Flight...

Mar 9, 2015 by

The First Solar-Powered Flight Around The World Just Took Off

[Translate]   by Ari Phillips  CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Courtesy of Solar Impulse© On Monday in Abu Dhabi, diagnosis two Swiss...

read more

IS ONLINE SHOPPING BAD FOR THE...

Feb 25, 2015 by

IS ONLINE SHOPPING BAD FOR THE PLANET?

[Translate] David Friedlander   LIFE EDITED Behavior For those who, ailment like this author, health loathe shopping, healing Amazon...

read more

WHY WE NEED TO FIX OUR CRUMBLI...

Feb 14, 2015 by

WHY WE NEED TO FIX OUR CRUMBLING ROADS, NOT BUILD NEW ONES!

[Translate] Dustin Moore By Liz Core   GRIST The United States road system is knit together like a Forever 21 cardigan: marginally...

read more

4 REASONS YOU SHOULD BUY A USE...

Feb 12, 2015 by

4 REASONS YOU SHOULD BUY A USED CAR INSTEAD OF A NEW ONE

[Translate] Environment 4 Reasons You Should Buy a Used Car Instead of a New One Used cars are not only easy on your pocketbook,...

read more

Elon Musk Is Right: Hydrogen I...

Feb 12, 2015 by

Elon Musk Is Right: Hydrogen Is ‘An Incredibly Dumb’ Car Fuel

[Translate] by Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS CEO Elon Musk speaks at 2009 unveiling of Tesla Model S all-electric car. CREDIT: AP Cars...

read more

General Motors Teams up with S...

Feb 9, 2015 by

General Motors Teams up with Students to Design the Future of Car Travel

[Translate] Lillien Waller  METROPOLIS MAGAZINE With all the technology, social media, and bespoke products available to them, the...

read more

NYC’S MEAN STREETS GET S...

Jan 28, 2015 by

NYC’S MEAN STREETS GET SWEETER

[Translate] THE DIRT   by Jared Green “New York City’s mean streets are getting a little sweeter, decease ” said Janette Sadik-Khan,...

read more

Save Half the Planet, or Lose ...

Jan 23, 2015 by

[Translate] t By Stephen Leahy  DRIVING THE NATION MÉRIDA, order Mexico, treat Nov 17 2009 (IPS) – At least half the planet must be...

read more

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT CITIES ...

Jan 23, 2015 by

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT CITIES AND TRANSPORTATION?

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green “The science is clear. Climate change is already costly and shaping development, site ” said...

read more

COMPLETE STREETS VS. TRUCKS

Jan 23, 2015 by

COMPLETE STREETS VS. TRUCKS

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green As more communities invest in green, treatment complete streets to create environments that are...

read more

We have to build much smarter ...

Jan 13, 2015 by

We have to build much smarter cities if we want to fight climate change

[Translate] Shutterstock By John Light GRIST If we can develop better cities, we can make a big dent in future greenhouse gas...

read more

The Slow Death of the Walkable...

Jan 8, 2015 by

The Slow Death of the Walkable City

[Translate] David Friedlander   LIFE EDITED Architecture As a bit of an urban planning enthusiast, pills I’ve often wondered how...

read more

Why Airlines Want to Make You ...

Jan 3, 2015 by

Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer

[Translate] By Tim Wu  NEW YORKER MAGAZINE Credit Photograph by Scott Olson / Getty This fall, prostate JetBlue airline finally threw...

read more

These fantastic maps showed us...

Jan 2, 2015 by

These fantastic maps showed us different worlds in 2014

[Translate] Andresr/Shutterstock By Heather Smith GRIST I love maps to a ridiculous degree — I even worked on a book of them once, a...

read more