Aigner et al. 2017 “Plant RuBisCo assembly in E. coli with five chloroplast chaperones including BSD2” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29217567
C4 Rice Project c4rice.com/the-science/photosynthetic-pathwaysWhat an accidental study revealed about our healthGrist2024-05-14 | Wildfire smoke damaged these monkey's health for decades. Could the same be happening to us?
Maniar-Hew et al. 2011 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064293One of the world’s healthiest coral reefs is in an oil fieldGrist2024-05-09 | For now, the reef is thriving – how long it lasts depends on us.
Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary flowergarden.noaa.govNatures misunderstood puppet mastersGrist2024-05-07 | Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you’d expect.
Sato, Takuya et al. 2011 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/09-1565.1How US efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demiseGrist2023-10-11 | On a breezy spring day, Lorraine Eiler, a member of the Hia-Ced O’odham tribe, walked with me around the border of Quitobaquito Springs — a strawberry-shaped oasis in the Sonoran Desert near Pima County, Arizona. Her family has lived in the area for generations.
“If you do research on Quitobaquito, the majority of times you will read about the cattlemen that lived here in the area, about the people that went through Quitobaquito,” she said. “You hear nothing about the fact that it’s an old Indian village. It was abundant. Now, it’s just … well, you see what it looks like.”
The first thing you notice most about Quitobaquito Springs is the trees. It’s the only source of water for miles in the desert and the lush vegetation around it is stark against the dry tan and khaki landscape and occasional organ pipe cactus. The second thing you notice: the border wall, 30 feet tall, just feet from the water’s edge. I asked Eiler how the landscape compares to her early memories of the site. Read the written version of this story on Grist: grist.org/video/quitobaquito-springs-national-park-service-border-indigenous-water-protectionThe need for carbon removal is clearGrist2023-05-30 | Should we pull carbon out of the air with trees, or machines? It’s not as simple as it sounds.
Music: AudiosocketThe very bad math drying up the Colorado RiverGrist2023-04-26 | California and Arizona are currently fighting each other over water. But this isn’t new – it’s actually been going on for over 100 years. At one point, the states literally went to war about it. The problem comes down to some really bad math from 1922.
To some extent, the crisis can be blamed on climate change. The West is in the middle of a once-in-a-millennium drought. As temperatures rise, the snow pack that feeds the river has gotten much thinner and the river’s main reservoirs have all but dried up. But that’s only part of the story.
The United States has also been overusing the Colorado for more than a century thanks to a byzantine set of flawed laws and lawsuits known as “the law of the river.” This legal tangle not only has been over-allocating the river, it also has been driving conflict in the region, especially between the two biggest users: California and Arizona, both trying to secure as much water as they can. And now, as a massive drought grips the region, the law of the river has reached a breaking point.
Visual sources: Getty Images National Archives Library of Congress UCLA | Charles E. Young Research Library: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Storyblocks
Music: AudiosocketWhy bigger freeways means worse trafficGrist2023-03-16 | Check out our full video on the compelling case for removing urban freeways: youtu.be/O6WtYTThkdUExxon predicted climate change with 99% accuracy — in 1985.Grist2023-02-17 | #shorts Watch our full video here: youtu.be/zF9me_FYcEs
For more information about our sources and the how we calculated our 100 molecules, check out our website: grist.org/climate/methanes-life-death-and-secret-second-lifeHow much could you save with an e-bike?Grist2022-12-07 | Electric bike sales are booming. In the United States, retailers more than doubled their sales in 2020 and demand has only increased. Globally, we’re expected to reach 40 million e-bikes sold in the year 2023. It’s easy to see why. On the spectrum of transportation options, e-bikes have some clear benefits: They use a great deal less energy (and therefore cost less) than a personal car. They save a lot of effort (and are therefore more convenient) than a regular bike. And depending on your route, they can even be the fastest way to arrive at your destination.
It’s easy to find testimonials from people on the internet who have swapped a car for an electric bicycle. In fact, we produced a video about this very topic with Grist reporter Eve Andrews a few years ago. These anecdotes often come from people living in dense cities, where trip distances tend to be shorter. But what about folks who live in suburban or rural towns — are e-bikes still a good deal?
As part of our video series Crunch the Numbers, we decided to look into how much carbon and cash the average American household could save if they swapped out their vehicle for an e-bike.
Spreadsheet with calculator and sources: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Kv1mUb5EAvTweobKLRqxU70Z56aD_wBeC624qktnZI/edit#gid=184833348How snow loss is fueling the West’s megadroughtGrist2022-10-05 | Lake Mead is America’s largest reservoir, supplying water for 25 million people across the southwest. It’s also drying up — a kind of poster child for the ongoing drought in the West. But upstream, a much larger but lesser known source of stored water is also disappearing: mountain snow. This is how climate change is throwing one of the United States’ most critical sources of water out of whack.
In the near future, the West could lose about a quarter of its historical snowpack. As for the end of the century, that’s where climate models start to diverge, largely depending on how fast we end up taking action on the climate crisis.
#climatechange #drought #snow #lakemead #climate #climatecrisisWhats the true cost of an induction stove?Grist2022-09-07 | A cook's climate, health, and cost guide to the induction versus gas debate.
For decades, cooking with a gas stove has been seen as the fanciest and most enjoyable way to cook. But are we really better off with natural gas? Climate experts and professional chefs alike say that there is an alternative that could give gas a run for its money: induction stoves.
Columbia CO2 electricity map https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/low-carbon-heat-solutions-heavy-industry-sources-options-and-costs-today
00:00 Intro 00:45 How efficient are induction stoves? 01:50 CO2 / environmental comparison 03:22 Cost comparison 04:39 Cookware question 05:13 Health and kitchen pollution 06:07 Big picture
#induction #cooking #climatechange #cookingwithgasThe temperature threshold the human body cant surviveGrist2022-08-17 | New research says this dangerous wet bulb temperature is happening sooner than we thought.
#climatechange #heatwaves #scienceWhats the true cost of a heat pump?Grist2022-07-06 | The home heating and cooling technology known as the heat pump is incredibly efficient, meaning big potential savings both for carbon emissions and for utility bills. So how good are heat pumps for the climate? And how much money do they save?
00:00 Intro 00:29 How efficient are heat pumps? 01:17 What's the CO2 savings? 02:52 Cost comparison 05:50 Heat pumps in cold weather
#heatpump #climatechange #personalfinance #co2How a beaver boom is reshaping floods and fireGrist2022-06-08 | Beavers can be a nuisance — but they might also offer some real climate benefits.
David Haakenson thinks about water a lot. That’s because the farm he owns in western Washington experiences frequent, catastrophic floods. And climate change is making that trend worse.
“We had floods in October. We had floods in November, December, January, February, and March,” said Haakenson, the owner of Jubilee Farm. “There's this kind of anxiety that involves — like, when you look out on the field and say, ‘Wow, I make my living off that field and now it's a lake.’”
To protect Jubilee Farm, Haakenson is looking to an unlikely ally: Beavers. Because it turns out, beavers might actually offer some real protection against climate impacts like flooding and wildfires — if people can learn to live with them.
#beavers #flood #climatechange #wildfireThe deadly chemical refineries are reluctant to quitGrist2022-04-06 | Hydrofluoric acid can form a lethal cloud of gas that can travel for miles. At refineries nationwide, a toxic release is only an accident away.
Safety Fears in Torrance Strain Ties With Mobil, 1989 | Los Angeles Times latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-16-me-2629-story.htmlHow a geothermal breakthrough could transform our energy gridGrist2022-03-16 | Newberry Volcano — the largest volcano in the Pacific Northwest — is the site of an experiment that’s aiming for a breakthrough in geothermal energy.
The experiment is one small step in the high-risk, high-reward world of next generation geothermal. The goal is to replace fossil fuels with this always-on, renewable energy. The challenge, however, is getting it to work.
#geothermal #renewables #proofofconcept #geothermalenergyClimate Solutions from the Frontlines of Environmental JusticeGrist2022-03-04 | "Climate solutions from the frontlines of environmental justice" sponsored by Grist and Climate Justice Alliance
As humanity tackles the threat of climate change, it must move with urgency to ensure a liveable future. At the same time, it must also protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the frontline of the crisis today — who suffer unduly from the pollution that contributes to warming, as well as the impacts of a changing climate. Leaders from frontline communities throughout the United States have worked hard to ensure a voice for their neighbors and have also developed a framework for evaluating solutions to the climate crisis that are just and equitable.
In this discussion, leaders from across the country will discuss the framework of centering equity and justice and tackling the root causes of the climate crisis as society moves away from fossil fuels, share real-life examples of how solutions that meet that framework operate on the ground, and warn of what they see as “false solutions,” which rather than benefiting vulnerable communities will ensure they remain sacrifice zones.How Were Fixin It: Scaling Climate Tech with Community InvestmentGrist2022-02-25 | Climate solutions are most successful when they are led by the communities they aim to serve, especially when those communities are affected by climate change today.
Join Fix Network Weaver Tory Stephens for a conversation with Elemental Excelerator’s founder and CEO Dawn Lippert, Managing Director of Equity & Access Sara Chandler, and CEO and Co-Founder of Allume Energy Cameron Knox (an Elemental portfolio company) exploring the dynamic nature of deployment of climate technologies in the real world.
They’ll share their experiences and insights designing mutually beneficial partnerships between startups and community-based organizations for increased social and environmental impact.This iron flow battery could power a more renewable gridGrist2022-02-10 | Jesse traveled to a factory in Oregon, that’s building a new type of battery.
Sitting in a row outside of the factory, these giant batteries are the size of freight containers. Powered by vats of iron and saltwater, they’re called iron flow batteries. And they’re part of a wave of cleantech inventions designed to store energy from the sun and the wind, and solve a problem that has stumped the energy world for more than 150 years.
#ironbattery #flowbattery #energy #energystorage #ironwater #flow #renewablesWhat bacteria in smoke means for our healthGrist2022-01-12 | At a prescribed burn site in rural Idaho, a team of fire scientists are using a tricked-out drone to hunt for life in the smoke. What they discover could have big implications for our world, and our health.
Inside the cloud of smoke, amid all the dust and ash, are hundreds, or even thousands, of different bacteria and fungi. The scientists studying them are part of an entirely new field of research: Pyroaerobiology, the study of life in smoke.
The field is so new that it didn’t exist just a few years ago. Back then, there was only one published study on this subject. And it came from a high school science fair project.What moss tells us about air pollutionGrist2021-12-08 | A sprig of moss is growing on a tree in the Duwamish Valley, the most polluted area in Seattle. While that moss might seem ordinary, it has a secret superpower: It’s keeping a record of the pollution in the air — from the trucks, trains, planes, cargo ships, and hundreds of industrial facilities that surround it. Now, a group of community scientists are using this overlooked plant to take control of the air they breathe.
This is the first video in our new science series, Proof of Concept.
#airpollution #moss #citizenscienceProof of Concept | A new science series from GristGrist2021-12-07 | I’m Jesse Nichols, and I cover science and solutions at Grist. I spent the last six month working on a brand new science series that’s dropping next week:
It’s called Proof of Concept, and it’s a series about the messy process of how scientific progress actually happens. The accidental discoveries, the great ideas that just sit there until the right person comes along at the right time, -- and just all the clever and scrappy and sometimes lucky work that moves science forward. I spent the last six months researching and traveling and talking to people about stories big and small — from the tiniest microbes floating in the air to a renewable energy project on one of the largest volcanoes in the American West.
We’ll be launching our first episode tomorrow. See you then!How Were Fixin It: Scaling Climate Tech with Community InvestmentGrist2021-12-03 | Climate solutions are most successful when they are led by the communities they aim to serve, especially when those communities are affected by climate change today.
Join Fix Network Weaver Tory Stephens for a conversation with Elemental Excelerator’s founder and CEO Dawn Lippert, Managing Director of Equity & Access Sara Chandler, and CEO and Co-Founder of Allume Energy Cameron Knox (an Elemental portfolio company) exploring the dynamic nature of deployment of climate technologies in the real world.
They’ll share their experiences and insights designing mutually beneficial partnerships between startups and community-based organizations for increased social and environmental impact.Carbon Removal and Environmental Justice: An Equitable Path to Net-negativeGrist2021-10-20 | Climate change is here, affecting the lives of communities across the globe. We’ve already reached an untenable degree of warming, and cutting emissions alone won’t reduce the impacts of CO2 already trapped in the atmosphere. “Carbon removal” encompasses a variety of emerging methods to clean up those legacy emissions. The question facing the climate community today is how.
This discussion takes a hard look at how to deploy carbon removal, from healthy soil practices to direct air capture, that centers the needs of communities, prioritizing engagement, safety, equity, and justice. Without just policy and broader community involvement, many carbon removal projects won’t get off the ground, slowing the clean-up of legacy emissions.Inside Vancouver’s plan to be the greenest city in the worldGrist2021-09-30 | A little over ten years ago, Vancouver city officials outlined a big, ambitious goal: to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. So... how'd they do?
#climatepledge #climate #urbanismImagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future AncestorsGrist2021-09-21 | Fix invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its inaugural climate-fiction contest, Imagine 2200. Authors and Imagine 2200 judges Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, Kiese Laymon, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens and Columbia University’s Brian Kahn to discuss how to build deeply intersectional worlds, systems, and solutions, and create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance. This event is presented in partnership with Columbia Climate School’s MA in Climate and Society and Orion Magazine, and with support from NRDC.The artist fusing science fiction and Native ideasGrist2021-07-28 | The events at Standing Rock prompted sculptor Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota), who was born on the reservation, to consider art in a new light. More than an object to be admired, art is a process, a way of connecting and engaging people. That realization shifted his focus toward designing new forms of collective participation, for the water protectors there at Standing Rock, and for others. He made an instructional video demonstrating how to build mirrored shields that people could use to protect themselves and to confront law enforcement officers with their own reflections. In a project focused on the murder of Indigenous women, girls, and trans and queer people, he asked communities affected by the crisis to create clay beads, which he stained and used to create a massive mosiac-style portrait. Much of his current work falls under a banner he calls “future ancestral technologies,” which combines sci-fi, technology, and Native sensibilities and ideas. “Science fiction creates a tunnel into the future, which is a shadow for us,” he says. He’s currently working on a speculative narrative of the next 30,000 years, in which the elites have ruined and abandoned Earth, the colonialist mentality has collapsed, and those left behind atone and rebuild.
#scifi #clifi #grist50 #climate #environmentHow the rise of Teslas Model S is tied to a government scandalGrist2021-07-21 | A little over a decade ago, Solyndra was the hottest thing in solar power. Solyndra was so exciting that then-President Barack Obama, who was trying to create green jobs while pulling the country out of the financial crisis, decided to give the company a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.
Within two years, Solyndra was bankrupt, out-competed by cheaper solar panels coming from China. Republicans launched a big Congressional investigation, and the FBI raided the company’s headquarters to find out where all the money had gone. Mitt Romney even went to Solyndra headquarters in Fremont, California, to make a speech decrying government waste for his 2012 campaign.
Solyndra, Republicans said, was the perfect example of everything that was totally wrong with Obama’s plan to boost clean energy with government-issued loans. But what about the rest of the loans the Obama administration gave out, like Tesla? And what should the purpose of such a loan program even be? Reporter Shannon Osaka crunches the Department of Energy’s numbers and answers what really happened to the government’s green loan program.
#tesla #ev #cleanenergy #solyndra #solyndrascandal #departmentofenergy #elonmuskBrooklyns bike-powered compost serviceGrist2021-07-13 | For Ceci Pineda, composting isn't just smart. It’s also an ancestral practice, and an accessible way of modeling the kind of resource-conscious lifestyles we need to address climate change. “It takes so much energy and work to produce a vegetable,” Pineda says. Why throw that valuable resource in the trash when it could be turned into another valuable resource?
As the executive director of BK ROT, Pineda gets to bring that practice to their fellow New Yorkers. The Brooklyn-based, bike-powered composting service employs young people from the community to collect food scraps from homes and businesses and turn that “waste” into compost for local agriculture and soil-restoration projects. “We’re a small model compared to the city’s huge footprint,” Pineda says, “but we see ourselves modeling a closed-loop service through which we can responsibly manage our waste.”
#compost #foodwaste #grist50 #brooklynThe truth about Bitcoins energy useGrist2021-06-22 | Do cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin amount to climate arson or a clean-energy boon? Well, it’s complicated.
#bitcoin #crypto #climate #climatechangeHow Were Fixin It: A Data-Driven Story of Air, People, and ScienceGrist2021-06-10 | Join Grist Fixer Davida Herzl of Aclima, Ms. Margaret Gordon of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and Jack Broadbent of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in a conversation about how the modernization of air monitoring has helped implement community-led solutions in West Oakland.Growing Climate Justice: The recipe for a just and sustainable futureGrist2021-05-27 | Join activists Alicia Garza, Leah Penniman, and Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw for a live chat on climate and racial justice.How much does an electric car actually cost?Grist2021-05-11 | Electric vehicles have long been seen as crucial to moving the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels: Many Americans are too car-addicted to abandon their personal vehicles, and the country is too tethered to its highways and suburbs to make a quick switch to a full-scale European-style public transportation system. (Sorry, mass-transit advocates.) A fleet of EVs, running on clean electricity, could help slash the 28 percent of U.S. emissions that come from transportation. But often, possible EV buyers are understandably scared off by the higher sticker price. But what about over the lifetime of a vehicle? Shannon Osaka digs into this tricky question.
If you're curious about our methodology, we used a 2020 report from Consumer Reports, showing the difference in lifetime fueling costs of Crossovers/SUVs ($11,200) and maintenance ($4,600) for all models.
#electriccars #kona #ev #tesla #hyundaiThis doctor connects climate change with healthGrist2021-05-04 | Patients trust their doctors with the intimate details of their lives, including struggles with housing, racism, or the immigration system. Gaurab Basu considers this a privilege. All healthcare providers are storytellers, and they can use these anecdotes to foster systemic change. The Center for Health Equity strives to equip them with the skills they need to advocate for better policies.
What galvanized Basu was the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which chronicled the threats to everything he cares about as a doctor — dignity, equity, justice, health. He jumped into creating new curricula for medical professionals incorporating climate and equity; writing op-eds about planetary and human well-being; testifying about how to bring health into decisions about building or transportation policy; and generally mobilizing others to make these connections. “I get excited about a world in which we do this right,” he says.
#climatechange #publichealth #grist50 #climateThe climate tipping points that could change the Earth foreverGrist2021-04-29 | How close are we to a climate tipping point? In 2019 an international team of scientists published a commentary in the celebrated science journal Nature, sounding the alarm of a planet in crisis — and calling for transformative change.
“We are in a state of planetary emergency,” they wrote, departing from the usual sterility of scientific writing. “The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.”
Yes, they were writing about climate change, but of a particular kind: climate tipping points, elements of the Earth system in which small changes in global temperature can kick off reinforcing loops that ‘tip’ a system into a profoundly different state, accelerating heat waves, permafrost thaw, and coastal flooding — and, in some cases, fueling more warming. The planet has already warmed by roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the Industrial Revolution, and if humans keep flooding the atmosphere with greenhouse gases at the same rate, we’re on track to increase that to 2.7 to 3.1 degrees C (4.9 to 5.6 degrees F) by the end of the century.
#climatechange #tippingpointsTurning e-waste into good jobsGrist2021-04-07 | Despite a lifelong love of data and numbers, the accounting scandals of the early aughts (remember Enron?) prompted Amanda LaGrange to reconsider a corporate career. She was drawn to the idea of something with a social mission, but nothing clicked until a friend started Tech Dump. The nonprofit provides skills and career paths for ex-offenders, hiring them to recycle and repurpose surplus electronics and e-waste — the fastest-growing garbage stream in the world.
LaGrange joined in 2013 as director of marketing, then became CEO two years later. The organization has processed 35 million pounds of gadgets and junk since its founding and now employs 71 people. “In addition to the environmental work, it’s the training ground for amazing humans who are often overlooked,” she says. The company spun off a retail outlet, Tech Discounts, in 2016 and hopes to expand throughout the Midwest and add national business partners.
This is the second of a five video profiles we’re launching as a part of the Grist 50 - our annual list of 50 people who are doing cool work in climate and the environment — artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. You can check out the full list here: grist.org/grist-50/2021
#recycling #zerowaste #recycle3 expert tips to spot bullshitGrist2021-03-30 | Bullshit is everywhere. Here’s what you can do about it.
An interview with Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, the writers of the book Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.
#misinformation #callingbullshit #fakenewsThe Year Ahead: American Leadership on ClimateGrist2021-03-26 | Grist sits down with the Biden Administration's White House Climate Advisor for an intimate conversation.This scientist brings lizards to InstagramGrist2021-03-23 | As @AfroHerper, Earyn McGee uses social media to build a more inclusive community by talking biodiversity, justice, climate change, and, above all, lizards. Lots of lizards.
This is the first of a five video profiles we’re launching as a part of the Grist 50 - our annual list of 50 people who are doing cool work in climate and the environment — artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. You can check out the full list here: grist.org/grist-50/2021
McGee's Twitter game #FindThatLizard, featuring pics of herps in hiding, is a smash. Offline she’s a STEM ambassador, introducing middle-school girls to careers in science and nature. Her Ph.D. research includes the impact of climate change on bug-eating lizards and analysis of the barriers discouraging Black women from careers in natural-resource management. As for her next move, post-Ph.D.? Perhaps a natural-history TV show.
#scicomm #lizardsquad #lizardsClimate. Justice. Solutions. Reframing The Climate StoryGrist2021-03-19 | Join Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw, Grist Executive Editor Nikhil Swaminathan, and Fix Director Lisa Garcia for a conversation about Grist's new focus, the climate opportunity in 2021, and how stories can change the climate crisis.The Paris climate agreement, explained (5 years later)Grist2021-01-21 | Here's what that means for the U.S., the world, and climate change.
The United States is rejoining the Paris climate agreement, fulfilling one of President Joe Biden’s earliest campaign promises and generating sighs of relief around the world as governments struggle to keep the planet’s temperature from surging to even more dangerous levels.
#parisagreement #climatechange #paris #parisaccord #emissionsThis tiny model town shows how we could achieve 100% clean energyGrist2021-01-07 | We built this tiny model town to show what it would look like if we tried to transition to 100% clean energy. In the real world, it can be even more difficult. Staff reporter Shannon Osaka wrote about what it really means when cities say they're going '100 percent renewable.' You can find that link here: grist.org/energy/can-a-city-truly-be-100-renewable-its-complicated
Show notes: Thanks for watching! This is a super complex topic and so there's a lot that I didn't get to cover. Below you'll find my sources as well as resources for more information.
Interviews: Dr. Jesse D. Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Princeton University Dr. Leah Stokes, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
#cleanenergy #renewables #renewableenergy #cleanpower #100percentrenewable #wind #solar #hydrogen #nuclear1,000 years of fake meat, in two minutesGrist2020-12-08 | We prepared six faux meat dishes from the past 1,000 years, ranging from mock lamb chops in 965 to the "bleeding" Impossible Burger in 2016. For sources and information, check out our show notes below:
Sources: Vegetarian Goose: “Recipes from the Garden of Contentment” (2018) Translated and Annotated by Dr. Sean J.S. Chen, Based on: Yuan Mei, "Suiyuan Shidan 隨園食單" (1792) Berkshire Publishing
(Award: Best in the World - Translation - Gourmand International 2019)
Translator website: wayoftheeating.wordpress.com
Mock lamb chops reference: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume Six:
Biology and Biological Technology, Part V:
Fermentations and Food Science by H.T. Huang
There was no official recipe for the "Mock lamb chops," as they were simply referred to as tofu. We marinated the tofu in soy sauce and pepper and then grilled them, topping them with cilantro.
#vegetarianfood #vegetarian #vegan #tofurky #impossiblefoods #bocaburgerNet zero climate plans, explainedGrist2020-11-10 | The past year has seen an explosion in the number of companies announcing they are now “net-zero” or “carbon neutral,” or at least plan to be in the next 30 years. Unilever, Uber, and Facebook are just a few of the recent additions to the club, and even major oil companies like BP and Shell say they are on board. If you’re rolling your eyes and thinking this is just the latest PR stunt, you’re not wrong — if you read the fine print, companies have defined those terms for themselves in a number of different, and often not very meaningful, ways. But you’re also not entirely right, because “net-zero” is more specific than “sustainable” or “eco-friendly.” It’s measurable, at least in theory.
Here are 4 ways to tell whether a company’s climate pledge is legit.
#netzero #climatepledge #carbonneutral #climatechange #climate4 years of Trump and climate change, in 8 minutesGrist2020-10-21 | A lot has happened since Donald Trump became president. Here is one presidential term, as told through climate change.
#climate #president #climatechange #vote #climatecrisis #donaldtrumpThe rule increasing city speed limitsGrist2020-10-07 | Speed limits are set by drivers "voting with their feet." That's a problem for everyone else on the street.