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  I'm not going to weigh in on the redesign, but...but...where are the punny article titles? That was my favorite part of the whole thing!

  On Welcome to the new Grist! posted 7 months ago 106 Responses

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  Milk Prices

  Recently I noticed a small sign at the Price Chopper near my house. It said something like, "We apologize for the increasing milk-product prices, which are due to an unprecidented rise in supplier costs. We are working to keep our prices as low as possible." Your statistics about the cost of milk at Freddy's vs. milk at an organic food store made me wonder what caused the huge difference in prices, and what was making the prices of even Freddy's-like stores increase too.

  ...Are the cows demanding more pay or something?

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  On How much do Americans pay for essentials? posted 3 years, 3 months ago 3 Responses

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  Milk Prices

  Recently I noticed a small sign at the Price Chopper near my house. It said something like, "We apologize for the increasing milk-product prices, which are due to an unprecidented rise in supplier costs. We are working to keep our prices as low as possible." Your statistics about the cost of milk at Freddy's vs. milk at an organic food store made me wonder what caused the huge difference in prices, and what was making the prices of even Freddy's-like stores increase too.

  ...Are the cows demanding more pay or something?On Stats on how much Americans pay for essentials posted 3 years, 3 months ago 3 Responses

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  Alas and Alack for Lost Opportunities

  What about the whole "deep ecology" movement where people talk about being "plain citizens" of the natural world? I don't hear any of them speaking up here to say that they've wept bitter tears over the loss of a worldful of species millions of years ago.

  I also wonder if part of the hardness-of-heart you observe is the fact that it's done. There's no getting the trilobites back; they're fossils now. We have all these present concerns and living animals to worry about (the argument could go), so why worry ourselves with long-dead animals? I'm asking here whether a person's lack of sorrow over dead dinos is really a good indicator of his/her motivation for trying to save the environment. It may not be totally anthropocentric, just biocentric towards living creatures as opposed to long-dead ones.

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  On An environmentalism about human survival posted 3 years, 6 months ago 7 Responses

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  Less Scrubbing for Turbine-Blade Cleaners

  It's too bad about the wind turbines. But at least that spares all the birdies who would certainly have flown into them!On WTC as a case study in urban development posted 4 years, 4 months ago 9 Responses