Articles by Jonathan Hiskes

Jonathan Hiskes is a writer in Seattle and a former Grist staff reporter. Find him at jonathanhiskes.com and on Twitter.

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Mosque near Ground Zero will be greenest in the nation

The Cordoba House in lower Manhattan will be the nation's first "green" LEED-certified mosque, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin reports at Daily Beast.

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‘Shadow a Senator’ climate push draws inspiration from Tea-Party town halls

Remember those chaotic town hall meetings last summer with irate Tea Partiers confronting Congress members about death panels and socialized medicine? A coalition of activist-oriented green groups are drawing inspiration from those town-hall scenes in a new push to force senators to answer for their failure to pass clean-energy legislation.

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Breaking: The Onion is funny

What's the only thing worse than an oil spill? A non-spill. "Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe," The Onion reports.

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Barack Obama, cleantech venture capitalist?

Mike Dorning of Bloomberg Businessweek has a clever way of looking at the nation's most powerful cleantech investor.

Jonathan Hiskes Politics