The Grist List, 01 June 2007

From Coke to Cockpit 5

  1. Don't let the Gore hit you on the way out

    Dear Al, did you think we wouldn't hear about how you slammed Grist List at your little book signing? Did you think your comments about the "trivialities and nonsense" of celeb goss in the media wouldn't hurt us? We take back everything nice we ever said about you -- you hooker-bottom coke-snorter.

    Photo: Amy Tierney / WireImage.com

  2. We get around

    Scootin' by solar power is sun-sational, and veggie oil's the way to go if you've got a hankerin' for a Hummer. But to be honest, for a really good ride, we prefer to be pushed around.

    Photo: Capt Kim via flickr

  3. They tried to make her go to recycling, she said no, no, no

    If a picture was worth 1,000 words ... we'd be out of a job. But in this case, we haven't much else to say about Brit popster Amy Winehouse's confusion over what to do with her rubbish. Except: Is that what's under her ginormous beehive?

    Photo: Anthony Harvey / WireImage.com

  4. Glow job

    Why stop at faux fur when you can go fer GlowFur?

    Photo: Glowfur.com

  5. Cockpit. Heh heh.

    Recycling may take flight in a major way on a Seattle campus, with a student pavilion made from a 747. Forget the tray tables and seats in the upright position; this space is flexible enough to accommodate multiple positions. We're just not sure you can still call it the mile-high club.

    Photo: Inhabitat.com

Sarah K. Burkhalter is Grist’s assistant managing editor.

Sarah van Schagen is Grist’s Seattle editor.

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  1. rbrumleve Posted 4:17 am
    01 Jun 2007

    al is rightwe do concentrate on society's celebrities too much.  who cares that britney shaved her head?!?  news isn't news anymore.  it's nice to get an update on which celebrities are being green, but i think that mr. gore was refering to the overall trend in news, i didn't see grist's name mentioned anywhere.  we need to stop being so wrapped up in hollywood gossip, and so self indulgent that we don't even pay attention to the real problems that the world and those that inhabit it are facing.
    i love you grist, but stop being so sensitive  :)

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  2. atoney Posted 10:38 am
    01 Jun 2007

    IncestI have been getting more and more fed up with the Grist List.  This last about Al Gore is the limit.  I don't mind you poking fun at Al or anyone else, but there was NOTHING ENVIRONMENTAL about your little blurb in this week's list.  It read more like a sad attempt to put yourself in the center of a story that did not concern you in the least.  Or did Al touch a tender nerve by referring to media fluff and insipidness?  Every link in the (I hesitate to call it a) story was so unrelentingly self-referential that it made me wonder where I started.  Quit trying so hard to make yourself relevant.  Be relevant by reporting new and interesting things of the eco-variety.  

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  3. Pathos Posted 12:30 pm
    01 Jun 2007

    Um...Uh, guys?  I think, when they said Gore was talking about the Grist List, they were, uh... y'know...  Joking.
    Just possibly.

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  4. adventuresinspace Posted 1:17 am
    04 Jun 2007

    confusedi'd have to say - i was a bit confused by the gore comments myself - if it was intended for fun, it didn't come off very well.  
    hope to see some good ol' fun in the next one.

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  5. amc89 Posted 6:24 am
    04 Jun 2007

    GlowFur?Yikes, you got to wonder what kind of horrific chemicals are added to the fur to make it look like that. To say nothing of the mink and fox that are electrocuted or gassed.  Just when you think the fashion world is becoming more in tuned with ethics and greenness.

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