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From Booze to Boos

30 Nov 2007

They've got the Labatt blues

Dear Canada, if you care at all about the earth, you'll get rid of all your beer fridges. And if you care at all about peaceful international relations, you'll send your surplus booze our way. Love, America.

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Razing Arizona

An Arizona real estate developer can't fathom raising his kids where they can't surf, kayak, and scuba dive. So he's ~~moving to the coast~~ building a 125-acre water park in the middle of the desert. Cowabunga, dud.

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No child left sober

Johnnie Walker, Cutty Sark, The Glenlivet ... they're as good as woolen mittens when it comes to warming a chill. Wait, did we say "chill"? We meant child.

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Bum deal

Question: If biodiesel smells like french fries, what exactly does dirty-diaper diesel smell like?

As the Crow tries

All we wanna do is find an eco-song that doesn't suck. Is Sheryl Crow's new single strong enough, or will it be our favorite mistake? If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.

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Sarah van Schagen is Grist's assistant editor.

Sarah K. Burkhalter is Grist's editorial assistant.

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Good environmental songs

How about Indigo Girls' "Perfect World"?

by jmadosky at 3:44 PM on 01 Dec 2007

cheryl squawk...

I'm sorry...there's nothing this crow has done that doesn't suck...

NJD

by ndunne at 12:42 AM on 02 Dec 2007

Perfect eco-song

Hymn to Her by the Pretenders

An ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk. -Vivekananda

by karenc at 11:19 AM on 02 Dec 2007

eco songs

dear list editors,
perhaps if y'all actually participated in the grassroots environmental movment, y'all might be able to discuss "eco-songs" a tad more seriously.

There a bunch of singer-songwriters out there who have a wide body of "eco-songs" that decidedly don't suck and in fact have inspired a lot of us to action.

now y'all can say what you want about Pop "eco-songs" and their merits (or lack thereof), but don't trash the whole category just because y'all have not had the pleasure of hangin' 'round the campfire singin' along to Dana Lyon's "Drop of Water" or Casey Neil's "Dancing on the Ruins." These are songs that are not on the top 40 list but continue to be played at eco-gatherings everywhere by others long after the artists introduced them.

by johnthetreehugger at 1:38 PM on 02 Dec 2007

bruce cockburn - a tree falls

Going back a few years...

This is an "eco-song" with real credentials...i.e. not written by some opportunistic media slag...

It's bloody good music too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CibAuvZM4

Not sure about the Cockburn wardrobe, though.

NJD

by ndunne at 2:28 AM on 03 Dec 2007

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