Living Green

EMA, meet Uma

Happy birthday, EMA Awards ... and you other groups, too 0
Posted 1 month ago By Katharine Wroth This weekend marks the twentieth annual Environmental Media Association awards -- see who else is celebrating a milestone this year, and vote for which party you'd attend.
the rhymes they are a-changin'

Eve of Destruction (New Millennium) 5
Posted 1 month ago By Ken Ward As a rallying cry for this weekend's Day of Climate Action, veteran activist Ken Ward rewrote a classic tune -- see him perform it with partner Andrée Zaleska here.
Nothing like a good profit motive to accelerate public policy

Performance anxiety 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Terry Tamminen It’s not just the ads showing a baby-boomer couple sitting in matching bathtubs on a beach at sunset where you can find performance anxiety these days. Try looking in the hardware aisle and at the gas station.
Interns saving the world

Climate Corps interns save Fortune 500 firms $54 million 4
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Todd Woody MBA students from the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps identified energy efficiency measures that will save an estimated $54 million at Dell, eBay and 20 other Fortune 500 companies.
Can't you Hear me noggin

Ask Umbra on bike helmets 12
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Umbra Fisk When a cyclist wonders about the impact of her discarded helmets on the planet, Umbra suggests that she shift gears.
Sustainabull

Ask Umbra on writer’s block 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Umbra Fisk A newly minted intern at a consulting firm has been asked to write about sustainability, but is feeling a bit tongue-tied. Umbra guides him through.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Strange bedfellows edition 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Katharine Wroth With Lindsey Graham throwing his support behind a senate climate bill, some conservatives are asking why he hopped in bed with the enemy. Which is shortsighted! Not to mention, it forces us to picture John Kerry naked. Wrote a poem about it.
Infrared, Schminfrared

4.5 things I learned at my energy audit 8
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Katharine Wroth I finally took the plunge after years of blithely telling Grist readers to "get an energy audit" -- so what was it like?
Beware of 'BAD' puns

Bloggers of all stripes grab a piece of the climate pie for Blog Action Day 2009 7
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago By Ashley Braun The theme of this year's Blog Action Day is near and dear to Grist: climate change. Since we write about the issue a fair bit ourselves (OK, incessantly and obsessively), we looked for hot posts in unexpected places. See who surprised us.
We Will All Go Down Together

Ask Umbra on climate weapons 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago By Umbra Fisk It's great that some people want to buy carbon offsets, says Umbra -- but it won't get the job done. Here's her advice on making bigger, better change.