Corey McKrill’s Posts

• Energy policy: a good opening hook?

  Senate candidate shows energy policy promise; rocks at parties 1

  Posted 1 year, 7 months ago

  Oregonian candidate for U.S. Senate Steve Novick seems refreshingly up on energy issues:

  But is he electable? Well, they say Bush got votes because people perceived him as a guy they could relax and have a beer with:

• Getting a jump on waterfront property speculation

  Use Google Maps to simulate rising sea levels anywhere in the world 4

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  One of the most memorable scenes in An Inconvenient Truth is when Al Gore makes the sea level rise 20 feet and inundate various low-lying regions of the world, including Manhattan and Florida. It was suitably squirm-inducing, especially if the viewer happened to live in one of the areas shown. For the rest of us, or at least for me, however, the lingering question has been, "what would it look like where I live?" Now, thanks to Google's mapping API and the ingenuity of one Alex Tingle, we have Flood Maps, where you can view any part… Read More

• Bird's eye spew

  Before and after shots of mountaintop-removal in Google Earth. 1

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  Back in January, Grist's InterActivist column featured John Amos, the head of SkyTruth. SkyTruth uses satellite photos and digital mapping technologies to reveal what is difficult to see from the highway: just how exactly we're changing our planet. Seeing a clearcut or a mine from a bird's-eye perspective often adds a visceral dimension to an otherwise rather abstract-seeming issue.

  One especially useful application for this sort of imagery: showing the extent of the havoc wrought by companies doing mountaintop-removal mining. Recently a coalition of Appalachian grassroots organizations, ILoveMountains.org, released a series of… Read More

• Hippies and rednecks unite!

  College field program shows there's more to citizenship than going to the polls. 1

  Posted 3 years ago

  Take a break from freaking out about the election and listen to this NPR audio clip about Whitman College's Semester in the West program. It's a biennial, semester-long environmental studies field course, with a heavy emphasis on public lands issues. If you have any passion about environmental issues, traveling, and/or camping, I guarantee this will make you want to go back to school.

  (Grist featured Phil Brick, the professor in the story, as an InterActivist back in October 2005.)

  I myself am an alumni of the program, and I'd say the audio clip… Read More

• Animal terrorism 4

  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  First there was the pack of squirrels that attacked and killed a dog in Russia. Now there's a group of "urban" raccoons taking out house cats in Olympia, WA. Apparently they even managed to carry off a small dog, although it survived the encounter.

  What's next? Serpents that infest a jet airliner and viciously attack the passengers with poison fangs? (Woops, didn't mean to spoil any movie plots ...)

  In other news, a Celebrity Cruises ship arrived in Seward, Alaska, last weekend with a dead humpback whale pinned to the bow.

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  The real question here is ...

  ... what does His Noodliness the Flying Spaghetti Monster think of this new development?

  Frequently asked technical questions about Grist's newsletters and website.

  On A new low-carbon (if not low-carb) way to cook the Italian staple posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago 7 Responses

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  Assist the retailer in being socially progressive

  since you know they won't do it on their own.  Buy something that you can donate to a good cause.  Canned goods for the food bank.  Clothing for a homeless shelter.

  If you buy something that you can hand to people on the street, you'll get the personal satisfaction of watching their eyes light up when you give it to them.On Umbra on gift cards posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 10 Responses

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  Ahem

  Here's a Sustainable MBA program right here in Seattle, for starters:
  Bainbridge Graduate InstituteOn A review of Joel Makower's Strategies for the Green Economy posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  Progressives deny science when ...

  ... it's funded by a corporation and leads to policies favoring a related industry.

  But a lot of that stuff can hardly be called science anyway.

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  On Palin's climate skepticism is irrelevant posted 1 year, 1 month ago 39 Responses

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  In the last eight years,

  it's probably the truest thing he's said.

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  On We're number one! posted 1 year, 4 months ago 8 Responses