Sarah K. Burkhalter’s Posts

• The Grist List, 30 Jan 2009

  From Chia to Chard 2

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

  1. Chia leader

     

     The grass is always greener on the other side of the Atlantic. And speaking of decorative planters: It's O-O-O-bama!

  2. She's a poet and didn't gnaw it

     

     Two buses diverged on a road, and I / I bit the driver of the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference.

  3. A cow by any udder name

     Cows with names make more milk, says a new study.… Read More

• The Grist List, 16 Jan 2009

  From President to Pep 0

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

  1. Yes, we garbage can

     This week, someone with designs on the future will take the old and broken and turn it shiny and new. We speak, of course, of Nancy Judd. But we've got high hopes for that other guy, too.

     

     Photo: Katie Maccauly

• The Grist List, 09 Jan 2009

  From Smoke to Sass 1

  Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago

  1. Smokin' hot

     Does this dress make my butt look recycled?

     

• The Grist List, 19 Dec 2008

  The Best of Grist List 2008 0

  Posted 11 months ago

  1. Or are you just soapy to see me?

     Man Junk: "A line of organic shampoos for the discriminating scrotum." Members only, please.

     

  2. Eat your hat

     Tried to go whole hog, but still have leftovers? Haberdash over to this site to save your bacon. Because "one always looks neat, in a hat made from meat."

     

  3. Elephant out of room

     Hey Ranger, Coming 2 town. Meet 4 drink @ Babar? Got junk n the trunk,… Read More

• The Grist List, 12 Dec 2008

  From Carols to Condoms 0

  Posted 11 months, 1 week ago

  1. Jingle bells, clean coal smells

     Click here. Discover wintry-clothed, googly-eyed coal carolers. Hear frosty lyrics like "There must have been some magic in clean coal technology, for when they looked for pollutants there was nearly none to see." Vomit. Repeat.

     

  2. Buckling under pressure

     On the heels of the economic downturn, seems NatPo's vegan Mary Janes have been shoe'd off the market. Was she a victim of ecoflation or was the priceyness just a step in the wrong direction? (Hey, if… Read More

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  It is a good overall point, greennoodle. Instead of delving into deeper questions re: sexism at 4:30 on a Friday, I shall merely direct you to a half-naked man: http://www.grist.org/article/the-grist-list-24-oct-2008 :)On Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change posted 1 hour, 27 minutes ago 13 Responses

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  Hi Sindark

  The cut/copy/paste buttons in the WYSIWYG have always disliked Firefox, but using CTRL-X, CTRL-C, and CTRL-V should work just fine.
  
  Cheers,
  Sarah

  On Steven Chu and cap-and-snooze on the Daily Show posted 4 months ago 4 Responses

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  This has been blown out of proportion

  I find the "environmentalists do this and environmentalists don't do that" blanket statement ridiculous. "Environmentalist" is a self-identification.

  I happen to be a vegetarian. If somebody who was a vegan told me that she perceived my egg-eating as inconsistent with her view of environmentalism: fine. Then we could have a discussion about why I live and eat the way I do, and why she lives and eats the way she does.

  But if she came in and said "you obviously aren't an environmentalist, you egg-eater you" that would piss me off. Who are you to tell me that my self-identification is wrong? The very idea of someone else mandating how you see yourself is ludicrous.

  No wonder everybody's so pissed off. Imposing your agenda on someone is no way to sway them to your side, or even to get them to respectfully disagree with your point of view. This issue wouldn't be nearly so divisive if we were all a tad more open-minded: willing to let go of the idea that our own way of doing things is the Only Right Way.
  On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 2 months ago 208 Responses

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  unfortunately ...

  Harding didn't have wilderness on his mind:

  The NPR-A was created by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 as "Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4" during a time when the United States was converting its navy to run on oil rather than coal.

  On BLM offers yet another plan for drilling on Alaska's sensitive North Slope posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 Responses

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  I also disagree

  No one is "homeless by choice." And as much as our culture lauds pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps, our bureaucratic infrastructure often makes such a thing incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

  No doubt some people make better decisions than others. But oft-mentally-ill, oft-struggling-with-addiction, oft-having-made-bad-decisions, oft-looked-down-on-by-the-more-fortunate people are still people.On So That's What Those Trains Are For posted 2 years, 3 months ago 8 Responses