Word spy credits coinage of this expression to Michael Fischer, then executive director of the Sierra Club, but I protest. I wrote a chapter in The Environmental Handbook, published for the first Earth Day in 1970, titled: "Ecopornography, or how to spot an ecological phony." It was a discussion of ads by various corporations that amount to greenwash, still a commonplace.

While the English language is not always a bowl of cherries, we native English-speakers should be grateful for the flexibility with which we can mix-and-match elements of different words.

Of course, one still needs a bit of context to figure out what the new combinations mean.  E.g., watching that lively fellow with the scruffy chin and the cheery smile enjoy his "eco-porn" turns out to be not nearly so interesting a prospect as one might have thought originally.

But "not-so-eco-doodad" is a gem.  And to think, a Grist writer came up with it!

On the other hand, "econolomics" is monstrous.  Is that supposed to be a shuffling of "ecology" and "economics"?  Well, let us hope that that chimera has a very short life.

On another note, in the blurb on eco-elves, what is "doing the world a solid" supposed to mean?

As for "eco-Christ Child," some of us would say that that is a bit redundant, seeing how he invented the whole idea in the first place.

Echo and Bunnymen tour back in 2001.

Totally green, if you count the number of underage cocktail drinkers puking in the alley.

Quote from Organic Consumers Org:  
In the past 12 months, the global corn price has doubled.
Because corn is the most common animal feed, this affects the price of milk, cheese, eggs, meat, as well as corn-based sweeteners and cereals.
In the U.S., milk prices have nearly doubled.
Butter prices in Europe have spiked by 40%.
Pork prices in China are up 20%.
In Mexico there have been riots in response to a 60% rise in the cost of tortillas.
In six of the past seven years, global grain consumption has exceeded production. As a result world grain reserves have dwindled to 57 days. This is the lowest level of grain reserves in 34 years.
While the UN lists 34 countries as needing food aid, 30% of next year's grain harvest in the U.S. will be converted to ethanol to fuel cars.

Well, what that says to me is that this is yet another devious method of the US to force the rest of the underdeveloped world to "choose" GM foods provided by the US in preference to their own or ungeneticly modified food.  

Current reading lead us to believe that many areas are and will continue to face water scaricity.  Leading to growing food shortages.  More crises in war among populated starving countries.  And what we are offering the same GM modified rice, corn, etc that was turned down in a previous African famine.  

There is no sufficient reason for the US gov to provide subsidises for ethnol/corn when the most provident approach to alternative fuels would be to use a grass/prenennial grain, ect.  

Sadly, after reading Zbignew B book on our "Second Chance" it seems to me that we had had our second and third chance.

First Posting: GreenGrid. Has anyone had direct experience with this firm and its products? It is basically three products for making flat rooftops in cities "green," with modular components.
They use recycled materials, including tires, to provide planting
units of three depths, a special developed "soil" and specially selected and grown plants suitable for dry conditions expected on urban roof tops.

Chicago recently mandated flat roofs to become "green." Apples
main store recently added a GreenGrid system.

I have not been able to contact anyone with experience with the
products and firm. It seems like a good idea and I have a flat roof.
Payback seem good as roof temperatures are much lower, UV and IR rays that shorten rooftop life are reduced. Areas not covered by plant modules are covered by pavers made of recycled tires. Oxygen in the urban scape is also cited as a benefit and reduction of heating and cooling loads of a cooler/warmer roof than a roof without the GreenGrid.

Thanks GRIST! I appreciate knowing who the 15 greenest entertainers are so I can stop buying any of their music and stop going to their concerts.  I'm saddened to see the BNL have signed onto the environmetal crapwagon, but hey, they suck nowadays anyway. . . is "nowadays" a word?  dunno . . . anyway, keep up the great work - weeding these folks out of the genepool of musicians will help us all.  BTW - isn't Willie like 1,000 years old?  You sure he's still alive?  If so, must be the ganja and the IRS that keeps him living - gotta smoke that weed and pay those taxes!  Great Amercian too.    

Lipids are nonpolar hydrocarbons that comes in various forms such as adipose, waxes and oils typically found in organic matter and organisms that died for our sins and may lie as a grease spot on the road somewhere. Their purposes are many and we flourish toward the carrying capacity of our host, the earth, as in the Gaia Theory.

The aspects of Global warming being masked by Global dimming seems a paradox of near Biblical proportions or at least prophetic in nature. However, the thought or method is now more lucid and it appears that as we suck up and burn the fossil fuels or oils left behind by our organism friends of eons past, it would seem that the characterisic of adipose is for insulation and stored energy for for endotherms at least.

Could it be that the skinny person gets colder than the larger one? It would seem that as we in the Gaia proposal-which -by the way is true-yuk yuk-then it would seem that the combined effects of our seeming climatic changes of late are similar to the ones that caused the great drought and famines in Ethiopia several years ago and these same changes, or at least very similar ones, are now being caused from China's industrial boom as we had in the 6o's. These seem to indicate etiologies for the climatic changes just pointed to?
Additionally, the possibility of the liposuction of the earth, as I referred to it in a simple experiment this past spring, about the hypothetical questioning of the vast removal of the hydrocarbons as in an analogous liposuctioning from the earth that leaves the Earth with less insulation and abilities to maintain the core temperature of our host with the possible effect of it cooling faster and losing heat from it via the crust and its heat being released into the atmosphere as well perhaps causing El ninos etc.

Is a skinny earth such a good thing?