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Forget Polar Bears and PPM

Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change 12
Posted 22 hours, 22 minutes ago So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats.
It’s Getting Ha! in Here: Maria Bamford 0
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Just Boo-Cause

Ask Umbra on Halloween treats and costumes 6
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Looking for good eco-handouts for the holiday, or perhaps an inspired climate-themed costume? Umbra has a few tricks (and treats) up her sleeve.
Clip 'n' save

This Halloween, cut flesh for the climate 2
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago Still stumped about how to decorate your place this Halloween? Use Grist's handy pumpkin-carving PDFs to make jack-o'-lanterns that will awe, amaze, and quite possibly confound your friends!
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Protest edition 1
Posted 4 weeks ago On the International Day of Climate Action, get out and tell the world that there's no rhyme or reason to allowing runaway climate change.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Strange bedfellows edition 0
Posted 1 month ago 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.
No Holds Barred

The Yes Men reveal their next big stunt 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago In a video interview with Grist, the high-minded pranksters talk about their successes (and arrest!) during the recent climate week, their new movie, and their hot plans for Copenhagen.
I will SurvivaBall!

SurvivaBall: Your individual climate-change adaptation strategy 3
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago The world's most upstanding corporate citizens, like Halliburton, Monsanto, and ExxonMobil, take climate change seriously. It's a serious opportunity for profit. That's why, in addition to spending millions to perpetuate the energy, environmental, and subsidy policies that sustain their ongoing operations, they've created this "gated community for one" -- the SurvivaBall.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Tck, tck, tck edition 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Oh climate week, with all your earnest stars and flash mobbery and noncommittal world leaders! We hardly knew ye.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Shush edition 1
Posted 2 months ago
Are U.S. climate convictions crumbling? And what's with all those spokesmen mumbling? An ode to good intentions and global confusion.
no more playing hooky

Will a greener White House complex mean a more productive president? 0
Posted 2 months ago
A study released this week says employees in greener buildings are more productive, just as news spreads that the White House complex is seeking LEED certification. What does this bode for Obama? And will he have to sneak smokes under the portico?
Caveman congressman attacks—watch out, solar family 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Cash for cukes edition 0
Posted 3 months ago
Could the White House farm stand be an important tool in the climate fight?
Ask Umbra’s Bee Hugs 3
Posted 3 months ago
Meet power rock and his sidekick spurt

Coal coloring book teaches kids all about dirty energy 8
Posted 3 months ago
We found a terrible children's coloring book made by a coal-industry group. Let’s have a look!
Bill McKibben talks climate on Colbert Report 1
Posted 3 months ago
Bill McKibben took a turn on The Colbert Report Monday night to talk climate change and spread the word about the International Day of Climate Action on Oct. 24.
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Tween-pop edition 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Could Miley Cyrus be our climate salvation? The mind reels.
Notable quotable

How Barack Obama is like Marvin Gaye 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
EPA chief Lisa Jackson draws the comparison.
Define 'clunker'

Cash for ... other things! 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
So Congress approved and President Obama signed an extension of the hugely popular (and not-really-so-green) cash-for-clunkers program. Woohoo! We can think of some better "Cash for ..." programs the government should be funding ...
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Blank(enship) verse edition 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Could Big Coal CEO Don Blankenship be a poet at heart? Why yes, if Twitter is any indication. We rework his heated words into haikus.