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Ask Umbra on Halloween treats and costumes 6
Posted 1 week, 4 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 1 week, 4 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 2 weeks, 1 day 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 3 weeks, 1 day 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 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, 1 week 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, 1 week 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 1 month, 2 weeks 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 1 month, 2 weeks 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, 1 week ago
It Could Be Verse

Climate-news poem: Cash for cukes edition 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Could the White House farm stand be an important tool in the climate fight?
Ask Umbra’s Bee Hugs 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Meet power rock and his sidekick spurt

Coal coloring book teaches kids all about dirty energy 8
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks 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 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Could Miley Cyrus be our climate salvation? The mind reels.
Notable quotable

How Barack Obama is like Marvin Gaye 3
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
EPA chief Lisa Jackson draws the comparison.
Define 'clunker'

Cash for ... other things! 3
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks 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 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.
Micture This

Peeing in the shower goes, um, viral 7
Posted 3 months ago
As news hits of an ad campaign in Brazil aimed at convincing pee-ple to pee in the shower, Umbra revisits her advice on the very same topic.
From the astroturfing files

What if climate groups copied dirty industry tactics…? 2
Posted 3 months ago
If Big Coal or Big Oil can pay to generate fake grassroots opposition to climate and energy legislation, couldn't green groups flip the tables and do the same?