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If you have nothing better to do
The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming 0
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The must-read solutions book by Al Gore 1
Posted 6 days, 4 hours ago
Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, is not just a broad overview of the key strategies for preserving a livable climate -- it's also a truly beautiful book, replete with lush photos and simple but powerful charts. It's the anti-SuperFreakonomics, and it's sure to be widely attacked by the climate deniers and delayers.
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Say It Ain't So, Rupert
Wall Street Journal minimizes global warming in its news coverage 1
Posted 6 days, 22 hours ago In the past, before Rupert Murdoch's $5.6 billion acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, the paper was greatly respected by its peers for its news coverage, even on climate issues. This year that has changed. -
Not just a river in Egypt
Michael Specter’s new book ‘Denialism’ misses its targets 43
Posted 1 week ago
A big-time New Yorker writer has come out with a book denouncing scientific "denialism." Tom Philpott can't believe Michael Specter let climate deniers off the hook--and instead goes after proponents of organic agriculture.
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Why can’t the media tell the difference between an attack on dubious ‘conventional’ wisdom and an attack on genuine scientific wisdom?
Contrarian Chic 0
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No wonder public and media seem uniformed 0
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EMA, meet Uma
Happy birthday, EMA Awards ... and you other groups, too 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
This weekend marks the twentieth annual Environmental Media Association awards -- see who else is celebrating a milestone this year, and vote for which party you'd attend.
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Bumper to Bonkers
For public transportation to survive, we all need to ... drive more? 4
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Could traffic jams convert drivers into subway riders? Are eco-parking garages the key to increasing train use? A look at the inescapable role of the car in our every deliberation, even when that deliberation is how to ditch the car.
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Sustainabull
Ask Umbra on writer’s block 0
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago
A newly minted intern at a consulting firm has been asked to write about sustainability, but is feeling a bit tongue-tied. Umbra guides him through.
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Half-baked
What Gourmet’s critics missed 5
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Gourmet magazine was a pioneer among its glossy peers in making space for a new and fast-growing appetite among American readers: the desire for critical perspectives on the food system.
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The man who confused the NY Times and New Scientist, the man who moved George Will and math-challenged Morano to extreme disinformation
Exclusive interview with Dr. Mojib Latif 0
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No Holds Barred
The Yes Men reveal their next big stunt 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week 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.
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A video interview with the Yes Men 0
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Acres of Apathy
Does anyone still care about “the land”? 25
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
The newest climate anthem features earnest stars bleating that it's time to take a stand -- "for our land." And literally billions of people turn a deaf ear.
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Choice nuggets
Two takes on school lunches, plus other tasty morsels from around the web 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
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The Mean Streets of Journalism
On gaming the political spectrum 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
With the fate of the climate bill depending in part on how it's framed, is the Post doing damage with its easy-peasy political characterizations?
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THE RIGHT MOVE
Washington Post doubles down on fact-free climate denial 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Is there any media outlet that enables global warming denial more effectively than the Washington Post? After today's op-ed from one of the top deniers in the world, the latest in a long line of denial op-eds, you have to wonder. -
Hayward J'Buzzoff
The problem with unspoken assumptions 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Steven Hayward's OpEd in the Wall St. Journal yesterday ("No: Alternatives Simply Too Expensive") really annoyed me the first time I read it.
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A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS
The Climate Post: Climate debates re-emerge after week-long obscurity 4
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks agoSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) turned heads this week when he suggested to reporters that the calendar is so full, a vote on climate change legislation might wait until next year.
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The Contrarian's Dilemma
James McWilliams’ over-hyped and undercooked anti-locavore polemic 15
Posted 2 months ago
In his new book Just Food, the historian James McWilliams lectures local-food activists on why they should learn to love pesticides and food shipped in from across the globe.