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The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming 0
Posted 5 days, 3 hours ago
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.
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.
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
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago
No wonder public and media seem uniformed 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Posted 1 month ago
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.
A video interview with the Yes Men 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 ago
Senate 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.
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.