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Cast your vote for the best climate journalism 0
Posted 13 hours, 35 minutes ago The good people at the Earth Journalism Awards have singled out 15 examples of the best reporting on climate and energy issues. They'd like you to cast your vote for the best of the best.
Forget Polar Bears and PPM

Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change 14
Posted 1 day, 6 hours 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.
Nobody knows nothin'

Reflecting on the lameness of my profession 9
Posted 2 days ago For the past few weeks there has been a flood of news about the Copenhagen climate talks and the clean energy bill in the U.S. Senate. Standing in that flood it's easy to get caught up in the atmospherics of frantic action and constant crisis. But step out for a while and it becomes clear just how much of the "news" consists of people who don't really know anything guessing: what things mean, who's thinking what, what the future holds.
Choice nuggets

Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 3
Posted 2 days, 4 hours ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
“She somehow accomplished all this with a degree from Yale in … literature.”

Superfreakonomics coauthor replies to “scathing review” 0
Posted 4 days, 16 hours ago
Media stunner

Newsweek partners with oil lobby to raise ad cash 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago Newsweek to host energy and climate events with lawmakers -- while publishing the uber-greenwashing story, “Big Oil Goes Green for Real.”
Is Superfreakonomics author Levitt again denying the ‘unequivocal’ scientific evidence for global warming?

More Superfreakonomics climate change denial? 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago
You can do better than “carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas thought to contribute to global climate change.”

Memo to PBS’s NewsHour: You can do better than that 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago So Joseph Romm is watching an otherwise interesting story on “efforts to convert algae into clean fuel,” by the otherwise very solid Tom Bearden of PBS’s NewsHour. Then, boom, he drops the media’s favorite wishy-washy hedge.
If you have nothing better to do

The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago
The must-read solutions book by Al Gore 1
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days 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 2 weeks, 5 days 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 49
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days 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 3 weeks ago
No wonder public and media seem uniformed 0
Posted 4 weeks ago
EMA, meet Uma

Happy birthday, EMA Awards ... and you other groups, too 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month, 1 week 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, 2 weeks ago
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.