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Watch a movie, fight mountaintop mining

Host a viewing party for the must-see new film “Coal Country” 2
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago The powerful new documentary “Coal Country” exposes the devastating effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining. See the movie before the general public does by offering to host a viewing party in your home.
EMA, meet Uma

Happy birthday, EMA Awards ... and you other groups, too 0
Posted 2 weeks, 2 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.
Gwyn Some, Lose Some

Does being hot make your green website hot, too? 3
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago We take a peek at a crop of eco-sites started by starlets. Ooh, say that five times fast.
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.
the crude cost of fuel

Two new documentaries—‘Crude’ and ‘Fuel’—examine two sides of our petroleum problem 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Crude and Fuel, two new documentaries, show the damaging effects of the world's addiction to oil, each film from its own unique angle.
Hitting the Green Carpet

Umbra reports from the Age of Stupid premiere 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Umbra Fisk talks with Heather Graham, Moby, Gillian Anderson, and others at the premiere of the year's hottest climate film.
Ask Umbra at the Age of Stupid premiere 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
It's the end of the world and we know it

Climate doomsday film ‘The Age of Stupid’ still hopeful, says director in video interview 9
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The new film The Age of Stupid paints a grim view of the future: In 2055, a man living in a world wrecked by climate change gets pissed off at the people of today who knew they were messing with the climate but failed to do much about it. Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong video-chatted with Grist before the film's U.S. premiere.
earth daze

New film ‘Earth Days’ takes a sometimes devastating look at the history of environmental activism 4
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Robert Stone's new documentary Earth Days chronicles the inspiring rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, and the dispiriting series of missed opportunities that followed.
Meet the star of ‘No Impact Man’: No Impact Woman 3
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Michelle Conlin is the real star of the No Impact Man movie, dragged by her husband into a year of eco-asceticism. The whole arrangement is an elaborate publicity stunt, but it works on the screen.
The Grist List: From Underwear to Underwater

Change the world by changing your underpants, and more 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
We'll be brief: Want to change the world? Start with your underpants.
Horror Show

‘The Cove’ pulls no punches in documenting Japanese dolphin hunt 1
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Early on in The Cove, director Louie Psihoyos describes how he assembled an "Ocean's Eleven"-like team of specialists to infiltrate and expose a secret, brutal, for-profit dolphin-killing operation in Japan.
Update: We're Still Screwed!

‘The Great Squeeze’ joins long list of doomsaying eco-films 3
Posted 3 months ago
The Great Squeeze, a documentary by director Christophe Fauchere (of 2007's film Energy Crossroads), is full of apocalyptic observations, none of which should surprise anyone even vaguely environmentally-minded.
But Wait, There’s More!

Resources and links for the art-hungry 0
Posted 3 months ago
Climate art isn't limited to one-off works -- it's gaining an institutional foothold too. See which groups are taking a broader look at climate through art, and learn where to find even more.
Don't Drink the Water

‘Tapped’ documentary pulls plug on bottled water craze 3
Posted 3 months ago
"Tapped," a new documentary about the bottled water industry from director Stephanie Soechtig and the producers of "Who Killed the Electric Car?", is a pretty damning look at how consumers have been tricked into spending too much money on water packaged in plastic and quite often not as clean as what's available from the faucet.
The Grist List: From Lob to Lorax

That smarts! Dutch pranksters go car-tipping, and more 3
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Forget cow-tipping. Dutch pranksters are all about car-tipping these days, dumping dozens of lightweight Smart cars into Amsterdam's canals. What tossers!
The Grist List: From Diving to Dancing

Hipsters give dumpster diving new meaning, and more 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dumpster diving, as defined by a hipster: exclusive urban swimming hole.
Coal Country film premiere

Big Coal does not want you to see this film 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
As a groundbreaking clean energy counterpart to this summer's extraordinary Food, Inc. documentary on the agribusiness, the long-awaited "Coal Country" film on the cradle-to-grave process of generating our coal-fired electricity will be hitting the theaters this week with the big bang of an ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosive. And Big Coal ain't happy.
The Con is On

The GOP’s Spanish prisoner/professor 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
In prepping for today's House debate on Waxman-Markey, I watched David Mamet's mindbender, The Spanish Prisoner. The movie takes its title from a venerable long-con so complicated that -- I don't care how many times you've seen the film -- 20 minutes in and you'll have no idea who's zoomin' who. It's the perfect choice, because opponents of the climate bill have their very own Spaniard. And, just as in the film, this guy is no prisoner. He's part of the con.
Short Answer: Yes

Quiz: Should I see the critically acclaimed documentary ‘Food, Inc.’? 5
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Food, Inc. is a riveting documentary. Fast-paced and chock full of detail, the film does not shy from shocking, rarely-seen footage. But should YOU, dear reader, go see it? Take our quiz to find out.