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The Locavore's Dilemma Why Paul Roberts' End of Food deserves to be digested by policy makers and local-food activists alike	Tom Philpott	08 Aug 2008	Victual Reality
In the Middle East, water-poor nations are using petrol profits to buy farmland in economically depressed countries like Pakistan and Sudan. China, with its own farmland under pressure from development and pollution, is using some of its vast export income to snap up land in Africa and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, Brazil -- the globe's emergin ...
Topics: agriculture, books, food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

For-profit, common good Using the power of business for people and planet	Erik Hoffner	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There are two critiques of Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken's book on the enormous scope of the worldwide grassroots movements for change, that I'm interested in, one being the notion that the fact that there are millions of grassroots groups at work all over the world providing basic services, fighting for justice, and improving the lot of the planet is not necessarily something to celebrate. Rather, it signifies the failure of modern society to pursue the common good. Fair ...
Topics: books, business, grassroots activism, green living (all these topics)

Eric Roston on Colbert	Lisa Hymas	04 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Eric Roston, author of The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat, tells Stephen Colbert all about his favorite element:
Topics: books, climate, video (all these topics)

Barren Spring Author Claire Hope Cummings dishes the dirt on genetically modified food	Bonnie Azab Powell	01 Aug 2008	Grist Feature
One of the most encouraging things about the sustainable-food movement is how effortlessly it crosses traditional political-party, religious, ethnic, and other lines. The right to good, clean, and fair food, to borrow Slow Food's shorthand, seems to unite people who'd never otherwise find themselves chatting at the same party: Home schoolers and dreadlocked hippies, libertaria ...
Topics: agriculture, books, food, GMOs, interview (all these topics)

Book review: Caffeinated reads Javatrekker and <em	Michael Hebberoy	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When I jumped on a plane one year ago and headed off to Guatemala with Seattle-based coffee roaster Caffé Vita, there was little more than the occasional blog post telling 'the story behind coffee.' The majority of the writing about coffee I could find was focused on the history of the bean-like-seed: stories of cunning Dutch merchants, over-caffeinated whirling dervishes, and besieged Austrians, but nothing talking about the places and people that presently grow th ...
Topics: books, food, green living, Guatemala, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Water on the Brain Author Elizabeth Royte chats about the bottled-water boom and backlash	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Elizabeth Royte. Photo: Rod Morrison Journalist Elizabeth Royte drinks tap water, but she spends a lot of time thinking about the bottled kind. In her new book, Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte investigates the causes and consequences of the bottled-water industry's astounding growth. With her refillable water bottle in hand, Royte travels t ...
Topics: advertising, books, business, consumerism (all these topics)

Sachs Education Jeffrey Sachs, economist and eco-problem solver, chats about his plans to save the world	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Jeffrey Sachs speaks at the University of North Carolina. Photo: Kevin Tsui Jeffrey Sachs -- the renowned economist who devised a grand plan in 2005 to rid the world of poverty -- is now focused on an even broader ambition: saving the planet and all of us who call it home. His new book, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, explores the crises ...
Topics: books, climate, environmental movement, international politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Act Your Page Should you add the latest green-living books to your library?	Holly Richmond	03 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
It's easy writing green, or so this year's deluge of eco-tippy books would indicate. But are any of the latest feel-good, change-a-light-bulb tomes decent? No doubt our own volume, Wake Up and Smell the Planet, is still No. 1 on your toilet tank -- but we thought we'd take a look at how the recent entries stack up, from the titillating to the downright doorstop-worthy. Going Green: A Wise ...
Topics: advice, books, consumerism, ecological footprint, green living, shopping (all these topics)

Good Home Cooking How author Betsy Block convinced her finicky family to mend their dietary ways	Roz Cummins	03 Jul 2008	'Tis the Season
In her new book The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World, Betsy Block writes compellingly about trying to feed one's family and oneself in a nutritious, sustainable, economical, and harmonious way -- and dealing with various likes and dislikes within the family dining unit. Betsy Block Photo: Andrew Pockrose I imagine reviewers will liken the expe ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, parenting, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Take a Page Out of My Book Seven green leaders reveal their favorite reads	Michelle Nijhuis	03 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bad books bite. Photo: margolove Which books and magazines are tempting today's environmental movers and shakers to keep the CFLs burning late into the night? Grist asked seven movement leaders for their recommended reads. (Been burning the night oil yourself? Add your own favorite reads in the comments section below.) Van Jones. Van Jones Founding pre ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, green living (all these topics)

Macaws and Effect An interview with author Bruce Barcott	Michelle Nijhuis	02 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Bruce Barcott. In his new non-fiction book Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, environmental journalist Bruce Barcott follows Sharon Matola -- a former Air Force survival specialist and circus-tiger trainer turned zookeeper -- as she fights the construction of a hydropower dam in her adopted country of Belize, and attempts to save the nesting site of the country's last scarlet macaws. During her years of ba ...
Topics: Belize, books, grassroots activism, green living, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

Let's Talk About You and Me An interview with Bonk author Mary Roach	Michelle Nijhuis	01 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Photo: cybertoad Ah, sex. Source of carnal bliss, domestic harmony, cute infants ... and global population problems. (Oh, environmentalists are such killjoys.) Overpopulation aside for the moment, sex is fundamental to humanity, and to the rest of the natural world -- and besides, it's a dang fascinating subject, as Mary Roach found out while researching her new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of ...
Topics: books, green living, interview, scientific research, sex (all these topics)

Textbook case New edition of AP American Government book retains false information about climate change	Kate Sheppard	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Back in April, we reported that the American Government textbook in use in classrooms across the country implies that the cause of climate change is in doubt, and that global warming could even be a net benefit for the planet and all who dwell upon it. At the time, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt assured concerned citizens that this was merely a flaw in older editions of the book, and that they 'will be working with the authors to evaluate in detail the criti ...
Topics: books, climate change skepticism, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Sea, Smoke, and the Grape Three guidebooks for a dream vacation at your dining-room table	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Eat your way around the world, without leaving home. If you had to choose one place in the world to go for a summer break, where would it be? For me, it would be a place I stayed once in Puglia, at the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, my friends and I spent a week at an agriturismo operation -- a working organic olive farm that doubled as a kind of low-key rural hotel. Our quart ...
Topics: books, food, green living, recipes, travel (all these topics)

Cover the Waterfront 15 green books you can actually read at the beach	Michelle Nijhuis	30 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
Green books that are fun to read? What a novel idea. So maybe you'll finally have a chance to catch up on some reading this summer. But so many of those books about the environment seem kind of ... well, homework-y. What's a vacationing enviro to do? Turn to Grist for advice, of course! Here are 15 recent page-turners just perfect for stuffing in your hemp beach tote. Got sunny-day suggestio ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, lists, wilderness (all these topics)

James and the Giant Breach An interview with author James Howard Kunstler	Michelle Nijhuis	30 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
James Howard Kunstler. Photo: from the documentary Subdivided Author and social critic James Howard Kunstler, known for predicting our post-peak-oil future in nonfiction works such as The Long Emergency, has also brought his forecasts to life through fiction. His newest novel, World Made By Hand, describes the near future in a small town in upstate New York -- not unlike the place Kunstler ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, interview (all these topics)

Tree-free MP3 players and digital Science	biodiversivist	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'm climbing up the audiobook learning curve and would like to share what I've learned. My first post on this topic can be found here. I was experimenting with the cheapest MP3 player I could find that would play free audiobooks from a library. Apple's iPods will not allow you to listen to free audiobooks. First lesson learned: Do not use the cheap players. I have purchased four of the low end products made by Coby, starting with the cheapest and moving up the line ...
Topics: books, ecological footprint, magazines, tech (all these topics)

Shop, Girl Can your pocketbook save the planet? The author of Big Green Purse says yes	Sarah van Schagen	20 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
Diane MacEachern. Mary Poppins may have had a giant carpetbag from which she could pull coat racks and potted plants. But author Diane MacEachern has something even better: A big, green purse that, she says, carries the power to influence the marketplace to "create a cleaner, greener world." The concept behind MacEachern's book Big Green Purse is built on the fact ...
Topics: books, green living, interview, shopping (all these topics)

Ne Gus ultra Gus Speth chats about his new book and increasingly radical green views	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Gus Speth. When Gus Speth gets radical, it's time to start digging bunkers. For more than 30 years, Speth has labored as the consummate environmental insider, having founded an environmental think tank (World Resources Institute), co-founded a major green group (Natural Resources Defense Council), advised a president (Clinton), administered a United Nations agency (U.N. Development Program), and taught in the high echelons of American academia (Georgeto ...
Topics: books, climate, economy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, interview (all these topics)

A new part of the No Duh curriculum Peer-reviewed study finds that right-wing think tanks have stymied environmental progress	David Roberts	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
To file under 'academic demonstration of what we already knew,' here's an abstract from a new paper in the journal Environmental Politics: Environmental scepticism denies the seriousness of environmental problems, and self-professed 'sceptics' claim to be unbiased analysts combating 'junk science.' This study quantitatively analyses 141 English-language environmentally sceptical books published between 1972 and 2005. We find that over 92 per cent of these books, mos ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, messaging (all these topics)

Atoning for a carbon footprint? Ian McEwan writing a novel about climate change -- with funniness!	Lisa Hymas	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ian McEwan. Photo: Eamon McCabe Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan, now best known for Atonement, is at work on a new novel about climate change that will include 'extended comic stretches,' The Guardian reports. The unnamed work isn't due out for another two years, but McEwan read an excerpt to an audience in Wales on Sunday. The protagonist of the forthcoming novel is Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard, who aspires to save the planet, ...
Topics: books, green living, climate, gossip (all these topics)

Train of thought Rail and the coming changes in transport	Erik Hoffner	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
National Train Day was marked this year on May 10, so it's not too incredibly late to mention two new books of note: John Stilgoe's Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape that came out in the fall says that rail is 'an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States.' Maybe that's a little grand, but rail is definitely on the ascendancy, since it can move people and freight at a fraction of the energy usage vs. ...
Topics: books, energy, holiday, oil, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Coal: looks kinda hot, but only because America is wearing beer goggles Heinberg raises doubts about coal reserves	David Roberts	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Energy analyst Richard Heinberg is working on a book about coal, tentatively titled Coal's Future/Earth's Fate, to be published by Post Carbon Press in spring 2009. It's sure to be vital reading for anyone interested in tracking, understanding, and battling the enemy of the human race. Happily, Heinberg is publishing working drafts of various parts of the book on his website. A few months ago he ran the introduction: 'The Great Coal Rush (and Why It Will Fail).' This ...
Topics: books, carbon sequestration, coal, energy, fossil fuels (all these topics)

Green skies are the new black Two scientists offer a grim preview of where humanity is headed	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Feel like you're just not depressed enough today? Read the last bit of this Dot Earth post: During a break, I asked [Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Dr. F. Sherwood] Rowland two quick questions. The first: Given the nature of the climate and energy challenges, what is his best guess for the peak concentration of carbon dioxide? ... His answer? '1,000 parts per million,' he said. My second question was, what will that look like? 'I have no idea,' D ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Heating heaven Early appearances of climate change in popular literature	Erik Hoffner	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I picked up a copy of the newly reissued 1971 Ursula Le Guin classic The Lathe of Heaven, which takes place in dystopic, post-collapse Portland, Ore., circa 2002 or so. It's typical brilliance from Le Guin, of whom I can't read enough, but I was interested to see that the novel begins by describing Mt. Hood devoid of snow due to the greenhouse effect. The climate is entirely different from that of the 1960s, with blue skies a thing of the past and rainfall pa ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, green living, Portland (all these topics)

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