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The Spore Against Terror A biologist explains what security experts can learn from nature	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Raphael Sagarin. Marine biologist Raphael Sagarin has eclectic interests. During the course of his career, he's scoured an Alaskan gambling record for clues to climate change, retraced John Steinbeck's and Ed Ricketts' survey of the Sea of Cortez, and even studied how Easy Cheese escaped early chlorofluorocarbon regulations. In 2002, as a science fellow on Capitol Hill, he tu ...
Topics: books, interview, politics, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

That '70s show Thirty years ago, high crop prices caused environmental destruction, too	Tom Philpott	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I wrote about high crop prices that were inspiring people to make all manner of dubious land-use decisions, like plowing up environmentally sensitive land to plant environmentally destructive corn.Then I came across an interesting bit from Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply, by veteran Washington Post reporter Dan Morgan. I've just started the book, which first came out in 1979. It's ...
Topics: agriculture, books, economy, food, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Is Our Textbooks Misleading? Student charges that textbook downplays climate change		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:36 PM on 09 Apr 2008 "[S]cience doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all," says a random climate skeptic the widely used 2005 version of Advanced Placement high school textbook American Government. The text, written by two prominent conservatives, goes on to imply that the cause of climate change is ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, education, news (all these topics)

Good green reading Voting is open for the Orion Readers' Choice Award	Erik Hoffner	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Read a good green-themed book lately? The editors of Orion have, and in advance of their award of the annual Orion Book Award next month, for an outstanding book exploring the interaction of people and the natural world, they've just posted all the nominated books here for voting in a 'people's choice' contest. From The World Without Us to Blessed Unrest, it's an impressive list that makes me realize how many books I want to crack open. But after looking them over, ...
Topics: books, green living (all these topics)

The Company He Keeps An interview with eco-certification expert Michael Conroy	Katharine Wroth	07 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Michael Conroy. Photo: Chris Conroy Photography As a shopper, you can't turn around without running into some type of green label, from Fair Trade to FSC-certified. But what do they all mean, and where the hell did they even come from? Economist Michael Conroy digs into the history behind these increasingly common labels in his book Branded!: How the 'Certification Revolution' Is Transfo ...
Topics: books, business, consumerism, green products, greening biz operations, interview, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

How about 'for smarties'? Green Living For Dummies: yet another addition to slew of easy-being-green books	Holly Richmond	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I know no Grist reader will need this book (especially if you've got Grist's opus), but the ubiquitous bumblebee-colored series has now turned its all-dummifying eye to the environment. Somewhere between Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies and Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies is your chance to learn what you're really supposed to do with those mysterious CFLs. (Looks like the orange-toned archrival, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living, came out six months ago.)
Topics: books, green living (all these topics)

Oh, goody! A book! The Business & Media Institute's new but not particularly special report	Sir Oolius	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I'm sure there's at least a chapter devoted to the two decades of TV broadcasts in which, no matter how irrelevant the context, the words 'global' or 'climate' or 'change' or 'warm' were inextricably linked to the words 'scientists disagree.' No? Instead, they offer us John Coleman's Medienkritik: Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism. 'The We ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism, TV (all these topics)

Stranger Than Fiction A sci-fi writer and an environmental journalist explore their overlapping worlds	Michelle Nijhuis	21 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the new collection Pump Six and Other Stories, envisions a future filled with environmental terrors. His characters move through worlds transformed by climate change, genetic engineering, drought, and toxic waste -- places that seem exotic at first, but on second g ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, messaging (all these topics)

Still a 'jungle' out there Upton Sinclair on downer cows	Tom Philpott	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Regarding the record-breaking meat recall in California, involving an industrial slaughterhouse that used torture to compel downer (i.e, too sick to walk) cows to slaughter, I caught word of a passage from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (published exactly 102 years ago Monday). Forcing downer cows through the kill line and into the food supply has a long and ignominious history. (The practice of mixing meat from downer cows into the food supply, of course, played a heavy r ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, books, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

City limits A poet takes the measure of Portland -- on foot	Kit Stolz	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Starting early this century, poet and professor David Oates set out to walk the boundary line that Oregon drew around the city of Portland decades ago to concentrate its development and discourage sprawl. What is today called 'the New Urbanism' is not new in Portland: it's been part of the political process since l973. As Oates writes in a forward to a book he recently published about his adopted state's experiment in urban utopianism: We hope to grow in, and in som ...
Topics: books, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Impermafrost Sobering dispatches from Alaska	Erik Hoffner	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The melting and erosion of permafrost is probably the most visible manifestation of climate change in Alaska. Photo: Seth Kantner, www.kapvikphotography.com Author and photographer Seth Kantner has a new blog that shares his observations of a changing Arctic in words and images. From trees invading the tundra and freakish weather to the hair-raising loss of the permafrost, it's a must-read. His phenomenal book Ordinary Wolves (one of my favorites of the la ...
Topics: Alaska, art, books, climate, wildlife (all these topics)

No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming: Now available free online! Book shows we can meet hard targets in stopping climate change	Gar Lipow	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As the climate crisis grows worse, many people question whether we can phase out human greenhouse-gas emissions before an irreversible feedback cycle begins. As a belated New Year's present for 2008, I want to offer for free the full text of my book Cooling It! No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming, to increase optimism. We not only have the technical capability to phase out fossil fuels over the course of 30 years, we can eliminate 94 percent of emissions withi ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

The Bitch Is Back An interview with Rory Freedman, coauthor of vegan manifesto Skinny Bitch	Sarah van Schagen	25 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
It would be impossible to make it through an entire lunch with Rory Freedman without realizing this simple truth: The bitch loves food. Excuse my language -- or actually, don't. Freedman wouldn't say it any other way. Rory Freedman (left), with coauthor Kim Barnouin. Photo: Tim VanOrden After all, she and former model Kim Barnouin are coauthors of the New York Times bes ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Unstoppable disinformation every 15 minutes from Fred Singer Climate denier contradicts self, facts, remains famous	Joseph Romm	21 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So Kansas state House member Larry Powell has sent a copy of Fred Singer's lame denier treatise, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, to every Kansas legislator. Of course, he sent one to Governor Sebelius, who denied a permit for two large coal-fired power plants in his home county. Since I've been blogging regularly on Kansas, Kansas reporter Sarah Kessinger called me Friday for my opinion on Singer's book and what legislators should do to become inform ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Put the wild in wildlife Nora Roberts will match donations to Defenders of Wildlife	Sarah K. Burkhalter	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Well, well, well. Who ever said that trashy romance novels couldn't change an endangered species' life? Ferret-related plagiarism by romance novelist Cassie Edwards has brought the world more than just a discussion of the various outdoor places our readers like to get down and dirty. (But, um, that was very enlightening.) According to Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, the site that started all the hoopla in the first place: [Well-known romance novelist] ...
Topics: books, endangered species, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Grin and ferret Wildlife writer discusses being plagiarized by a romance novelist	Sarah K. Burkhalter	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Did our writeup of a romance novelist's plagiarism of a wildlife magazine pique your curiosity (or anything else)? Read a hilarious firsthand account of the action by Paul Tolme, who originally wrote the description of black-footed ferrets that romance writer Cassie Edwards lifted for pillow talk between a libidinous Lakota chieftain and a provocative pioneer. 'It is said their closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats,' says the ravish ...
Topics: books, funnies, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

What's the skinny? What would you ask a 'Skinny Bitch'?	Sarah van Schagen	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
As our resident foodie Tom Philpott noted a few weeks ago, the bitches behind Skinny Bitch -- "a no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous" -- are back. Tomorrow afternoon I'll be lunching with one of them, and I'm curious what y'all would ask her -- besides, of course, 'Are you gonna eat that?' Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, the self-described "pigs" behind Skinny Bitch, sh ...
Topics: books, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

The book pigs hate even more than Lord of the Flies Why Omnivore's Dilemma should be avoided	Adam Browning	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
If I was a pig, and I was president, the first thing I'd do would be to ban The Omnivore's Dilemma. I have a friend -- let's call him PJ -- who'd been a vegetarian for over a decade. Then he read The Omnivore's Dilemma -- which, if you haven't read it, is manifesto of the local-food movement that culminates in a self-sourced meal starring a locally shot feral pig -- and in short order got a hunting license, bought a gun, and started learning how to make salami, bam ...
Topics: books, food (all these topics)

Muskrat Love Ain't Got Nothin' on This Romance novelist accused of plagiarizing green group's magazine		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Bloggers at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books have accused popular romance writer Cassie Edwards of plagiarism in a number of her tomes, including Savage Longings, Savage Moon, and Savage Beloved. Among the accusations of Edwards -- who, it may surprise you to know, often writes about the lustful dalliances of Native American characters -- is that a descripti ...
Topics: books, green living, news, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Modestly right, not interestingly wrong The right way to interpret Shellenberger & Nordhaus	David Roberts	13 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Matt Yglesias has a review of Shellenberger & Nordhaus' book in the NYT Sunday Book Review. It contains a good insight and a fairly crucial mistake -- albeit a mistake common to those enter S&N's hall of mirrors for the first time. The insight is twofold. First, that the core and most valuable part of S&N's book is about messaging: "We know from extensive psychological research," they write, "that presenting frightening disaster scenari ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, messaging, politics (all these topics)

My Al Gore story Gore's impromptu humor at a recent small climate summit	Joseph Romm	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I'm not normally given to shameless name-dropping, but what else are blogs really for (other than making bets with readers)? Over the last three days I attended a small climate solutions summit hosted by the former vice president and current Nobel laureate. It was off-the-record, so I can't report on presentations directly, but they have made me a lot smarter about the latest technologies and strategies for clean energy, which will inform my blogging this year on ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, climate, politics (all these topics)

Bookin' it What everyone's saying about Grist's new book, Wake Up and Smell the Planet	Ashley Braun	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Unless you've been living under a rock lately, I'm sure you've been hearing over and over again all the glowing praises for Grist's slick new book, Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day. What? You've never even heard of it? That must be an awfully nice rock you're camping under. To bring you up to speed: Wake Up and Smell the Planet represents the pivotal and profound expression of the translation of contempo ...
Topics: books, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Edible Media: Angry vegans with knives and pots A full-flavored attack on industrial food	Tom Philpott	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Edible Media takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web and off. I have to admit, when I think of vegan fare, I first picture little lumps of soy curd, swimming in a brown pool of Bragg's Liquid Amino Acids -- perhaps with a spear or two of oversteamed broccoli on the side. Then, when I think a little harder, I picture all the fantastic food that emerges without direct involvement of animals (though nearly all well-raised pro ...
Topics: books, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

My audiobook experiment The ear as an underutilized data input port	biodiversivist	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I've been experimenting with audiobooks, not only because they may one day replace the tree-eating variety, but also because I like the idea of listening to a book while performing other less entertaining tasks. Meetings fit that definition but turn out not to be good candidates for other reasons. My brain has two main data input ports: my ears and eyes. Of the two, my ears seem to be the least utilized. However, I didn't know if I could listen to a book and chew gum ...
Topics: books, green living, tech (all these topics)

The Road A short review of Cormac McCarthy's recent book	biodiversivist	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Eric's call for some good nature books has motivated me to do a short book review. I'm not sure the one I've chosen is a good book, or that I would recommend reading it. And it does not have a whole hell of a lot to do with nature writing. Nevertheless. I don't usually read fiction (preferring to learn something while at leisure). My wife reads a lot of it and recently finished a book from Oprah's book club called The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. She insisted I woul ...
Topics: books (all these topics)

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