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Under the Covers: Getcha grub on	Sarah van Schagen	21 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Grub, as defined in the book of the same name by Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry: grub* (grb), n. 1. Grub is organic and sustainably raised whole and locally grown foods; 2. Grub is produced with fairness from seed to table; 3. Grub is good for our bodies, our communities, and our environment. Grub should be universal ... and it's delicious. Last night, I went with a cadre of social Gristers to a book reading and signing by Lappé and Terry at the Elliott Bay b ...*
Topics: books, food, organic food (all these topics)

The ghost of Ayn Rand reminds us that environmentalists want to KILL US ALL [cue music from Psycho]	David Roberts	17 Apr 2006	Gristmill
We received this op-ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute, for reasons I don't fully understand. Perhaps they didn't read the site too closely? I dabbled with Rand when I was a bitter adolescent ... which is the appropriate time to dabble with Rand. When you don't grow out of that phase, well, you go to work for the Institute. Anyway, I present, for your amusement and edification: ----- To save mankind requires the wholesale rejection of environmentalism a ...
Topics: books, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Let's Make a Meal Michael Pollan digs into the mysteries of the U.S. diet in The Omnivore's Dilemma	Tom Philpott	13 Apr 2006	Arts and Minds
In The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan diagnoses the national attitude toward food: angst. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, 320 pgs, 2006. Channeling the modern middle-class shopper wandering vast supermarket aisles, Pollan asks: "The organic apple or the conventional? And ...
Topics: agriculture, books, food, green living, local food, organic food (all these topics)

More interview with author Richard Louv On his book, Last Child in the Woods	David Roberts	30 Mar 2006	Gristmill
This is the second part of my interview with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. The first part is here. Louv is not just interested in healthier kids and families, though that's obviously his abiding passion. He also realizes in a way few other environmental leaders seem to that connecting kids with nature is vital for the future of the environmental movement and, well, the environment. As he says ...
Topics: books, green living, interview, parenting (all these topics)

Under the Covers: Poverty & the Environment edition	Sarah van Schagen	24 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Remember books? Those pages of printed word bound together and read by ancient mankind way back when there wasn't a world wide interweb? Apparently they're still around! Which brings me to the purpose of this semi-regular column: I'll be showing you what's under the covers of various eco-themed books on shelves everywhere (or soon to be). These are not reviews, mind you -- I haven't actually read these books. Heavens, no! But I have held them in my hands and read t ...
Topics: books (all these topics)

So Happy Together The environmental case for integrated communities	Sheryll Cashin	21 Mar 2006	Soapbox
The following passage is excerpted from The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. (For more on this issue, read an interview with the author.) The growing concern with sprawl creates an interesting possibility for alignment of urban and suburban, white and minority, affluent and poor interests. Advocates for low-income people and for cities and older suburbs ...
Topics: books, environmental justice, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Oil on The Daily Show Jon Stewart interviews an oil analyst, who basically blows it	David Roberts	16 Feb 2006	Gristmill
A couple days ago, Jon Stewart interviewed Peter Tertzakian, author of A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World. (You can watch the interview here.) I haven't read the book, so I don't know what Tertzakian's general outlook is, but I can tell you that on television his outlook is boooring. It's highly unfortunate: The Daily Show reaches an extremely influential demographic, and the peak-oil issue despe ...
Topics: books, energy, oil, TV (all these topics)

The Legend of Weepy Hollow An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining		16 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
Missing Mountains, Wind Publications, 220 pgs., 2005. In August of 2002, Amanda Moore, a lawyer for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center, took on what she thought was a cut-and-dried legal matter for Granville Lee Burke, a resident of Chopping Branch Hollow in eastern Kentucky. Earlier that year, a flood that wreaked havoc throughout the hollow had severely damaged Burke's house ...
Topics: books, coal, energy, environmental justice, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Back to the Garden Two new photo books focus on food	Tom Philpott	09 Feb 2006	Arts and Minds
In the valuable new book Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, author Michael Ableman rambles across the country in a VW van, visiting small-scale farmers to talk with them at the table and in the field. Vine and dandy. Photo: Chrissi Nerantzi. Not surprisingly, he encounters an array of colorful characters, including Bob Cannard, a celebrated Northern California mic ...
Topics: agriculture, books, food, green living, recipes, slow food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Christmas gift idea alert! A seven-year-old writes a book on global warming	Sarah K. Burkhalter	03 Nov 2005	Gristmill
I love kids. I love how they think. I love how Ethan Khiem Matsuda, upon grasping the basics of global warming, immediately thought, 'What's going to happen to Santa?' Then he wrote a book about it. In The North Pole is Sinking!, 'Ice is melting in the North Pole, threatening Santa's workshop. Santa and his reindeer set out to investigate the cause. Can the children of the world save the day?' No, it won't freak your kid out to read a book about global warm ...
Topics: books, holiday (all these topics)

Page Against the Machine Amanda Lumry, children's book author, answers readers' questions		26 Aug 2005	InterActivist
Amanda Lumry, author of Adventures of Riley. I want to foster my 16-month-old son's sense of wonder and excitement about nature, without drowning it in worldly despair. At what age do you think it's wise to share environmental woes with youngsters? -- Ben Long, Kalispell, Mont. Yes, you definitely don't need to overwhelm your son with the world's issues right away. That could be very discoura ...
Topics: books, education, InterActivist, interview, messaging (all these topics)

Text Message Amanda Lumry, children's book author, answers Grist's questions		22 Aug 2005	InterActivist
Amanda Lumry. What work do you do? I am an author and photographer for the Adventures of Riley children's book series, which educates children about the environment and entertains them at the same time. I am also the cofounder of Eaglemont Press, based in Bellevue, Wash. How does it relate to the environment? The Adventures of Riley series focuses on nine-year-old Riley, who introduces elementary-age childr ...
Topics: books, education, InterActivist, interview, messaging (all these topics)

Crichton Mad A review of the distorted plot and politics in Michael Crichton's State of Fear	David Roberts	01 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear. Photo: HarperCollins Publishers. Michael Crichton's State of Fear is an attempt to meld serious politico-scientific critique with a modern techno-thriller. It's an ambitious undertaking, but to paraphrase Thomas Edison, success is 1 percent ambition and 99 percent not writing an awful book. Crichton's novel, alas, is unilluminating ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics)

Party Girl Christie Whitman's forthcoming book assails GOP's rightward lurch	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Jan 2005	Muckraker
When U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman left the agency in 2003, she said she wanted to "spend more time with her family." If you believed that, Bernard Kerik's got a tax-free nanny he'd like to sell you. Those skeptical of Whitman's resignation excuse may soon have their suspicions confirmed. It seems she quit because she was hoodwinked and hamstrung by her supe ...
Topics: books, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
At Last, an Evil Worldwide Cabal of Our Own Crichton thriller denies climate change; world fails to laugh at him Popular author Michael Crichton's new novel State of Fear features an evil cadre of environmentalists that uses secret technology to cause catastrophic natural disasters in order to convince the public of the dangers of global warming. They are aided by gullible Hollywood typ ...
Topics: books, celebrity, climate change skepticism, dumbassery , insanity (all these topics)

Wise Guys An excerpt from The War Against the Greens takes a hard look at the Wise Use movement	David Helvarg	01 Dec 2004	Arts and Minds
The War Against the Greens, by David Helvarg, Johnson Books, 384 pgs., 2004 revised edition. In 1988, the Wise Use movement was founded out of fear that George Bush Sr. was going to live up to his campaign pledge to be "the environmental president." This cabal of anti-environmental activists, organized by federally subsidized industries dependent on public lands, ...
Topics: books, climate, energy, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Medium Rare David Quammen's Monster of God looks at the endangered animals that endanger us	Kathryn Schulz	18 Nov 2003	Arts and Minds
Monster of God By David Quammen W. W. Norton & Company, 384 pages, 2003 What this world needs," opined the nature writer David Quammen in a 1984 column for Outside magazine, "is a good vicious 60-foot-long Amazon snake." He was kidding, thankfully; the rest of the column goes on to describe the human tendency to massively exaggerate the size of anacondas ...
Topics: books, endangered species, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh, Baby! A review of Having Faith	Jonna Higgins-Freese	30 Jan 2002	Arts and Minds
I am an environmental activist, and for almost a year, my husband and I have struggled to understand how our environmental commitments bear on our decision about whether to have children. So when I picked up Sandra Steingraber's new book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood,, I was immediately drawn in by the opening sentence: "Every woman who becomes pregnant brings to the experience her various identitie ...
Topics: books, parenting, population, toxics (all these topics)

The Lomborg and Short of It Links related to The Skeptical Environmentalist	Sherry Bosse	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
For those of you who still haven't gotten enough of the Lomborg controversy, look no further than your browser. We've compiled a collection of links to sites that praise the man, haze the man, and walk the middle ground. You Gotta Love the Guy Washington Post book review Denis Dutton's blurb-eriffic review of The Skeptical Environmentalist in the Washington Post reads as if it were calculated ...
Topics: books, environmental movement (all these topics)

Let Us Not Praise Infamous Men On Bjorn Lomborg's hidden agenda	Kathryn Schulz	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Here is Denmark, that harmonious northern country known for its curiously vanilla accomplishments (comprehensive social welfare, pastry, Hans Christian Anderson), and here is its latest export, Bjorn Lomborg, come to announce the good news that we live in a fairy-tale world. The medium for the message is The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg's 500-plus page blow-by-blow of "the Real State of t ...
Topics: books, environmental movement (all these topics)

Unhealthy Skepticism On Bjorn Lomborg and environmental hazards to human health	Devra Davis	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
You know what they say about people who become statisticians? They lacked the personality to become accountants. Whatever their personalities may be, those who spend their lives sorting through reams of numbers often lose sight of what those numbers mean and represent. The Skeptical Environmentalist is a big and infuriating book, written by a statistician and self-described former envir ...
Topics: books, health, toxics (all these topics)

Counter Argument On Bjorn Lomborg's use of statistics	Allen Hammond	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Extraordinary claims demand an extraordinary level of documentation and supporting analysis, and warrant the healthy skepticism of those who would review or pronounce judgment on them. Bjorn Lomborg's new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, is missing the documentation and analysis, and the outpouring of media coverage the book has generated is missing the skepticism. Lomborg's extraordinary claims are that e ...
Topics: books, climate, scientific research (all these topics)

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation	Emily Matthews	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his ...
Topics: books, deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Bjorn Again On Bjorn Lomborg and population	Lester R. Brown	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Some years ago, well before many outside Denmark knew Bjorn Lomborg's name, a group of his fellow faculty members at the University of Aarhus took the unusual step of developing a website specifically to warn the scientific community and others about flaws in his work. Appalled by Lomborg's scientific pretensions and unfounded conclusions, these faculty members, including a former head of the Danish Academy of Sciences, a ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, population (all these topics)

Specious On Bjorn Lomborg and species diversity	Norman Myers	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg opens his chapter on biodiversity by citing my 1979 estimate of 40,000 species lost per year. He gets a lot of mileage out of that estimate throughout the chapter, although he does not cite any of my subsequent writings except for a single mention of a 1983 paper and a 1999 paper, neither of which deals much with extinction rates. Why doesn't he refer to the 80-plus papers I have published on biodiversity a ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

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