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D.C. to host surprise Live Earth show
Final point awarded in Gore v. Inhofe |
Sarah van Schagen |
06 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Remember how Gore wanted to have the U.S. Live Earth concert in Washington, D.C., on the National Mall? And then Inhofe was all "it's partisan, you can't do it, neiner, neiner." And then Gore was all "fine, we'll have it at Giants Stadium in New Jersey." And then Inhofe was all "fine!" And then they both slammed their doors. Yeah, good times. Well, now, Gore's all "Ha, ha, sucka, we worked around your whole 'partisan' bullshit, ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Portman, je t'aime
Natalie names a baby gorilla |
Sarah van Schagen |
02 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Adorable actress and Grist-darling Natalie Portman visited a Rwandan wildlife park Saturday to name one of 23 baby mountain gorillas. Naming her gorilla "Ahazaza," meaning "future," Portman and others hoped to draw attention to conservation efforts for the highly endangered primates. I've yet to find any images from the event, but I'm sure Cute Overload is all over it. |
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| Topics: biodiversity, celebrity, cutesy, green living (all these topics) |
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After All, She Knows The Secret
Poll respondents pick Al, Oprah, and Kofi as climate messengers |
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02 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| After All, She Knows The Secret Poll respondents pick Al, Oprah, and Kofi as climate messengers Recent polls have shown that people all over the world ... join hands, start a love train, love train! Oh sorry, we get distracted. People all over the world are worried about the environment -- and the latest poll says that Oprah could help save us. Run by the Nielsen Company and Oxford University, the poll ask ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, news (all these topics) |
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Herbivorous hotties
PETA announces sexiest veggie celebs of 2007 |
Kate Sheppard |
27 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| PETA has announced this year's winners of their annual 'Sexiest Vegetarian' contest. This year's hottest plant-eaters? Tonight Show band leader Kevin Eubanks and American Idol-crooner-turned Grammy-winner Carrie Underwood (who won in 2005 as well, but dropped to runner-up last year). This year's runners up include our favorite babe teenage sleuth Kristen Bell (who knocked Underwood from the top spot last year), Spider-Man 3's Bryce Dallas Howard, the studly Joaqui ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, celebrity, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Bruce Willis on David Letterman
He takes on global warming |
David Roberts |
26 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Funny? (via Hugg) |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, TV, wind power (all these topics) |
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I'll take Ted Danson for $800, Alex
Oceana board member featured as quiz show category |
Andrew Sharpless |
14 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Answer: He once played the role of a former Red Sox pitcher-turned bartender, now he plays the part of ocean crusader as a member of Oceana's Board of Directors. Who is Ted Danson? The actor, who's advocated for ocean conservation for nearly 20 years, has appeared in everything from Saving Private Ryan to HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' Most recently he appeared as one of the categories on the television quiz show Jeopardy! Acting and advocacy -- that's what we c ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, oceans (all these topics) |
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Global warming envy
Who knew? |
Jon Rynn |
13 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Maybe some of you are not going to believe this, but a trend seems to be developing wherein some progressives seem to think that the issue of global warming is grabbing the 'spotlight.' For instance, in 'Why is peak oil politically incorrect?' Ugo Bardi compares the number of online searches that global warming receives versus peak oil, using Google's admittedly new 'Trends' system. The number of searches for global warming is rising rapidly, while peak oil lists along. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, environmental justice, environmental movement (all these topics) |
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The real McCoy
Law & Order ... in the ocean |
Andrew Sharpless |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Playing hard-nosed Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy, actor Sam Waterston has thrown the book at the bad guys for years on TV's Law & Order. Bad guys on boats and beaches better watch out now, too, because Waterston recently joined Oceana's Ocean Council, a panel of academic, business, and philanthropic leaders who represent and support Oceana's efforts on the global stage. Also on the Ocean Council are actors Pierce Brosnan and Kelsey Grammar. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, oceans, scientific research, TV (all these topics) |
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Splitsville
Laurie and Larry David call it quits |
Katharine Wroth |
06 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Is it because she gave away his hybrid? Dunno, but if you want to read a bunch of substance-free psychobabble about the possible reasons why Laurie and Larry David are divorcing, you're in luck. |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living (all these topics) |
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15 Green Actors
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01 Jun 2007 |
Main Dish |
| See which actors made the Grist green spotlight, and then nominate your own picks in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Photo: Steve Granitz / WireImage Leonardo DiCaprio Once "king of the world," this star often flies commercially and drives himself around in a hybrid Toyota Prius. In 1998, he started the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to promote environmental causes. More recently, he's been working on 11th Hour, an environmental documentary fea ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, celebrity, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, lists, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Al Gore on Charlie Rose
An hour-long discussion |
David Roberts |
28 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's Al Gore appearing on Charlie Rose. It's about an hour long: |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Mark Ronson
A tune for the end of the week |
David Roberts |
25 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Listen Play 'Valerie,' by Mark Ronson: Two of the best pop albums of the last year are Lily Allen's Alright, Still and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. What do they have in common (besides cute, clever female singer-songwriters, that is)? Producer Mark Ronson. The guy's a mad pop genius. As it happens, Ronson puts out albums of his own. The latest is called Version, and it's composed of cover versions of contemporary pop songs. H ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Al Gore on David Letterman
More Gore |
David Roberts |
25 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's Al Gore on David Letterman, Thursday night. Bizarrely substantive! Part one: Part two: |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Gore watch
The media continues to prove his new book right |
David Roberts |
24 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| As I mentioned the other day, there's a certain irony to the fact that Al Gore is out touring behind a book about the decline of reasoned public dialogue, since his emergence on the public scene inevitably elicits paroxysms of the shallowest, bitchiest, most vacuous commentary of which our punditariat is capable -- and that's saying something. Today brings examples so telling they hurt. I mean literally hurt. You've been warned. Start with this dazzlingly obtuse co ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, jackassery, politics (all these topics) |
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Social networking goes green ... sorta
LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, is introduced today |
Daniel Bachhuber |
24 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From Mashable.com: Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. Provided with this new feature are free badges to be placed on profiles, and registered nonprofits free job listings in order to find new members to join their teams. British rockstar James Blunt is already using LinkedIn to raise over $23,000 for ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, grassroots activism, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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Lindsay Lohan on going green
And other tips from celebs |
Sarah van Schagen |
21 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Happy Monday, y'all. If your weekend was as awesome as mine (read: not awesome), you'll need some entertaining celeb goss to get you going this week. So here goes:Leonardo DiCaprio announced this weekend during press for his documentary 11th Hour (which I've heard, ps, is not awesome, though I hope I misheard) that he arrived at Cannes via commercial jet and tries to fly commercially as much as possible. He also defended Gore's travel-y lifestyle:The way he travels ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, TV (all these topics) |
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Plus, He Made That Boat Sink
Leonardo DiCaprio brings climate-change film to Cannes |
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21 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Plus, He Made That Boat Sink Leonardo DiCaprio brings climate-change film to Cannes A year ago, Al Gore spread the climate-change message at the Cannes Film Festival. Now it's Leonardo DiCaprio's turn. The former boy wonder produced, co-wrote, and narrated The 11th Hour, a documentary that explores how industrial society screwed itself and how it can fix the problem. Relyi ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, David Suzuki, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, news (all these topics) |
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Vanity Fair: The unbearable whiteness of green
Where are low-income and minority greens in the media? |
Van Jones |
20 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Once again this year, the spring season brought a flood of green-themed magazines to super-market checkout stands and airport news racks all across the country. And once again, the faces of non-white and non-affluent Americans were almost entirely missing. Our new environmental movement is rapidly gaining visibility and momentum. That is very good news. Life-or-death ecological issues finally are starting to get the attention they so urgently deserve. And we can all ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Tune in to 'The Green'
Sundance launches TV's first eco-centered primetime block |
Andrew Sharpless |
18 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Your TV just got a little smarter. As Amanda mentioned last month, the Sundance Channel has launched 'The Green,' a weekly primetime destination that showcases original series and documentaries based on the earth's ecology and 'green' concepts for living in better harmony with the planet. I'm personally excited about this project now that my favorite Seafood Contamination Campaign spokeswoman, Amber Valletta, has her very own spot. She joins the ranks of other th ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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A moment of silence for Veronica Mars
Network TV's best show is cancelled |
David Roberts |
17 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It's no secret that we have a Grist-wide crush on Kristen Bell (the world's sexiest vegetarian!). So I feel obliged to take a break from the green and note with great sorrow that CW has cancelled Veronica Mars, Bell's sharp, sassy, criminally underappreciated star vehicle. It's a cliche at this point that females are bombarded with unhealthy messages in pop culture, but it's true nonetheless. I'm honestly surprised women can stand to watch network TV. It's filled wi ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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Live Earth: 7+ concerts on 7ish continents on 7/7/07
And if I could work another 7 in there, I would |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Live Earth website has been updated with a fancy (and much improved) new design that features a different 'Climate Crisis Solution' every time you refresh the page (not that I've refreshed it multiple times in an effort to see every single tip ...). And lately, news tidbits about the concerts are popping up fast and furious as well. On the furiouser side, Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has said Live Earth is a waste of time. Meanwhile, another gr ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Ouch!
Live Aid guy disses Gore's Live Earth concerts |
David Roberts |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's what Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldoff had to say about Gore's Live Earth concerts: 'I hope they're a success,' De Volkskrant newspaper quoted Geldof as saying in an interview. 'But why is (Gore) actually organizing them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all (expletive) conscious of global warming,' he said. ... 'I would only organize (Live Earth) if I could go on stage and anno ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Time's 100 most influential people
Plus some other folks |
Sarah van Schagen |
07 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Last week, Time magazine announced this year's Time 100, a list of the most influential people in the world. A handful of greenies made the list, including Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and even "light greenie" John Mayer.That list was chosen by a group of well-informed Time editors and other experts, but maybe more interesting is the magazine's Alt Time 100.This list probably has more names you recognize (w ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, Prius (all these topics) |
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On the Ball: A little bit of everything
The sports news comes fast and furious |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
04 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Oy. I am quite behind on my sporting reporting. So I bring you a linky post -- thank you, David, for teaching me the ropes. (And I'm sorry you lost your 35-tab ginormous linky post last night. We feel your pain.) Without further ado: Both the print Sports Illustrated and a recent Wall Street Journal article mention oh-so-briefly that Phoenix Suns basketball star Steve Nash hearts the environment. However, either my Google is broken, or Nash likes to keep hi ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, London, sports (all these topics) |
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Travolta strikes again
John Travolta's private plane fetish brings the noise to a small Maine community |
Yolanda Crous |
02 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Oh, John Travolta. When will you and your planes stop p$#@ing off the populace? Apparently it's not enough for Mr. Saturday-Night-Give-the-Planet-a-Fever to wander the globe in his private planes, trailing an excess of carbon emissions in his wake. He's also got to land his plane near his Maine residence during the area's voluntary no-fly period between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Come on, John. It's bad enough that you're contributing to warming the planet. Now you're ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, travel (all these topics) |
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