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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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Green so light it barely leaves an impression
From pop star John Mayer |
David Roberts |
30 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| John Mayer. Photo: sushla via flickr Congratulations to pop star dreamboat John Mayer for penning what can only be termed a reductio ad absurdum of the light-green, change-your-lightbulbs, ten-things-you-can-do, don't-sweat-it-too-much, caring-a-little-is-OK but caring-too-much-is-square environmentalism. I was going to pick excerpts, but really you gotta read the whole post to get the full impact. Ladies and gentlemen, John Mayer: (Preface: Don't get tur ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living, messaging, music (all these topics) |
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Back in Black: Earth Day edition
Lewis Black on celebs giving green advice |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lewis Black on celebs telling America to go green: "So there you have it, advice on saving the planet Earth from a bunch of people who couldn't even save Planet Hollywood." |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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David Roberts |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This evening, I was on Fox's Hannity & Colmes discussing ... toilet paper. Yes, really. I'm sure my stiff, awkward performance will show up on YouTube sooner or later, so that's something to ... hm, 'look forward to' doesn't seem appropriate. Expect, then. |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics) |
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Eating Crow
Notes from the road |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Just as the whole Karl Rove v. Sheryl Crow thing was blowing up in the news, I was arriving in Washington, D.C. to cover ... Sheryl Crow. Taking on climate change. You can read about Crow's big arrival over on my blog, but a few quick thoughts on the Rove encounter before I head for the airport to come home. When I mentioned this story yesterday morning, I had no idea this would become the story-of-the-moment on all the major mainstream media outlets. But Sheryl Cro ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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The times, are they really a-changin'?
Bob Dylan on climate change |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bob Dylan, global warming denialist? |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Hell hath no fury like a Lohan scorned
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Yolanda Crous |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| On the list of most environmentally unfriendly ways to avenge yourself on an ex-boyfriend, leaving the water in your tub running so it can flood your former squeeze's apartment sits pretty close to the top. But punishment-by-excessive-water-use is exactly what Lindsay Lohan allegedly wrought on Harry Morton last month. This, from TMZ.com: Lohan lives one floor above Harry Morton, son of Las Vegas mogul Peter Morton, who just sold the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Lin ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, gossip, green living (all these topics) |
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Karl Rove meets Sheryl Crow
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David Roberts |
22 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Drama ensues! |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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On the Ball: Dare to dream
Wouldn't it be great if Beijing did pull off a green Olympics? |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
21 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Along with some guy named Al Gore, Olympics chief Jacques Rogge has been honored with an award by the United Nations for being an environmental enforcer. Good on ya, Jacques! (Perhaps he was behind the fancy sewer heating system in Vancouver?) The next Olympics hurtling our way is Beijing 2008, and apparently the International Olympic Committee is concerned about sooty air and traffic congestion. You know what I'd like to see? After all this bad press, it'd b ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, China, green living, sports (all these topics) |
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Earth Day TV
Check your local listings |
Adam Browning |
21 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| All the magazines have gone to press with what's become their annual Green Issue. And now TV is in on the act. MTV has a special Earth Day edition of Pimp My Ride: they take a '65 Impala, put in a 800 hp diesel engine, fill the tank with biodiesel, and race it against a Lamborghini. My money is on the Impala. Cameo by Governor Schwarzenegger, check local listings (April 22). While this isn't exactly a recipe for sustainability, that's not really the point, either. Ever ... |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, environmental movement, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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The devil wears blue jeans
On the latest eco-conscious denim trends and events |
Summer Rayne Oakes |
20 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'Who are the big, fat, tall people that buy the jeans we make?' That's the question that Jasmine, 16, innocently asks in Micha Peled's documentary China Blue, a clandestine view of three girls' lives in a Chinese sweatshop. I felt pretty embarrassed watching Jasmine cut the threads off our blue jeans during her 20-hour workday. It's the same Catholic schoolgirl guilt you get when the burly, bearded dude walks in on you because the gas station's bathroom lock is b ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, fashion, green living, green products (all these topics) |
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Converts and heretics
Time to start welcoming rather than bashing eco-newcomers |
David Roberts |
19 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger is being offered up as an eco-hero, so naturally some folks in the green movement rush to point out that it's all a big fraud. Why they do that -- why progressives eat their allies -- I'll never understand. Let's approach this through a semi-related phenomenon. I had the privilege of meeting Andrew Dessler in person the other day (how'd your talk go, Andrew?), and we discussed, among other things, how several climate change skeptics start ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, celebrity, environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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Bib you hear the one about ... ?
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Yolanda Crous |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The number one craze in Hollywood -- babies. The number two craze -- using your baby to show off your eco-grooviness. According to the folks at Ecorazzi, OopC bibs, made from 100 percent organic cotton, are flying off the shelves and into the homes of such glitter-mamas as Gwyneth Paltrow and Tori Spelling. But, as the site rightly points out, buying a few organic bibs does not a true green celeb make: One new Hollywood grandma who must rename nameless ordered ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, parenting (all these topics) |
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Have Some Class: MIT wins mtvU's eco-challenge
Angels and Airwaves to perform on campus this Sunday |
Sarah van Schagen |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In the interest of keeping you informed, I offer the final chapter in the mtvU GE Ecomagination Challenge. As you may (or may not) recall, students were asked to propose projects that would green their respective campuses. Out of more than 100 entries, 10 finalists were chosen, and then you voted to help pick the winner (you did vote, didn't you?).Well, the results are in, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Biodiesel@MIT project has won a $25,000 grant and ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, campus activism, celebrity, energy, green living, politics, TV (all these topics) |
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Shalom, goodbye
This model is no longer untouchable |
Yolanda Crous |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| During college, I went through an ill-advised phase during which I tacked photos of supermodels I was never, ever going to look like on my dorm-room walls. One of my twiggy idols was Shalom Harlow, whom I loved because she a) really knew how to work the red lipstick and b) seemed like the least approachable person on the planet. No longer. This year, not only did she show up on the cover of Domino's Green Issue, she also (as Amanda Griscom Little reported) pop ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, funnies, green living (all these topics) |
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Vegetarianism: gateway drug to liberal snobbery?
Or, what I learned watching The King of Queens last night |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| What I learned while watching The King of Queens last night: Once you give up meat, it's a slippery, slippery slope to becoming one of those nagging, know-it-all, hemp-hawking, finger-pointing, tree-hugging, self-righteous environmentalists we're all trying to distance ourselves from (or most of us, anyway).The episode begins as main character Doug Heffernan -- a delivery-truck-driving, junk-food-loving, red-blooded American living in Queens -- almost runs over a c ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, food, green living, TV (all these topics) |
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The Airing of 'The Green'
Robert Redford chats about the new green programming on the Sundance Channel |
Amanda Griscom Little |
17 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| The Airing of "The Green" Robert Redford chats about the new green programming on the Sundance Channel By Amanda Griscom Little 17 Apr 2007 Robert Redford. With his legendary Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford brought sex appeal to the business of independent filmmaking. Now, with his Sundance cable channel, he's aiming to do the same thing for another underappreciated art form -- eco-themed television programming. Tonight, the channel launches "The Green," a block of ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Billie Joe spends a green day rebuilding New Orleans
With Habitat for Humanity |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In a recent collaboration with U2 on "The Saints Are Coming," Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day sang about a house in New Orleans. But he spent this weekend hammering soffit onto one, as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Armstrong brought along some friends and his fam to help with the project as well, and they've been blogging about the experience on the Green Day fansite. On a semi-but-not-really-related note, Green Day is continuing to work wit ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music, placemaking (all these topics) |
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The Sundance Green party
Green glitterati come out to toast new eco-programming on Sundance Channel |
Amanda Griscom Little |
13 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The green glitterati of New York City -- a surprisingly expansive and glamorous bunch -- convened last night to celebrate the launch of Sundance Green, the new block of green programming that will begin airing on the Sundance Channel this coming Tuesday. (Full disclosure: I am a member of the project's advisory board.) While Robert Redford wasn't in attendance (he was en route to D.C. where today he will wrap up the filming of his political thriller Lions fo ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, Robert Redford, TV (all these topics) |
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Vanity Fair's green issue, part deux
In which Knut gets even cuter |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Vanity Fair's second annual 'green issue' hits newsstands today (though it arrived last week in 'special' cities like New York, L.A., and, apparently, Seattle). And I must say, though its inside contents can't compete with last year's edition featuring Grist's own Chip Giller, it does feature on its cover the equally lovable and (sorry, Chip) even more adorabler Knut. And for that, I applaud them.I do not, however, applaud them for their use of non-recycled paper. ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, magazines (all these topics) |
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On the Ball: King of the earth
Billie Jean King builds a green fitness facility |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
10 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Thought Calamity James, Bob Burnquist, Hijo del Santo, and Yao Ming were the only big-ish names is green sporting? (Because I know you spend a lot of time pondering the big-ish names is green sporting.) Well, add these to your list: Pioneering tennis phenom Billie Jean King is involved in plans for a green community, fitness facility, and exhibition tennis court in Palm Springs, Fla. And swimmer Ian Thorpe, retired from his sport at the ripe old age of 2 ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, sports (all these topics) |
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