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Lead, Swallow, or Get Out of the Play Mattel adds to recall of millions of lead-painted toys		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Lead, Swallow, or Get Out of the Play Mattel adds to recall of millions of lead-painted toys In yet another blow to Big Toy, Mattel Inc. yesterday recalled some 9 million China-made playthings. While most were sets containing potentially swallowable magnets, the toymaker also pulled 253,000 lead-painted die-cast cars. Earlier this month, Mattel pulled an additional 1.5 million toys thought to be colored wit ...
Topics: China, consumerism, green living, health, news (all these topics)

It Only Hertz a Little Rental and car-share companies get hip to hybrids		14 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
It Only Hertz a Little Rental and car-share companies get hip to hybrids Fueled by consumers' green interests, rental, car-service, and car-sharing companies are increasingly turning to hybrids. (Hear the collective sigh of relief from guilt-prone enviros who cringe with every tap on the rental accelerator.) Big renters Enterprise, Hertz, and Avis have all recently added several ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, news, Prius (all these topics)

Test Drive New York to paste 'global warming index' stickers on some new vehicles		06 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Test Drive New York to paste "global warming index" stickers on some new vehicles New York has become the second state in the U.S. to require new cars and light trucks to bear a "global warming index" sticker. (We'll give you a minute to guess which one was first.) The law, which begins with the 2010 model year, aims to educate consumers and cut pollutio ...
Topics: cars, climate, consumerism, greenhouse-gas emissions, New York, news, shopping (all these topics)

George Soros vs. the planet Soros, Goldman Sachs financing destruction of Brazilian forests	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Well, that whole beating George Bush thing in 2004 didn't work out, so now billionaire financier / Democratic fundraiser / anti-Communist crusader George Soros is back to his first love: making money -- apparently even when it comes at the expense of the planet. Sabrina Valle of the Washington Post is reporting that Soros is one of the biggest investors in growing sugarcane ethanol in the Brazilian cerrado, 'a vast plateau where temperatures range from freezing to ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, carbon sequestration, consumerism, deforestation, ethanol, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Welcome Back, Potter Final Harry Potter tome is 'greenest book in publishing history'		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Welcome Back, Potter Final Harry Potter tome is "greenest book in publishing history" Feel that crackle in the air? That's millions of Harry Potter fans trying not to fidget as they wait for the book's midnight release. (Or trying not to freeze, in the case of an Australian fan who was rescued after diving into a frigid lake to retrieve his pre-purchase receipt.) The final insta ...
Topics: books, consumerism, green living, green products, news, shopping (all these topics)

Bangers and Gnash Brits raise a fuss over less-frequent rubbish collection		17 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Bangers and Gnash Brits raise a fuss over less-frequent rubbish collection Baffled Brits are raising a stink over a policy that's become popular with local councils in their country: collecting trash every two weeks instead of weekly. Enacted by about 40 percent of councils, the practice -- which alternates the pick-up of trash and recyclables -- aims to encourage recycling and meet an E.U. goa ...
Topics: consumerism, England, green living, news, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Easing off the gas? Well, sorta	Clark Williams-Derry	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
One of the most striking findings from this year's Cascadia Scorecard from Sightline Institute (just released Tuesday, by the way) is that Northwesterners -- or, more properly, the residents of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia -- are using less gasoline. In fact, per person gas consumption on the Northwest's roads and highways has fallen by nearly a tenth since the late 1990s. To put the recent declines in context: cutting gas consumption by n ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, energy, oil (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Is carbon labeling a good idea? Can a bag of potato chips point the way to saving the planet?	Peter Madden	30 May 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Can a bag of potato chips point the way to saving the planet? In the U.K., we have started down the path of putting 'carbon labels' on products. Tesco, our biggest supermarket chain, has said they will label every product they sell. The Carbon Trust, a government agency, has already produced a prototype label and is trying it o ...
Topics: climate, consumerism, England, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Hummer almost caught on film doing useful work What's in your status symbol?	biodiversivist	26 May 2007	Gristmill
That's right. I actually saw a Hummer pulling a trailer with stuff in it yesterday. Although stunned, I recovered in time to get a shot of his trailer as he pulled away from the transfer station. Coincidentally, I was also pulling a trailer on my bike (also visible in the lower right hand corner). We smirked at one another as we passed. I think it's adorable how he painted is little red wagon to match his big red Hummer. Hummers are a joke in some circles and a huge ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, green living (all these topics)

Hilarious and painfully true Our culture of overcompensation	JMG	23 May 2007	Gristmill
Mark Morford: Bottom line: You can hope for the big shifts. You can hope for some sort of grand awakening, some sort of removal of the tumor and a relief from the pain of excess waste and abuse and happy ignorance.But, of course, what you get instead is, well, a nice drive to the megamall in a shiny 2008 Escalade for a couple of aspirin and some compact fluorescent lightbulbs and a copy of 'An Inconvenient Truth' on DVD. Ain't that America. More excerpts beneath the fold. ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, green living (all these topics)

The G-list The pre-Oscar buzz is green, all green	Yolanda Crous	23 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Penelope Cruz at the Global Green pre-Oscar party. Photo: Michael Caulfield / WireImage.comAnyone who sneaks a guilty peek at Access Hollywood or Extra after dinner knows that it is officially Party Week in Hollywood. Everybody and her over-pedigreed dog is in town, boozing and schmoozing it up before the Academy Awards on Sunday. So when I scored an invite to the Global Green pre-Oscar party, I was pretty pumped. This is th ...
Topics: cars, celebrity, consumerism, electric vehicles, Prius (all these topics)

Bill McKibben: Warning on Warming A new essay from the man	David Roberts	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Tom Engelhardt of the indispensable Tom's Dispatch received permission from the editors of the New York Review of Books to reprint an essay by Bill McKibben that appears in the current issue. He passed that permission along to me. Thanks to Tom, the editors at NYRB, and of course Bill for his tireless advocacy. ----- Warning on Warming By Bill McKibben [This piece, which appears in the March 15, 2007 issue of The New York Review of Books is posted here with ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change adaptation, consumerism, population (all these topics)

Watch TV for Grist! Tell us when green bursts from the screen	Katharine Wroth	14 Feb 2007	Gristmill
For the second time in two nights, I was innocently watching bad TV when a green theme popped up. A gal can't get a break from her day job these days with so many producers rushing to prove their eco-cred. So how far-reaching is this trend?Figuring that out will either require me to watch way too much TV or it will require your help. Loyal Grist readers, I ask ye: please think of Grist each time green creeps into one of your favorite shows, and report it here.I'll ...
Topics: consumerism, greenwashing, shameless self-promotion, TV (all these topics)

Valentine's day alert! It's coming, and it can't be stopped	Sarah K. Burkhalter	09 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Ah, Valentine's Day -- are we still pretending anybody likes this holiday? Single people feel insecure and excluded; people in relationships feel guilt-ridden and obligated to consume items blingy or fluffy. I say, if you love someone, tell 'em today, and on Feb. 14, obstinately refuse to wear red. Yet, knowing that obsessive marketing and the power of tradition are likely once again to outweigh my exhortations that we all just fuhgedaboutit, I would be remiss ...
Topics: consumerism, food, green living, holiday, sex (all these topics)

Cleaner by the Dozen Green group produces list of top 12 eco-friendly vehicles		07 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Cleaner by the Dozen Green group produces list of top 12 eco-friendly vehicles American autos are drowning their sorrows in foreign oil after not making the 2007 Green Book list of the top 12 eco-friendly vehicles, released yesterday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Honda's natural-gas-powered Civic GX (available only in California and New York) regain ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, lists, news, Prius (all these topics)

Ask a Brokeass: The first real column! Popping your (organic) cherry	Kate Sheppard	06 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Hello again, fair, broke readers. Sorry to tease you with my column intro and then leave you hungering for more for all these weeks. Your resident brokeass took an unexpected journey to Utah to steal swag from well-heeled, earth-friendly-ish corporations and stalk eco-savvy celebs -- and then returned and promptly got sick. So, the long-awaited second column, in which I actually answer some of your questions: Dear Brokeass, I'd love it if you could help clarify w ...
Topics: consumerism, food, local food, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Extracting useful energy from a fusion reaction Small is beautiful.	biodiversivist	01 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Here is a fun article from The Green Wombat retelling the 'solar-to-hydrogen' car story for the millionth time. I read stories like this in Popular Mechanics decades ago. The article talks about using solar panels to store sunlight as hydrogen to burn in internal-combustion-powered cars. Australia has a lot of sunlight and summers can be hot. It would be far more efficient to use that sunlight to power swamp coolers to air-condition homes than to throw 90% of that sol ...
Topics: consumerism, energy efficiency, hydrogen, renewable energy, Seattle (all these topics)

Catch up post: replying to some comments	Gar Lipow	16 Jan 2007	Gristmill
As promised, this is a catch-up post, wherein I belatedly reply to various comments. Ron Steenblik, director of research for Global Subsidies Initiative, said: 'Long distance transmission lines are good because they reduce the need for storage or backup if we use variable sources to generate electricity. (Storage is good, but transmission is almost always cheaper.)' Gar, may I make the friendly suggestion that you qualify that statement. I can recall back in the 19 ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, tech (all these topics)

Poor Taste Why The Economist's recent assault on 'ethical food' missed the mark	Tom Philpott	03 Jan 2007	Victual Reality
Why The Economist's recent assault on "ethical food" missed the mark By Tom Philpott 03 Jan 2007 Last month, the influential British newsweekly The Economist took the measure of the sustainable-food movement and found it wanting. "There are good reasons to doubt the claims made about three of the most popular varieties of 'ethical food': organic food, fair-trade food, and local food," the journal declared, and proceeded to subject each to withering analysis. Do ...
Topics: agriculture, business, consumerism, farmers markets, food, green living, local food, organic food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Lighting the way Wal-Mart pushes CFLs	Kate Sheppard	03 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Wal-Mart has has started a new campaign to push compact fluorescent light bulbs in their massive retail stores, according to an article published in the New York Times yesterday. Though only a reported 6 percent of homes use CFLs currently, Wal-Mart hopes to sell 100 million of the bulbs each year by 2008.'The environment is begging for the Wal-Mart business model,' Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. told the Times.Just the latest in the ongoing greening of Wal-Mart. Howeve ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, energy efficiency, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Overestimating the cost of emissions reductions Robert Novak does it on purpose	Andrew Dessler	31 Dec 2006	Gristmill
A recent Gristmill post discussed an op-ed by Robert Novak on climate change. One argument Novak makes against environmental regulations is that they're extremely expensive. Turns out when Novak's not outing CIA agents, he's getting his facts wrong. Novak says: The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that [the McCain-Lieberman climate bill] would reduce gross domestic product by $776 billion annually. However, if you read the report he quotes ...
Topics: climate, consumerism, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, United States (all these topics)

My gift to you Nothing	Kate Sheppard	22 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Last weekend I was riding the King County Metro bus when a nice man who had recently moved to Seattle from Taiwan asked me to tell him about Thanksgiving. I started in about how we get together with people we love, engage in gluttony, etc., etc. He said, 'Uh, but I mean, what about the day after Thanksgiving? Tell me about the sales.' At which point I realized I'd never been anywhere near a place of commerce on Black Friday. I grew up on a farm, and, well, we just don' ...
Topics: consumerism, holiday, shopping, waste (all these topics)

Wind Power Cards, Whole Foods, and you Are the wind credit cards deceptive?	David Roberts	04 Nov 2006	Gristmill
A kerfuffle has broken out in the green blogosphere. The state of play thus far: Steve Johnson noticed the new "Wind Power Card" from Renewable Choice Energy, available now at a Whole Foods near you. He is not a big fan: When you buy a card, you don't get any wind-generated electricity delivered to your home however. In fact, all you get is a card that doubles as a refrigerator magnet. Actually, you don't even get any credits, it's just a word they ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, green living, renewable energy, shopping, wind power (all these topics)

Some Prius-mature celebration Car-maker planning to expand the family	Kate Sheppard	03 Nov 2006	Gristmill
The Prius may soon be more than just one oh-so-stereotyped hybrid motor vehicle. Toyota's talking about starting a family of the cars, and in this case I'd have to support wanton reproduction. The automaker announced this week that they are considering creating a line of the gasoline-electric cars. It could include a wagon and a smaller, Smart-Car-esque inner-city model. U.S. sales of the Prius fell in the first quarter of 2006 simply because Toyota couldn't keep up ...
Topics: business, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Prius: the new drug dealer bling From the show Weeds	David Roberts	27 Oct 2006	Gristmill
Showtime's semi-hit show Weeds is about Nancy Botwin, a suburban stay-at-home mother of two boys who, after the death of her husband, turns to selling marijuana to make ends meet. Soon she starts growing too. I'm in the midst of watching the second season. With some partners, Nancy's just developed a new strain (dubbed "MILF weed" by Snoop Dogg himself) and started selling it. Cash is pouring in, so Nancy goes on a shopping spree. Here's a short clip of wha ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, green living, messaging, Prius, TV (all these topics)

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