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Lieberman-Warner gets corporate support Industry & green groups join up to back climate bill	Kate Sheppard	31 May 2008	Gristmill
A coalition of corporations, green groups, and unions issued a joint statement to senators yesterday declaring their support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, which will hit the Senate floor on Monday. Among the endorsers is General Electric, one of the five largest companies in the world -- definitely a big pick-up for the legislation. 'This is a very important vote on a bipartisan plan to address climate change,' reads the statement. '[T]he bill prot ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Early warning signs at the Global Warming Café The Climate Policy Paradigm has reached its endgame	Ken Ward	20 May 2008	Gristmill
It takes effort to suit up in the quasi-business/academic garb of the professional environmentalist and enter the lion's den of DC politics or the state houses. Our beliefs are so fundamentally at odds with the very fabric of civic life that it requires an effort of will, particularly in the early years, not to scream bloody murder and run for the door. Over decades, layers of accommodation and polite behavior have built up by accretion, while our rough edges have been w ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Cost-benefit environmentalism: an oxymoron Lisa Heinzerling responds to Richard Revesz on cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	14 May 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Lisa Heinzerling, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author, with Frank Ackerman, of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, published in 2004 by The New Press. ----- The efficient wasteland In his essay, Richard Revesz argues in favor of a 'cost-benefit environmentalism' that embraces economic analysis and "uses both reason and compassion to justify strong environmental rules." It is wo ...
Topics: economy, environmental movement, health, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Cost-benefit environmentalism The green community should mend, not work in vain to end, cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	08 May 2008	Gristmill
This is a guess essay from Richard L. Revesz, Dean of New York University School of Law and co-author, with Michael A. Livermore, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published this month by Oxford University Press. ----- Failing the cost-benefit test The R. Gallagher coal-fired power plant in Indiana emits over 50,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per year. Sulfur dioxide is a major component of partic ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, economy, environmental movement, politics, regulation (all these topics)

'Orangutans' scale wall, save forest Unilever supports rainforest destruction moratorium	Glenn Hurowitz	07 May 2008	Gristmill
Greenpeace just announced a big win in its anti-palm oil campaign: just five days after launching a campaign to pressure food and cosmetics giant Unilever to stop purchasing palm oil from rainforest destroyers, Unilever met Greenpeace halfway. Apparently nervous about the prospect of orangutan-suited activists continuing to scale their corporate headquarters (see picture), the company agreed to support a legal moratorium on rainforest destruction. Given that Unilever ...
Topics: environmental movement, Greenpeace, habitat protection, Indonesia, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Trouble in Paradise Ouster of Sierra Club's Florida leaders stirs up a storm of controversy	Emily Gertz	06 May 2008	Grist Feature
Things get stormy in Florida. Photo: Ali Nishan It's got all the signs of a bad breakup: anger, recriminations, and friends taking sides. But this rift doesn't involve bitter former sweeties; it's between members of one of the nation's largest and most influential environmental groups. And it's happening in a high-profile, wealthy state with complex environmental problems, whe ...
Topics: environmental movement, Florida, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Ducks per gallon Tar sands are hardly 'environmentally responsible'	Josh Dorner	02 May 2008	Gristmill
Alberta's tar sands got yet another huge black eye this week when as many as 500 ducks died after simply landing on a giant pond full of highly toxic oil sands tailings. Only five were said to have survived their toxic plunge. A member of a Canadian environmental watchdog group described the water found in the ponds as follows: Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline. Whether the bitumen is cooked ...
Topics: Alberta, animal welfare, energy, environmental movement, international politics, oil sands, politics (all these topics)

Create a diversion Diverting war spending to green investments is both politically possible and neccesary	Gar Lipow	02 May 2008	Gristmill
Is it possible to divert war spending into green investment? (David is skeptical.) The current military budget for fiscal year 2008 is around 650 billion dollars, not including supplemental requests, which so far have been made every year since the Iraq war started. That $700 billion-plus total compares to the around $400 billion of military spending in 2001. Given the current unpopularity of the Iraq war, would it really be politically impossible to gain public support f ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Congress, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Jump the chasm Are you an EcoDaredevil?	Guest author	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Wallace J. Nichols, a senior scientist at Ocean Conservancy and a research associate at California Academy of Sciences. He was featured in the documentary film The 11th Hour. On Earth Day, Nichols gave a keynote address at Duke University in honor of Evel Knievel entitled 'Jump the Chasm: Are you an EcoDaredevil?' After the address, Elliott Hazen, a Duke University PhD student, was honored with the first EcoDaredevil award. ----- E ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, heroes (all these topics)

Celebrating Earth Day with Tom Friedman An interview with The 'Stache pre-pie-in-the-face	Nathan Wyeth	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Yes, Tom Friedman came to Brown University on Earth Day to unveil his new book and got hit by a pie. But he cleaned himself up, came back with a joke about surviving Beirut and Jerusalem but running into trouble in Providence, and went on to deliver a stem-winder of an address for an op-ed columnist essentially outlining his latest book. I found The World Is Flat to be a good window into business models in the 21st century. His new offering, Hot, Flat, and Crowded ...
Topics: books, education, energy, environmental movement, local food, messaging, oil (all these topics)

Now We've Heard Udall Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ...
Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Poll: Thoughts on Earth Day How'd Earth Day treat you this year?	Grist	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Well, April 22 has come and gone. How was Earth Day for you? Take our poll below!
Topics: holiday, environmental movement (all these topics)

Pollan envy	David Roberts	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
For people involved in the TV business, I imagine watching The Wire -- David Simon's novelistic depiction of big-city dysfunction on HBO -- generates mixed feelings. On one hand: Damn that's good. On the other: Damn. That's really good. It makes what once seemed excellent appear merely adequate; what was once adequate now worthless. It has transcended its medium and made those still laboring within its received limitations seem ... diminished. That's how I feel when ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, TV (all these topics)

Nancy + Newt sittin' on a couch ... Pelosi and Gingrich unite for climate protection	Sarah van Schagen	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
... T-A-L-K-I-N-G about climate change in a new TV spot for the me We Can Solve It campaign. Check it out:
Topics: climate, environmental movement, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, politics, TV (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green Da yoots!	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Cute! We're now hearing from Avery Hairston, founder of an NGO called RelightNY -- oh, and a 16 year old high school sophomore. He's all rumpled and nervous and brainy. I want to go muss his hair. RelightNY raises money to buy and distribute CFLs -- 20,000 so far, 50,000 more planned for this year. He's showing us slides of him and his friends carrying boxes of lightbulbs to senior citizen homes, inner city schools, public housing, etc. He keeps saying how "a ...
Topics: energy, energy at home, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I flew down to Pasadena today for the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference. There's tons of interesting stuff on the agenda -- a mix of corporate types and NGO types, technology and policy topics. I'm moderating a panel on Monday night called "Meet the Rabble Rousers," an informal discussion wherein activists answer questions about the rabble they've roused. It stars Mike Brune of the Rainforest Action Network, Sister Patricia A. Daly of the ...
Topics: environmental movement, business, climate, greenish companies, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Goldman videos	Adam Browning	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Video of Goldman Prize speeches here and here.
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, heroes (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'So what can one conclude from environmentalists' insistence that coal be removed from the country's energy portfolio? That their focus has moved from reducing pollution to abolishing human development and prosperity.' -- the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board, exposing the conspiracy once and for all
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, environmental movement, quotables (all these topics)

From the peanut gallery Responses to Bush's climate speech	Grist	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Here's a roundup of responses to Bush's climate speech. We'll add to it as more come in. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming:'By the time President Bush's plan finally starts to cut global warming emissions, the planet will already be cooked. The President's short-term goal is to do nothing, his medium-term goal is to do nothing much, and his long-term goal is to do nothing close to what's needed to sav ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental movement, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

They're the Tops Meet the global activists who won this year's Goldman Environmental Prize		13 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Think changing the world is impossible? Think again. From a polio-stricken musician who's spreading the word about clean water in his native Mozambique to a pair of Ecuadorian activists taking on Big Oil, this year's seven Goldman Prize winners prove that a little heart and a lot of sweat can make a big difference. Press the arrows to scroll through the photos. Each year, the Goldman Prize -- f ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, heroes, progress (all these topics)

The birth of blue Adam Werbach calls for a new movement of a billion consumers	Grist	12 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Adam Werbach. On April 10, Adam Werbach gave a speech in San Francisco calling for a new 'blue' movement of consumers pushing for sustainability (previewed in this post). Here's the full text of the speech for your reading pleasure. (Watch video here.) The Birth of Blue: A speech to the Commonwealth Club by Adam Werbach In 2004 I came here to the Commonwealth Club and performed a eulogy for environmentalism. Eulogies by their nature are the last word on ...
Topics: consumerism, death of environmentalism, environmental movement, green products, Wal-mart (all these topics)

May the truth force be with you Gandhi, King, and climate change	Guest author	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Jonathan F. P. Rose, co-founder of the Garrison Institute, presenting a public forum on 'Satyagraha: Gandhi's Truth Force in the Age of Climate Change' April 13 at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. ----- Mahatma Gandhi In recent days, we commemorated the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., who died 40 years ago this month. And some have also recalled that King was influenced by Gandhi, learnin ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

The faces of green The Dream Reborn: diverse speakers and audience with a common vision	Erik Hoffner	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Jennifer Oladipo is a writer from Louisville, Ky., whose recent Orion article 'Global Warming is Colorblind' was just reprinted in Utne Reader. She was in Memphis last weekend to see firsthand what the green jobs movement is about. (To read more Grist coverage of the Dream Reborn conference, see Pat Walters' dispatches from day one and day two.) ----- The hopeful skeptic in me was the part most drawn to The Dream Reborn conference hosted by Green For All last week ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, green jobs (all these topics)

Am I BLUE? Adam Werbach follows up 'Death of Environmentalism' with 'Birth of Blue'	Grist	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Adam Werbach. In 2004, former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach made by a splash by asking, 'Is environmentalism dead?' In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he critiqued his own work as an environmentalist and suggested that the environmental movement was ill-suited to solve the challenge of global warming. Much lively debate and serious reflection ensued. On the evening of April 10, Werbach will give a follow-up speech, entitled 'Birth of ...
Topics: consumerism, death of environmentalism, environmental movement, green products (all these topics)

The Van fan club GOOD magazine's profile on the black green activist	Maywa Montenegro	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
What Grist readers might have predicted over a year ago, when David interviewed Van Jones, is quickly becoming reality. In October, Thomas Friedman, in a gushing editorial, called Jones a 'rare bird' who 'exudes enough energy to light a few buildings on his own.' Now he's appeared on the Colbert Report where, despite the always-awkward position of Stephen's interviewees, he managed to land 'green jobs' in the mental dictionary of millions of young viewers. I had th ...
Topics: business, economy, environmental justice, environmental movement, green jobs, hotties, Van Jones (all these topics)

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