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Ne Gus ultra Gus Speth chats about his new book and increasingly radical green views	David Roberts	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Gus Speth. When Gus Speth gets radical, it's time to start digging bunkers. For more than 30 years, Speth has labored as the consummate environmental insider, having founded an environmental think tank (World Resources Institute), co-founded a major green group (Natural Resources Defense Council), advised a president (Clinton), administered a United Nations agency (U.N. Development Program), and taught in the high echelons of American academia (Georgeto ...
Topics: books, climate, economy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, interview (all these topics)

Flock Together New climate campaign aimed at U.S. consumers		05 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:30 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A European campaign to raise consumer awareness of climate change has made its U.S. debut. The Together campaign -- not to be confused with the similarly named-and-agendaed "we" campaign -- was initiated by the nonprofit Climate Group and kicked off in the U.S. by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Var ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, consumerism, environmental movement, green living, messaging, news (all these topics)

Vangelism Q&A with Van Jones about the Climate Security Act and green jobs	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Van Jones. What does the green jobs and justice community think about the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? To get one perspective, Grist caught up with Van Jones, the founder of Green For All, a group that promotes green-jobs policies and environmental justice. Jones, a civil-rights lawyer and the founder and former executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, has become a leading voice for building a green economy. Green for All pu ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, heroes, hotties, interview, legislation, Muckraker, Van Jones (all these topics)

A tool in the toolbox Richard Revesz responds to Lisa Heinzerling, defending cost-benefit analysis	Guest author	05 Jun 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 by Oxford University Press. It continues a dialogue with professor Lisa Heinzerling: see Revesz's initial post and Heinzerling's response. ----- Cost-benefit analysis, correctly applied to many environmental problems, will show ...
Topics: economy, environmental movement, health, messaging (all these topics)

Just Forget All the Bad Stuff for a Day World Environment Day is June 5		04 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 4:55 PM on 04 Jun 2008 Thursday is World Environment Day, and you will no doubt celebrate by donating to Grist. (Thank you!) Once you've got that out of the way, you can also help out our dear environment by packing a lighter suitcase when you travel, jogging in the park instead of on the treadmill, using a wind-up alarm clock, and ditching your electric toothbrush, says a 202-page United Nations report called &qu ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, holiday, New Zealand, news, United Nations (all these topics)

The problem with 'We Can Solve It' An ad campaign on climate needs spokespeople who believe what they're saying	Ken Ward	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Idly watching TV the other day, my attention was caught by the arresting image of Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson sitting on a sofa. The artfully shot, 15-second spot is one of the first blitz of television ads from We Can Solve It, Al Gore's $300 million project to build up a public base of support for climate action. The two resemble each other, looking as sleek and plump as sea otters after a good feed. Sharpton and Robertson fence good naturedly, following t ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, messaging, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Feed your Van Jones crush Premier episode of a new online film series features Jones and Carl Pope	Maywa Montenegro	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A new online film series called This Brave Nation premiered its first episode Sunday night: a conversation between Carl Pope and Van Jones. Both are natives of Frisco and both are equally adamant about environmental stewardship, but they have vastly different approaches. Here they chat about melding those tactics towards a common goal. Later this month, on June 15, Pete Seeger and Majora Carter discuss environmentalism, protest music, civil rights, and urban renewal ...
Topics: environmental movement, heroes, hotties, San Francisco, Van Jones (all these topics)

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 Caf� 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: environmental movement, holiday (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: business, climate, environmental movement, 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)

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