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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Grassroots good Paul Hawken on the remaking of the world	Erik Hoffner	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Paul Hawken's new book Blessed Unrest is a much-needed analysis of the movement that's poised to change the world as we know it. It's a must read, (excerpted here in Orion magazine) even if you're not a self-described grassroots activist. In it, he states that 'the movement to restore people and planet is now composed of over one million organizations' working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. Maybe two million. And that: By conventional definition ...
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, green living, politics (all these topics)

Chait on the netroots	David Roberts	01 May 2007	Gristmill
Jon Chait has an expansive new piece in The New Republic about the rise of the 'netroots' -- i.e., the partisan, activist liberal blogosphere. I have my quibbles with some parts, particularly in the second half, but overall it's a far more comprehensive, fair, and respectful look at the netroots than you'll find anywhere else in the mainstream media. I don't consider Gristmill part of the netroots, in that its allegiances, to the extent it has any, are to environmenta ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, websites (all these topics)

It does to this one Is the starfish story really just bunk?	JMG	01 May 2007	Gristmill
The estimable biodiversivist wrote, in another thread, that 'What we do as individuals is insignificant compared to changes in carbon neutral energy generation and transportation infrastructure.' Which is both true and not true, I think. It reminds me of the story about the little tyke throwing starfish stranded on the beach back into the water, and being told by the parent that it didn't matter, leading the child to say, 'It does to this one.' Cute story, all chicken-soup ...
Topics: ecological footprint, environmental movement, green living, messaging (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living, messaging, music (all these topics)

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." ��
Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living (all these topics)

Da Pope!	David Roberts	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
His Most Excellent Holy Royal Pontificationist would like you to go green:According to Vatican sources, the present Pope is far more engaged in the green debate than John Paul. In the past year Benedict has spoken strongly on the need to preserve rainforests. In the next few weeks he visits Brazil. 'There is no longer a schism. The new interest in climate change and the environment is not surprising really. Benedict comes out of 1960s Germany, where environment and ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

'Four percent cited the coming end of the world or biblical prophecy, and 2 percent blamed space junk.' Poll results!	David Roberts	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The NYT has a bucketload of important poll results. Here's the full poll; here's the summary: Americans in large bipartisan numbers say the heating of the earth's atmosphere is having serious effects on the environment now or will soon and think that it is necessary to take immediate steps to reduce its effects, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds. Beyond that is a whole series of juicy tidbits. I hardly know where to dip in. Some quotes: Ninety perc ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, environmental movement, green living, politics (all these topics)

The Travel to exotic lands ...	JMG	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
During Vietnam we used to say that 'fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity' (OK, not exactly, but you get the point). I had a flashback of that today here at Gristmill.A new ad in rotation here from some outfit called the National Outdoor Leadership School invites you to 'Traverse a glacier -- before they melt.' In other words, NOLS has decided that there's no point in trying to be part of the solution, and it's better to make a buck making the problem worse, encou ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, messaging (all these topics)

Wondertoys and change avoidance The seductive lure of toys that promise solutions without change	JMG	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Reading about the sunken tidal turbines -- which seem interesting -- I got an overwhelming feeling of "here we go again." Why is it that people who know that "eat the foods you love and lose weight without exercise!" is hokum can't resist spending hours and hours hyping and being hyped about technotoys that promise "abundant low-cost clean energy that lets you lose carbon without reducing consumption!" I'm an engineer. I like engineers. But most ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Galapagos report: An intro to water woes A second dispatch from the sea	Grist	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. This week, she's traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the second of her dispatches from the journey. See her first dispatch here. Our first afternoon ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Who said it? A belated Earth Day quiz	Anna Fahey	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Can you guess? 1. 'In 1971, I participated in the second Earth Day and became the coordinator of an interdisciplinary Environmental Studies program at West Georgia College.' Find out here. 2. On the occasion of the first Earth Day: '[there is an] absolute necessity of waging all-out war against the debauching of the environment.' Find out here. 3. 'Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing, head-on, the serious environmental, economi ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Daily Show on Earth Day Funny	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Daily Show's Samantha Bee covers Earth Day (featuring RealClimate's Gavin Schmidt!): And as a bonus, here's Colbert:
Topics: environmental movement, funnies, green living (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, green living, politics (all these topics)

Green polls reveal lazy bastards	David Roberts	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Joel Makower has a fascinating roundup of recent green poll results. He concludes: So, what do we know that we didn't know pre-Earth Day? Not much. It's business as usual: Americans want clean, affordable, and care-free solutions to climate change and every other environmental challenge. But don't ask most of them to change their habits, spend more, or go very far out of their way. But for companies, it's a different story. They're the ones we're looking to for s ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living (all these topics)

Google's Earth Day logo	Chris Schults	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, green living, websites (all these topics)

"It is green thinks nature even in the dark"	David Roberts	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
It took [artist Mary Ellen] Carroll about three months to come up with that phrase [on behalf of the Precipice Alliance] and, she said, 'It should be something you should think about.
Topics: environmental movement, art, green living, climate (all these topics)

The wrong question Is climate change the most important global problem?	Michael Tobis	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Is climate change the most important global problem we face? This seems on its face a good question. Economists like Bjorn Lomborg take this reductionist recipe, spice it with an unshakable confidence in future growth, and conclude that climate should be low on our list of priorities. Lomborg's arguments follow from his assumptions. If his conclusions are wrong as they appear, perhaps the logic is wrong, or the data, or the underlying premises. All of these are ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental movement (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: cars, celebrity, environmental movement, green living, TV (all these topics)

Celebrating Earth Day through consumption? Amazon encourages its customers to buy green	Chris Schults	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Ah, Earth Day. What could be a better way to celebrate our planet than buying more stuff and then having it shipped halfway across the country? Regardless of what you may think of the online behemoth, Amazon.com should get some credit for prominently promoting its Earth Day store on its home page for the last week. And if their customers are going to buy things, it might as well be green things, right? In their '10 Ways You Can Help the Environment' they suggest ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, green products, movies, websites (all these topics)

Galapagos report: CEOs, scientists, and a very cool trip An expedition to see critters and talk freshwater	Grist	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. Over the next week, she'll be traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the first of her dispatches from the journey. Claudio Padua and I hatched a crazy idea ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Step It Up Seattle: Part II Photos and voices from Step It Up 2007 rallies across the U.S.	Chris Schults	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
As promised, albeit a few days late, we've published an audio slideshow of Step It Up Seattle, which also includes some photos from other Step It Up events from around the country. For post Step It Up 2007 action, check out the national website. Grist would like to produce more multimedia content in the future, so please let us know what you think in comments.
Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, Seattle, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

The Most Sexiest Greenest Unlikeliest Story of the Year Our second annual Earth Day list of the year's goodies, oddities, and inanities		20 Apr 2007	Main Dish
In honor of the 38th Earth Day, we hereby present the Second Ever List of Grist Superlatives -- our take on the good, the bad, and the weird of the past year. What did we miss? Add your own superlatives in comments below. Most thoroughly debunked premise: "The Death of Environmentalism" Amusingest photo op: President Bush in a white lab c ...
Topics: environmental movement (all these topics)

And 92 Percent Think Heather Mills Is a Real Trouper New poll declares environmental movement still around		20 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
And 92 Percent Think Heather Mills Is a Real Trouper New poll declares environmental movement still around Just in time for Earth Day, a USA Today/Gallup poll has hit the scene to tell Americans how they feel about the environment. To wit: 60 percent of us believe that global warming is happening now, and even more of us think it will, uh, continue to happen. In true bootstrap form, most U.S. folk believe that they sh ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, news (all these topics)

Screw Earth Day It's descended completely into 'small steps'	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
When I read stuff like this ... A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds that more Americans than ever -- 60%, up from 48% a decade ago -- believe that global warming has begun to affect the climate. A slightly larger percentage think it will cause major or extreme changes in climate and weather during the next 50 years. ... Even so, most people are wary of any government effort to protect the environment by imposing restrictions on how they live, work or get around. A m ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Sensenbrenner: protecting the children from <del Oy	David Roberts	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A panel of retired generals thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. The U.N. Security Council thinks global warming is an urgent national security threat. But wait! We forgot to ask Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R)! Sensenbrenner questioned "why global warming has suddenly become an issue of national defense" and afterward accused politicians and pundits of stoking children's fears. Think of the children.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, environmental movement, insanity, messaging, politics (all these topics)

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