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TIME's survival guide to global warming Lots o' good stuff therein	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This week's TIME has a big package of stories on global warming. Upping the ante on the de rigueur '10 things you can do,' the magazine offers a whopping 51, an odd mix of large structural reforms and consumer tips like drying your clothes on a clothesline. Coming in at No. 1? Ethanol. Oy. Then again, a carbon tax comes in at No. 5, so all is not lost. Also earning the DR thumbs up: geothermal heat, urban living, cutting down on meat, supporting farmers markets, and ...
Topics: climate, environmental movement, green living, messaging (all these topics)

Travolta: biggest, fattest, hypocritest The latest on this earth-shattering story	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This past Friday, I was once again invited to be on FOX's Hannity & Colmes. Last time, you'll recall, I was to discuss the grave and momentous subject of Al Gore's hypocrisy. This time, the subject was even graver and momentouser: John Travolta's hypocrisy. (Last time I got bumped for Daryl Hannah. This time I was both too busy and too sick. Someday!) Travolta, you see, recently opined on the subject of global warming, just after driving a Harley down the red ...
Topics: celebrity, climate, environmental movement, green living, jackassery, TV (all these topics)

A note about sources Where to find green news	David Roberts	01 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Lately I've been feeling guilty about the fact that I frequently fail to cite where I find the links and articles I blog about. (Adding a "via so and so" or "hat tip: such and such" is good blog etiquette.) It's not deliberate, it's just that by the time I get around to blogging on an article that's been sitting in my browser as an open tab, I often can't remember what tipped me off to it. So let me just put in a generic plug for three aggregator ...
Topics: environmental movement, politics, websites (all these topics)

A great piece by Andrew Dobson on the politics of climate chaos It's the society, stupid	Gar Lipow	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Andrew Dobson posted a thoughtful and useful piece in yesterday's issue of OpenDemocracy.org:... the rhetoric of 'consumer sovereignty' and 'hands-off' governance is inaccurate and unhelpful. ... [C]onsumption decisions take place within a cultural and institutional context which constitute the rules of the game, and which part determine the consumer decisions that people make. ... [P]olicies based on information and price signals have had only limited suc ...
Topics: environmental movement, green living, politics (all these topics)

Information More, please	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This is a much more significant story than it might appear at first glance: Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People's Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only by riverboat, allowing them ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, environmental movement, rainforests (all these topics)

Awkward thoughts From a new contributor	Tom Athanasiou	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I feel like I ought to introduce myself, since Dave just upgraded me to contributor, but maybe I've already been introduced. I'm the 'more inconvenient truths' guy! But I take the point. The expiry date has passed. I won't say it any more. Not much anyway. All I ask is that nobody say 'tipping point' either. Or 'building momentum.' Nobody imply that technology is going to save us. And I won't say 'inconvenient truth' ever again. Actually, there is this one other ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Purity vs. efficacy 'Nature for nature's sake' has limited appeal	David Roberts	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Stephanie's post on Dave Foreman's rant raises a subject that's been hashed over on this site many times. But we've got some new readers around, so I'm going to hash it over some more. Here's how I see it. If you really love "nature for nature's sake," you'll want to do or say whatever it takes to protect what's left of nature. Your goal will be to find the most effective strategy and message to convince your fellow human beings to join you in working ...
Topics: environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

I heart David Tilman	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Tilman on biofuels in Sunday's Washington Post: eminently readable and reasonable on parsing the differences between good and bad biofuels, drops in ethanol production in Brazil, what renewable really means, and where we should go from here. The op-ed's based on his December Science study, which was discussed here. Everything he writes makes so much sense. Why can't all scientists be this articulate?
Topics: biofuels, energy, environmental movement (all these topics)

Tell your clean energy story; appear in Jay Inslee's book Fun all around	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Rep. Jay Inslee's wife Trudi asked me to pass this along to you: America needs a clean energy revolution, and we need your stories! Are you, your company, or community building the clean energy economy today? We want to tell the world about it. We will share clean energy stories on the website apollosfire.net, and selected ones will be published in a special chapter of the forthcoming book Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Congressman ...
Topics: energy, environmental movement, Jay Inslee, politics (all these topics)

Dave (Back)man? Earth Firster urges a return to conservationism	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Dave Foreman spills his guts on the difference between real conservationists and the rest of us, who are interested in saving the environment for utilitarian reasons here, urging a return to conservation's roots in the preservation of wildness for its own sake, and slamming utilitarian environmental approaches to conservation. I actually thought the movement had gotten past this debate; apparently I was wrong. Key phrase: ... [N]ature conservationists ...
Topics: environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Gristmill on EcoTalk EcoTalking	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned, I was on EcoTalk radio the other day, talking about the Waxman hearings on political interference with climate science. I did two segments, which you can download as mp3s: part one (11 min.), part two (7 min.). I think it went fairly well.
Topics: Congress, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

This is what I'm talking about Good communication strategy	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Witness: The United States should accelerate development of renewable energy sources because of increased risk from terrorist attacks that could cripple the economy, former national security adviser Robert McFarlane said Saturday. How do you think that compares, in terms of voter priorities, to saving 'the earth' or saving polar bears or saving arctic ice? Save your own ass. Now that's a sticky message.
Topics: energy, environmental movement, green living, messaging, renewable energy (all these topics)

The war is an environmental issue Not just a green issue, but certainly it is one	John McGrath	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Matthew Yglesias, in The American Prospect: The time is right, wonkish Washington seems to feel, for ambitious new thinking, for new grand bargains, for new initiatives and big ideas. I'm just wondering why. Not to put too fine a point on it, but: Don't you know there's a war on? Or, rather, two -- one in Iraq, one in Afghanistan -- and the United States is losing both.In some ways I worry about what happens when greens seek to put more and more topics under the ...
Topics: environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Van Jones Read the interview!	David Roberts	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I hope that everyone will take some time and head over to read my interview with Van Jones, civil rights lawyer, founder and director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and rising star of progressive activism. His message is that largely white, affluent "eco-elites" need to broaden their coalition by reaching out to low-income and minority youth, promising them training and jobs in the new clean energy economy. As he says: "For people with a bu ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Ideas should trump personalities Don't shoot the messengers	Jason D Scorse	19 Mar 2007	Gristmill
All social movements are susceptible to the 'cult of personality.' This is always dangerous. Not only are individuals invariably fallible, and never live up to the 'purity standards' often imposed on them, but it is their message that is most important, not the messengers.Within the environmental community, I have witnessed this personality frenzy at work in a variety of settings, which usually leads to a debasing of the dialogue. I fear that the recent uproar over Al ...
Topics: Al Gore, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Sticky Notes An interview with author Chip Heath about making environmental messages sticky	David Roberts	12 Mar 2007	Main Dish
Quick, what's the last political campaign slogan you remember? Is it the Democrats' recent zinger, "Together, we can do better"? Probably not. You probably forgot that one before they got to "better." Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Photo: Amy Surdacki In an age of instant media, ubiquitous advertising, and partisan politics, everyone wants to grab the public eye ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, green living, interview, messaging (all these topics)

Conservative conservationists? There's a coalition waiting	Jason D Scorse	27 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Not trying to play into stereotype, but my guess is that most people on Grist aren't regular readers of National Review. I am. And the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Cato Unbound, Reason, and many other right-leaning publications. I often disagree with what they say, but as I tell my students, understanding those you disagree with is more important than understanding those whose opinions you share. Also, every so often you come across an article like this, and you real ...
Topics: environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Priorities How do you choose yours?	Jason D Scorse	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
I had nightmares after reading Nicolas Kristof's gruesome description of the Guinea worm -- a two-foot worm that eats through people and pops out of their bodies in the most unpleasant places -- in his editorial on Jimmy Carter's work to eradicate the disease. Beside the sleepless night, the article helped to solidify two things for me.First, in this world we are but one among millions of creatures competing for resources. There are many out to kill us, but also many ...
Topics: health, water pollution, environmental movement (all these topics)

Putting a price tag on nature Environmentalism's confusing accounting	Adam Stein	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times published an interesting if somewhat odd piece in last week's magazine about efforts to coax the business community into loving the environment by assigning a dollar value to our natural resources, or 'ecosystem services.' So, for example, we learn that dung beetles provide $380 million of waste management services to the U.S. cattle industry. One mile of coastal wetland provides $2.4 million of storm protection. A nice fern is worth $4, or you can get ...
Topics: air pollution, business, environmental movement, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Bright Lines: An introduction A new path forward for climate change campaigners	Ken Ward	07 Feb 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Our climate agenda is inadequate and may even be detrimental to the sort of effort U.S. environmentalists must now undertake. I'd like to offer for comment an alternative 'bright lines' framework for climate action, and propose a shift in role and agenda for U.S. environmentalists that takes account of the circumstances in which we find ourselves and squarely faces the almost incomprehensible challenge before us. Our goal, put starkly and simp ...
Topics: environmental movement, innovation (all these topics)

We're all green now It's time for enviros to adjust to winning	David Roberts	29 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I had hoped to leave my ill-tempered rant behind, since the subject obviously irritates the hell out of me, my irritation obviously irritates the hell out of everyone else, and as was pointed out, the whole subject is something of a distraction. But as I'm now being compared to (called?) a rapist, I suppose I should chime back in. First, my writing must have been opaque, since interpretations ran all over the place, mostly wrong. It was not my intention to defend c ...
Topics: environmental movement, jackassery, messaging (all these topics)

What I learned from environmentalists this week Everything is lame	David Roberts	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The people at Living Homes are totally lame and hypocritical for designing a modular LEED platinum house, but making it too big. And putting too much glass on it. The Prius is totally lame because it gets worse gas mileage than it says, and also because it's not public transit. The Super Bowl is totally lame for offsetting all its carbon emissions in part by planting trees, which everybody knows aren't going to solve global warming. Tesco is totally lame for labeling ...
Topics: environmental movement, jackassery, messaging (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: The most important environmental books A top ten list from the U.K.	Peter Madden	19 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. What are the most important environmental books? At Forum for the Future, we polled 100 staff and colleagues from around the U.K. for the green books that had most influenced us, and came up with our top 10. The list spans the last 50 years, and contains the usual suspects -- as well as a few surprises. Small Is Beautiful and Silent ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Talking point: (one part of) a unified climate/energy agenda It's all about electricity	David Roberts	13 Dec 2006	Gristmill
When I talked with Terry Tamminen a while back (I'll publish it some day, I promise!), he said something that got me thinking. As Schwarzenegger's top enviro advisor, he's been on the inside, making policy and being lobbied from all sides. He's also been a part of several environmental NGOs, doing the lobbying. So he's seen policy contests from both sides. I asked him why green groups haven't been more effective on climate and energy issues. He said it's simple: when ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, renewable energy, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

What top environmental orgs have to say about animal welfare They don't ignore it	Jason D Scorse	05 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In order to further elucidate the role of animal welfare issues in environmentalism, let us examine mission statements from some of the top environmental organizations in the world. Let's start with the first line of the mission statement from the World Wildlife Fund: 'Protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.' Notice that WWF talks about protecting wild animals independently of whether the ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, endangered species, environmental movement, NRDC, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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