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15 Cities, 15 Days, Destination: Green Grist and Dell hit the road in search of a sustainable future	Sarah van Schagen	22 Sep 2008	Gristmill
It feels like just a year ago that I was traveling down the Mississippi in search of sustainable cities. Well, I'm on the road again -- this time with a much more ambitious itinerary: 15 cities, 15 days, destination: green. I'm in San Francisco right now, but I'm headed all the way across the country, baby. And dude, I'm getting a Dell! Actually, I'm getting a Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell's eco-minded site ReGeneration.org. The two of us are hitting ...
Topics: shameless self-promotion, ReGeneration Roadtrip, cars, San Francisco, green living, tech (all these topics)

Wikigreenia An interview with Wikia's Jimmy Wales about his new green venture	Sara Barz	19 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Jimmy Wales. Jimmy Wales, best known as a cofounder of Wikipedia, is now channeling some of his energy and ambition into the environmental realm, aiming to build "the world's handbook for going green." Wikia, Inc., Wales' for-profit company (not to be confused with Wikipedia, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation), announced this month that it's launching Wikia Green, w ...
Topics: green living, interview, tech, websites (all these topics)

From Eva to Earthquake What's on our radar this week	Sarah K. Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen	19 Sep 2008	The Grist List
By Sarah K. Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 19 Sep 2008 Happily Eva after What do you do when Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson want your number? You answer the call. Photo: Courtesy Greenpeace Brother, can you spare me some climate change? Booted from the Arctic by the subprime mortgage crisis global warming, the population of homeless polar bears in D.C. is exploding. And any of them with hopes of ever returning home are facing a cold, hard reality. Drawn on the d ...
Topics: green living, Grist List, lists (all these topics)

You Give Climate Change a Bad Name Jon Bon Jovi will play Live Earth concert in Mumbai		18 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 18 Sep 2008 After seven concerts on seven continents on 7/7/07, Live Earth has downsized (you may have noticed that 8/8/08 passed by with nary a warble). On Thursday, organizers Al Gore and Kevin Wall announced plans for a Dec. 7 Live Earth concert in Mumbai, India. The show will feature "some of the biggest artists from India to the U.S. and beyond," says Wall. Jon Bon Jovi and ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, India, music, news (all these topics)

The Pesto Chronicles When the basil plants get out of control, reach for the mortar and pestle	Kurt Michael Friese	18 Sep 2008	Chef's Diary
Mortarin' pesto. September in Iowa always brings the same delicious dilemma -- what to do with all that basil. Few herbs are as surrounded by mythology and folklore as basil. Its origins are debated, but most seem to think it came from India. There, the plant offered innumerable culinary uses: A devout Hindu has a leaf of basil placed on his breast when he dies, as ...
Topics: advice, Chef's Diary, food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Graduate Cool A recent grad follows her passions and finds a green job she digs	Amy Linn	18 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
All college students know the feeling -- that squeaky little hamster wheel of doubt about life post-diploma. What if I can't find a job? What if I can't find a job I like? What if I can't find a job that aligns with my values? Ditch that hamster wheel and climb on two wheels that can take you places, Maya Donelson would tell you. A 2006 graduate of New York's Syracuse University, Donels ...
Topics: education, gardening, grassroots activism, green living, San Francisco (all these topics)

Frisky Business To engage other students, green activists put their best fête forward	Amy Linn	18 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
A pop quiz for the college crowd: Which of the following is no fun? A) Beer B) Doing it in the dark C) Global warming activism D) This is a trick question -- they're all related If you picked C, you're forgiven, says Maura Cowley, campaign director for the Sierra Student Coalition. But, dude, you're so wrong. The right answer, of course, is D. Today's campus eco-actions involve al ...
Topics: beer, campus activism, education, green living (all these topics)

Good Site, and Good Luck Resources to help you green your college experience		18 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
The sites below aim to help you find the right green-leaning campus, cause, or contest. There's no way we've uncovered all the good ones, so tell us what we've missed in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Green College Rankings Sustainable Endowment Institute's "College Sustainability Report Card" Princeton Review's "Green Rating Honor Roll" Kaplan College Guide's list of 25 ...
Topics: campus activism, education, green living (all these topics)

Tesla profile in New Scientist	Sara Barz	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
For those upset about the bashing electric vehicles have taken recently, check out this glowing profile ($ub. req'd) of Tesla -- and its Roadster -- in New Scientist magazine today. The Roadster does 0-60 in four seconds, tops out at 130 mph, and only costs $109,000 (sigh ... not in this writer's budget this year). Pedestrians and cyclists beware, the Roadster's 248 horsepower electric engine makes less noise than a golf-cart, but its 450 kg lithium-ion battery would pac ...
Topics: green living, cars, electric vehicles (all these topics)

'Should go over big with the tree huggers ... ' Truth in advertising	biodiversivist	17 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Check out this pearl from commenter David Ahlport (found in the comments of David Roberts' Cost Tic post). I'm a proponent of using ads to spread ideas. The problem with most ads is that they are at best half-truths. This one has it all. They draw a gentle and humorous line between themselves and negative stereotypes. Going green should not be about sacrifice and depravation deprivation. I have seen a few versions of this while channel surfing. We could use a l ...
Topics: advertising, business, green living, video (all these topics)

I Am Freshman, Hear Me Roar Incoming Yale student plans to ramp up her activism for the big leagues	Amy Linn	17 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
For some people, life starts after college. For Karoline Evin McMullen, it began in middle school. Karoline Evin McMullen Age: 18 School: Yale University By the time she was 14, McMullen of rural Geauga County, Ohio, had already: written a textbook for elementary school kids; started a project with two friends to protect endangered brook trout; won a Christopher Columbus ...
Topics: campus activism, education, grassroots activism, green living (all these topics)

For Quad and Country Seven tips on green campus organizing from a Harvard pro	Katharine Wroth	17 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Leith Sharp. When Leith Sharp left her native Australia for a five-month tour of the U.S. and Europe in the late 1990s, she could hardly have guessed that she'd be gone for a decade. But that's exactly what happened. Sharp had spent five years piloting eco-efforts at the University of New South Wales, in a paid position that was not only a first for the school, but was also one of the ...
Topics: campus activism, education, grassroots activism, green building, green living (all these topics)

Supreme Cork Justice On wine bottle stoppers	Umbra Fisk	17 Sep 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Here's a question I couldn't find an answer to in the Grist archives: What kind of plastic is being used for the corks in wine bottles? If I decide to put a bottle in the cellar for several years, will the plastic leach into the wine? Thanks for your help! Holli B. Portland, Ore. Dearest Holli, No need to fret: Wine bottles plugged by plastic stoppers or screw-tops can be stored upright, with the plastic separate ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, booze, ecological footprint, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

The revolution will not be grumpetized The automotive revolution: how fast?	David Roberts	17 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Wall Street Journal senior editor Joseph B. White attempts to dump some cold water on the "automotive revolution" everyone's all giddy about: This revolution will take years to pull off -- and that's assuming it isn't derailed by a return to cheap oil. Anyone who goes to sleep today and wakes up in five years will find that most cars for sale in the U.S. will still run on regular gas -- with a few more than today taking diesel fuel. That will likely be ...
Topics: cars, economy, electric vehicles, green living (all these topics)

The half-life of convenience Will train travel get annoying too?	David Roberts	16 Sep 2008	Gristmill
As more trains catch up to air travel, time-wise, one thing that can put them over the top is the time saved avoiding the hassles of getting to the airport, parking, security, waiting, etc. But what if one of the first mid- or long-range train systems suffers some kind of attack, or even threat of attack? A pipe bomb, a lone gunman, what have you. Immediately would come the metal detectors, shoe examinations, long lines, and the rest of it. Train travel would becom ...
Topics: air travel, green living, public transportation, trains (all these topics)

The Television Will Be Revolutionized How to green your entertainment center		16 Sep 2008	From A to Green
When it comes to watching television, it's practically your environmental duty to gaze at Adrian Grenier on Planet Green and cheer on Major League Baseball's efforts to become more sustainable. (That's what we tell ourselves, anyway.) But did you know the chemicals in that idiot box could be rotting your brain even more than the trashy reality shows? The lead in TVs and even dust resting on top have come ...
Topics: advice, energy at home, energy efficiency, From A to Green, green living, TV (all these topics)

Goody for U! 15 creative ways that students and colleges are going greener	Holly Richmond	16 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Kappa and Trade Green the Greeks, a student organization at UCLA, is trying to educate the school's Greek system about sustainability issues. Frats and sororities use a disproportionate amount of energy, the group says, so it's aiming to "harness the resources of the Greek community for the environment," its website explains. The rush to get eco-friendly is happening elsewhere, too: ...
Topics: campus activism, education, green living (all these topics)

Sick transit Public transit and oil dependence	David Roberts	16 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Those of you interested in strengthening the ability of public transportation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil should check out Congressional testimony from Brookings metropolitan policy expert Robert Puentes, entitled, um, "Strengthening the Ability of Public Transportation to Reduce Our Dependence on Foreign Oil." I'm not sure the general public -- or even the interested, paying-attention public -- is aware of just how dysfunctional our system for a ...
Topics: Congress, green living, legislation, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Disease-y Does It New study links BPA to heart disease and diabetes		16 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:58 AM on 16 Sep 2008 Ubiquitous chemical bisphenol A is linked to heart disease and diabetes, says new research released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Food and Drug Administration recently declared that BPA is safe; the new study's release was timed to coincide with an independent panel's review of that conclusion. Researchers studied urine samples from 1,455 American adults; BPA wa ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Reaching the Summit Student activist gets Phoenix buzzing with green biz expo	Amy Linn	16 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
Chris Samila Age: 23 School: Arizona State University Sometimes people do things because they don't realize they can't. If this makes no sense to you, you haven't met Chris Samila, a (permanent, as he jokingly puts it) senior at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he had some epiphanies, founded a business (Green Summit Inc.), and somehow managed to pull off a wildly successful green busi ...
Topics: business, campus activism, education, green living, greenish companies (all these topics)

Greener by Degrees A Grist special series on college eco-activism		16 Sep 2008	Grist Feature
It's that time again. College students have settled into their dorms, started their classes, checked out some parties, and started cramming for the gnarliest pass-fail test of all time: saving the planet. Not all students are engaged in green endeavors, of course, but fast-growing numbers are -- and the results have been eye-popping. Students today join green frats, launch green business ventures, and host green bas ...
Topics: campus activism, education, green living (all these topics)

'Transition Towns' get ink	JMG	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The Christian Science Monitor -- one of the best of a dying breed ---does an excellent job on the "Transition Towns" movement here.
Topics: climate, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Ace reporter joins Environmental Health News Marla Cone to lead expanded news operation	Russ Walker	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Award-winning environment reporter Marla Cone is leaving the Los Angeles Times to join the ranks of nonprofit journalism, becoming the top editor of Environmental Health News starting today. Cone, whose work at the L.A. Times includes a series of articles highlighting the environmental threat posed by brominated flame retardants and investigations into the health of ocean ecosystems, will spearhead an expanded news operation dedicated to producing original, investigat ...
Topics: green living, health (all these topics)

'The car of the perpetual future' The Economist agrees with me on hydrogen	Joseph Romm	14 Sep 2008	Gristmill
When the world's uber-centrist magazine of choice runs a headline almost identical to mine, you know it's all over. Especially when one of that magazine's leading energy columnists, Vijay Vaitheeswaran, used to sing that technology's praises (here). Here's the bottom line: But the promise of hydrogen-powered personal transport seems as elusive as ever. The non-emergence of hydrogen cars over the past decade is particularly notable since hydrogen power has been a ...
Topics: cars, energy, green living, hydrogen (all these topics)

From Wiener to Whimper What's on our radar this week	Sarah van Schagen, Sarah K. Burkhalter	12 Sep 2008	The Grist List
By Sarah van Schagen and Sarah K. Burkhalter 12 Sep 2008 Rubbed the wrong way Climate-change impact aside, here's another reason not to have meat in the house: "The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch sausage." The Iceman steameth Seems Mr. Kilmer is making a Val-iant effort to bring global warming to the big screen: This summer, he faced the thaw of death; now, ...
Topics: green living, Grist List (all these topics)

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