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Jason and the Carbonauts Obama energy adviser Jason Grumet talks climate, coal, and transportation policy	David Roberts	06 May 2008	Gristmill
As executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of 20 energy experts created in 2002, Jason Grumet has come in for some flack from environmentalists. NCEP's influential 2004 energy report called for several measures anathema to greens, including a "safety valve" that would set an upper limit on the price of carbon and CO2 permit giveaways to coal utilities and other big polluters. But Grumet's experience finessing the ...
Topics: Barack Obama, energy, interview, legislation, politics (all these topics)

The Best Defense An interview with Fred Krupp, author of Earth: The Sequel and president of EDF	David Roberts	05 May 2008	Grist Feature
Fred Krupp. Fred Krupp has been piloting Environmental Defense Fund since he left private law practice in 1984. It hasn't gone badly: Under Krupp's leadership, the group has become an influential player in the deepest halls of power, with an annual budget that's ballooned from $3 million to $71.8 million. A substantial measure of EDF's success and credibility stems fro ...
Topics: books, business, carbon trading, climate, economy, Environmental Defense Fund, interview (all these topics)

Lipstick Bungle An interview with Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics	Katharine Wroth	02 May 2008	Grist Feature
Stacy Malkan. Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. But given the load of toxic chemicals in everyday products like shampoo, deodorant, and makeup, that superficial truth is still cause for concern. With increasing frequency, studies point to hidden dangers in the medicine cabinet: things like lead in lipstick, phthalates in baby lotions, aluminum in deodorant. While the am ...
Topics: consumerism, grassroots activism, green living, health, interview, shopping, toxics (all these topics)

Drawing on Experience Architect R.K. Stewart on building the future of sustainable design	Sarah van Schagen	25 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
If you build it, they will come. But if you build it green, you just may be able to save the planet. R.K. Stewart. Or so says a recent report, which suggests that green building could help cut North America's greenhouse-gas emissions more quickly and less expensively than any other measure. And word is getting out about the promise of this fast-growing field -- some have ev ...
Topics: art, climate, green building, interview, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green An interview with Vinod Khosla	David Roberts	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Adam Lashinsky interviews Vinod Khosla. I liveblog. VK's four major investment areas: oil, coal, efficiency, and materials. AL: India finance minister called biofuels a crime against humanity. What up? VK: Food-based ethanol isn't the big driver of food prices. Regardless, biofuels don't have to be food-based. AL: But you've invested in food-based ethanol. VK: Only one, Cilian (sp?), to see if we could get a big reduction. But cellulosic has moved so quickly, ...
Topics: coal, energy, ethanol, interview (all these topics)

John Voyage McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin opens up on climate and energy	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-no ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

McCain's climate policy A conversation with McCain policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Opinions differ on the quality of John McCain's domestic policy agenda, but you'd have trouble finding anyone in Washington who would disparage the man he's chosen as one of his top advisers. Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a dauntingly long resume and a reputation among policy wonks on both sides of the aisle for fair-minded number crunching. He has taught economics at top-notch universities, served as a senior economist in both Bush administrations, and run the Congressi ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, interview, John McCain, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The Spore Against Terror A biologist explains what security experts can learn from nature	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Raphael Sagarin. Marine biologist Raphael Sagarin has eclectic interests. During the course of his career, he's scoured an Alaskan gambling record for clues to climate change, retraced John Steinbeck's and Ed Ricketts' survey of the Sea of Cortez, and even studied how Easy Cheese escaped early chlorofluorocarbon regulations. In 2002, as a science fellow on Capitol Hill, he tu ...
Topics: books, interview, politics, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

We Built This SolarCity Entrepreneur Lyndon Rive wants to solarize your house for a low, low price	Lisa Hymas	11 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Would you pay $25,000 to $30,000 to put solar panels on your home? If you're like most cash-strapped Americans, you'd balk at that five-figure expense, no matter how green you aspire to be. OK, what if you could do it for $1,000 or $2,000? SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive. SolarCity, based in sunny Silicon Valley, has just launched a new program that will push the upfront costs ...
Topics: energy, green jobs, greenish companies, interview, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Hollywood Heavies Elton John, Lindsay Lohan, and 50 Cent unite to free a killer whale -- meet the man who brought them together	Sarah van Schagen	04 Apr 2008	Grist Feature
Celebs are flipping out over Lolita's living conditions. Photo: Krosstok Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy's current project involves an impressive cast ranging from Johnny Depp, Lindsay Lohan, and Harrison Ford to Elton John, 50 Cent, and Pl�cido Domingo. He's attracted high-powered producers including Cameron Crowe, Ed Elbert, and Ron ...
Topics: animal welfare, celebrity, grassroots activism, interview, oceans (all these topics)

All the World's a Shag Catching up with our favorite European eco-porn activists	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Ellingsen (left), Johansson (second from right), and friends at their "Wild Climax Refuge" in Costa Rica. Courtesy FFF Nearly four years ago, Lissa Harris wrote a titillating Grist profile of two European activists who were, as she put it, "raising cash to save the rainforest, one money shot at a time." That story, "Norwegian Wood," became one of Grist's a ...
Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, green living, interview, rainforests, sex (all these topics)

Aspen Env't Forum: The word on gray wolves Wolf recovery chief Ed Bangs talks about the species' delisting	Lisa Hymas	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The gray wolf population in the northern Rocky Mountains is being dropped from the federal endangered species list on Friday, and on Thursday I just happened to run smack into Ed Bangs, the wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Such is life at the Aspen Environment Forum.) Bangs oversaw the celebrated and controversial reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996, when the ni ...
Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, interview, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: A chat with Jim Rogers Duke Energy CEO defends the need for free permit allocations	David Roberts	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
One of the most interesting political dynamics emerging around climate policy is the clash between coal utilities and utilities that rely more on natural gas and nuclear. (Most of the former are regulated, while most of the latter are, to one extent or another, deregulated or restructured.) Gas and nuke utilities stand to benefit from a cap-and-trade program that prices carbon steeply and quickly, since their fleets are already (relatively) low-carbon. Coal utilities ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenish companies, interview (all these topics)

Nader on the Record An interview with Ralph Nader about his presidential platform on energy and the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
This is part of a series of interviews with presidential candidates. Ralph Nader. Photo: Sage Ross He brought you the seat belt. He launched a consumer advocacy empire. He got 2,883,105 votes in the 2000 presidential election, which critics argue helped put George W. Bush in the White House. Ralph Nader has earned fame -- and infamy -- for many d ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, interview, politics, presidential race 08, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

Fighting Dirty An interview with the founders of Method green home-care products	Sarah van Schagen	14 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
After spending a few minutes with Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, I began to wonder if they weren't part of a modern-day adaptation of The Odd Couple. The 30-something founders of the Method line of home-care products, friends since high school, are about as different as two business partners could be. Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry. Lowry (Method's "chief greens keeper") is tall and l ...
Topics: art, business, consumerism, green cleaning, green living, green products, innovation, interview (all these topics)

The Company He Keeps An interview with eco-certification expert Michael Conroy	Katharine Wroth	07 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Michael Conroy. Photo: Chris Conroy Photography As a shopper, you can't turn around without running into some type of green label, from Fair Trade to FSC-certified. But what do they all mean, and where the hell did they even come from? Economist Michael Conroy digs into the history behind these increasingly common labels in his book Branded!: How the 'Certification Revolution' Is Transfo ...
Topics: books, business, consumerism, green products, greening biz operations, interview, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Bruce Almighty An interview with green designer and TV personality John Bruce	Sarah van Schagen	29 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
John Bruce is living in a material world. But he's no cone-chested pop star -- he's a green designer. A green designer who, during the course of an hour-long conversation, speaks excitedly about various eco-building materials, professing his love for natural clay plaster and calling sunflower-seed-based particle board "super beautiful." He even credits his love of such materia ...
Topics: green building, green living, green products, interview, TV (all these topics)

Boogie Woogie Google Boy An interview with Google's green energy czar, Bill Weihl	Amanda Griscom Little	07 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
The phrase "to Google" has become synonymous with "to search." But soon it may connote something altogether different: "to green." That is, if the internet titan can successfully pull off its latest world-changing endeavor. Bill Weihl. In late 2007, the dot-com giant announced its intention to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. The RE<C pro ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, coal, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations, greenish companies, interview, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Whither the alternative energy market? Q&A with Eric Janszen on whether an alt-energy bubble is in the making	Mark Pawlosky	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Eric Janszen Eric Janszen, the founder and president of iTulip.com, recently argued in Harper's Magazine that the alternative energy segment is a prime candidate for a massive asset bubble, potentially dwarfing both the dot-com and housing bubbles. I wrote about Janszen's prediction last week. This week, Janszen joins us for a question-and-answer follow-up.Grist: You make a convincing argument that a financial bubble in the alternative energy industry ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, interview, investing, renewable energy, tech (all these topics)

The Bitch Is Back An interview with Rory Freedman, coauthor of vegan manifesto Skinny Bitch	Sarah van Schagen	25 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
It would be impossible to make it through an entire lunch with Rory Freedman without realizing this simple truth: The bitch loves food. Excuse my language -- or actually, don't. Freedman wouldn't say it any other way. Rory Freedman (left), with coauthor Kim Barnouin. Photo: Tim VanOrden After all, she and former model Kim Barnouin are coauthors of the New York Times bes ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Charlie Crist Superstar An interview with Florida's governor, a Republican climate crusader	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
Charlie Crist. Photo:Steven Murphy/WireImage Meet Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a surprising blend of Grand Ol' Party and bleeding-heart greenie. As a Republican, he defends the Bush administration's environmental record, but he also counts among his personal heroes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote an entire book condemning Bush as "America's worst environmental pre ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, Florida, interview, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Rice Versa An interview with Andrew Rice, the Democrat challenging GOP Sen. James Inhofe	David Roberts	07 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
Andrew Rice. No national politician has done more to antagonize the environmental community than James Inhofe, Republican senator from Oklahoma. As chair of the Senate Environment Committee in the last Congress, and now as its ranking minority member, he has waged war on environmental legislation and acted as a one-man firewall stopping efforts to address global warming, which he ...
Topics: elections, interview, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Shake, Rattle, and Carol An interview with Carol Moseley Braun about her biodynamic food company	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
This election season, Carol Moseley Braun isn't gunning to become the first black president or the first female president. (Been there, done that.) Instead, she's trying to break ground in another arena, one she considers vastly more satisfying than politics: food. Healthy, organic, biodynamic food. Carol Moseley Braun. Photo: AP / Seth Perlman In 2002, after a co ...
Topics: food, greenish companies, interview (all these topics)

More 'corn supremacy' stuff A couple of additions to this week's Victual Reality column	Tom Philpott	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In this week's Victual Reality, we ran an interview I did recently with officials from the National Corn Growers Association and the American Farmland Trust. I edited the transcript in a certain amount of haste (it was right during the chaos of our Sow What? series on food and farming) -- and I left out a couple of noteworthy bits. See below the fold. I found it fascinating that these industrial corn guys can be pro-market zealots on one topic, and blithely dependent ...
Topics: agriculture, food, interview (all these topics)

The Corn Supremacy A conversation with a spokesperson for the National Corn Growers Association and his friend from the American Farmland Trust	Tom Philpott	25 Oct 2007	Victual Reality
The productivity of U.S. corn farmers should inspire awe. According to the U.S. Grains Council, the U.S. produces about 44 percent of the globe's corn crop -- that's more than China, the European Union, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico combined. Iowa alone, which produces a sixth of U.S. corn, produces about as much as the Eu ...
Topics: agriculture, industrial ag, interview, Victual Reality (all these topics)

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