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From Say It to Spray It
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen |
17 Nov 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 17 Nov 2006 Word. Beating out Sudoku, bird flu, and persistent vegetative state, the New Oxford American Dictionary's word(s) of the year for 2006 is (are?) "carbon neutral." Personally, we wonder what happened to lanced, santorum, and Maf54. Which is why they don't let us write the dictionary. Photos: iStockphoto Tongue tried It's a dream come true: a cheap, long-lasting, carbon-based energy source that's e ... |
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From Blanchett to Bon Jovi
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Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen |
10 Nov 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 10 Nov 2006 Photo: Gregg DeGuire / WireImage.com The fellowship of the warming Of the thousands upon thousands who acted on International Day of Action on Global Warming, Galadriel Ms. Blanchett may have been the hottest elf protester of them all. But when it comes to convincing Aussie PM John Howard, Cate isn't enough. Though if she'd taken that ring from Frodo ... Fruit of the room We don't quite see the charm of ... |
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From Garner to Gizmos
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Katharine Wroth, Sarah van Schagen |
03 Nov 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Katharine Wroth and Sarah van Schagen 03 Nov 2006 Photo: Avik Gilboa / WireImage.com Give 'em the boot, Syd Ben Affleck and his adorable much-better half (alias Bennifer 2.0) will garner attention this weekend campaigning together for Defenders of Wildlife as the group seeks to unseat eco-hata Dick Pombo. Wake us when it's over. Insane in the Maine-brain Exhibiting wicked cunnin' judgment, the manager of two Maine TV stations has put the kibosh on global-warming repo ... |
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From Wild Men to Wild Nights
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Sarah van Schagen, Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter |
27 Oct 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter 27 Oct 2006 Photo: Nevada Wilderness Project The end is derriere When counting down the days 'til certain apocalypse, it's best to stay distracted. Thankfully, the Nevada Wilderness Project and University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse Progressives are both unveiling eco-themed nudie calendars for 2007. Naked rugged wild men or naked earnest coeds? We pick both. (Email for emailE=('wildmen@' + 'wildnevada.org') document.wri ... |
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From Real Life to Real Men
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Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
20 Oct 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 20 Oct 2006 Leo-topia Once upon a time, we swore we'd never watch reality TV, but now we're Dancing With the Bachelor's Top Model every week. And soon Leo may join the lineup, greening a yet-to-be-chosen American town (ooh, pick us! pick us!) in E-topia. But will it restore our dwindling dignity? Stay tuned. Photo: Steve Granitz / WireImage.com Photo: Tony Barson / WireImage.com All about Eve eco Place: Hollywood. Time: Rapi ... |
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From Ellen to Illin'
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
13 Oct 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 13 Oct 2006 Ay, there's the scrub First came the ads and webisodes showing Dawn detergent cleaning itty-bitty oil-soaked critters. Now Ellen DeGeneres is barking about becoming a seal on Dawn's world-saving website. Nemo has yet to comment on the development. Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage.com Photo: iStockphoto Remote controlled Channeling vintage Grist List, Connecticut has launched a "No Child Left Inside" campaign an ... |
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From Hatcher to Hogan
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen |
06 Oct 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 06 Oct 2006 Trailer of beers We wouldn't put it beyond Brit and K-Fed to shack up in a trailer park -- have ya seen him not in a 'beater? But we bring you a different desperate housewife altogether. Yes, it's solar-powered. Yes, it's set on an organic farm. But really, T-Hatch -- a trailer? Photo: Jesse Grant / WireImage.com Photo: iStockphoto Baby got humpback Hoping to spur action against Japanese whaling, animal-righ ... |
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From Centerfolds to 50 Cent
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
29 Sep 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 29 Sep 2006 Photo: Ecobabes.org June is bustin' out all over A 2007 calendar benefiting the Climate Protection Campaign will feature green models ranging from energy pushers and business owners to city councilchicks and hard-core ... cyclists. Their theme? "Ecobabes ... because beauty inspires life" -- and because sex (no matter how green) sells. Chinese chop tix Censorship, forced relocation, and a boatload of ec ... |
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From Malibu to MARTA
What's on our radar this week |
David Roberts, Sarah van Schagen |
22 Sep 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By David Roberts and Sarah van Schagen 22 Sep 2006 The OMG Environmental degradation threatens some of the world's most fascinating creatures in their native habitats. The Amazon rainforest. The Arctic. The coastal waters of Indonesia. Malibu, Calif. This last one, home of Americanus celebritus, is of particular concern. Won't you find it in your hearts to help? Photo: John Sciulli / WireImage.com Photo: iStockphoto Blew in the face Has it always been a dream of yours to ... |
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From Strippers to Stingrays
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen |
15 Sep 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 15 Sep 2006 It's getting hot in herre ... Climate scientists got hot and bothered last week when a group of burlesque dancers began a striptease at a government-sponsored conference in Australia. When the show started rubbing the researchers the wrong way, the seven performers were asked to pull out prematurely. Prius passes GO, collects more than $200 Monopoly has introduced a modernized Here & Now version, n ... |
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From Vixens to Vodka
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, David Roberts |
08 Sep 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and David Roberts 08 Sep 2006 Photo: VeganVixens.org If you're going to starve yourself skinny, why not go vegan? Call us crazy, but maybe a bevy of bone-thin women swaying listlessly on stage is not the best advertisement for a vegan diet (our first thought: woah, somebody needs a hamburger!). Memo to Vegan Vixens: show Americans they can be fat and lazy and vegan. Then you'll start to see some interest. Putting the hog in hedgehog After considerabl ... |
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From Cooling to Cooing
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter, Sarah van Schagen |
01 Sep 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter and Sarah van Schagen 01 Sep 2006 Photo: xeeliz, via Flickr Burn, baby, burn The Nevada desert is hot. So, coincidentally, is the planet. Enter Cooling Man, an online carbon calculator for this week's Burning Man arts festival (which features such sweet creations as the electric cupcake-mobile.) "We think Cooling Man is pretty cool," says one overbaked burner. And of course, by "overbaked," we mean "sunburned." ... |
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From Hurley to Hetchy
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, David Roberts |
25 Aug 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and David Roberts 25 Aug 2006 Photo: News International / WireImage.com Click to enlarge Certified orgasmic Liz Hurley has announced that she will give up acting, prompting an anguished nation to cry out, "Wait, when did Liz Hurley start acting?" Seems Hurley wants to devote herself full-time to her farm in England, which will soon go organic and get proper livestock. "I've joined the breeders' club already," said Hurley. Heh. Heh ... |
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From Kinky to Kicky
What's on our radar this week |
Katharine Wroth, Sarah van Schagen |
18 Aug 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Katharine Wroth and Sarah van Schagen 18 Aug 2006 Kinky is as Kinky does Texas guber-candidate Kinky Friedman is trading his Caddy for a biodiesel ride and wants Willie in his cabinet. Plus he's got his own action figure and a rockin' 'stache. Almost makes us want to pack up for the Lone Star State. Almost. Photo: Brian Kanof Photo: iStockphoto MyCage.com It's hard out here for a chimp an orangutan. So a Dutch zoo is setting up a webcam dating service to connect its pr ... |
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From Hova to Happy Meals
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, David Roberts |
11 Aug 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and David Roberts 11 Aug 2006 Photo: Jemal Countess / WireImage.com H to the two oh Shawn Carter Jigga Hova Jay-Z's got 99 problems, and clean water is one. "Every 15 seconds a child dies from not having access to clean water," said the hip-hop mogul, who has teamed up with the U.N. and MTV to raise awareness about the world's water crisis. "I want people to know that while they're having their Poland Spring at Cipriani." Rock ... |
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From Guzzlers to Greenlanders
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
04 Aug 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 04 Aug 2006 Size does matter Fingering the Hummer H2 is so last year. The latest trend in Hummer humiliation? Video of die-hard haters humping the gas guzzlers. If a picture's worth 1,000 words, this specimen is infinity squared. (Safe for work, but only if your boss has a sense of Hummer humor.) Photo: ihumpedyourhummer.com Damn those special effects Drought-stricken Brits have walloped Woody for being wasteful. Seems th ... |
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From Roberts to Redford
What's on our radar this week |
David Roberts, Sarah van Schagen |
28 Jul 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By David Roberts and Sarah van Schagen 28 Jul 2006 The Brockovich is back America's sweetheart (back off, Witherspoon!) Julia Roberts has agreed to serve as a spokes-star for clean-energy developers Earth Biofuels, joining fellow Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and country singer Willie Nelson. We're glad she's green and all, but still, let's hope she burned that unsettling sprite get-up from Vanity Fair. Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage.com Photo: Tesla Motors. Electric st ... |
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From Hot to Hott
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
21 Jul 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 21 Jul 2006 Photo: iStockphoto. AC dicey Americans know what to do when it's hotter than firecrotch out there: crank the AC and use more juice than ever before! We salute thee, supreme energy-suckers. Conservation be damned. Drink. Lick. Stir. Repeat. Beat the heat with a chill "Lollipoptail" -- so named when Cynthia Nixon dipped an organic Pomegranate Pucker sucker into her drink. Pass the vanilla vodka, Cyn. Not that we're ... |
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From Wine to Wood
What's on our radar this week |
David Roberts, Sarah van Schagen |
14 Jul 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By David Roberts and Sarah van Schagen 14 Jul 2006 Photo: carlorossi.com Nice jugs When winemaker Carlo Rossi looks at a pair of jugs, he sees art. His new furniture collection -- or "functional pieces of pure jug leisure" -- includes a Chardonnay Chandelier, a Cabernet Couch, and a Sangria Sound System. For this oenophile, it's all about "jug shui." The "Greatest Generation" thing was a ruse This Sunday, beloved ex-anchor, reborn enviro, and t ... |
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From Succor to Soccer
What's on our radar this week |
Katharine Wroth |
07 Jul 2006 |
The Grist List |
| View unto others A group called Inconvenient Christians (best! name! ever!) is offering "committed, Bible-believing" peeps free tix to Al Gore's movie. In return, Truth-seekers agree to post mini-reviews on the group's site -- and to shut up about The Da Vinci Code already. Weather or not China to scientists: Stop carrying out fraudulent research. If you don't, we will publicly shame you. Seriously. Except for you, guy who says w ... |
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From Vengeance to Vision
What's on our radar this week |
Katharine Wroth |
30 Jun 2006 |
The Grist List |
| We're not saying there's a god But if there were, do you think He might fell a tree on the lawn of a flawed figurehead? Perhaps flood a few of the iconic institutions run by that person's cabal? You know ... if there were. Heads up It's almost time for the Running of the Nudes! But the annual Pamplona flabfest is missing one key element of any self-respecting animal rights-cum-boob event: a good rhyme scheme. Photo: PETA. I'm with stu ... |
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From Poop to Pod
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Sarah Kraybill |
23 Jun 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Sarah Kraybill 23 Jun 2006 Forest dump If you drop some logs in a national park and no restroom cleaners are around to hear it, does it make a sound? We'll soon find out, as budget crunches are forcing cutbacks on park luxuries ... like clean bathrooms. Said one pooper of a Yosemite restroom, "It looked like nothing had been done to it in the last 30 years." Um, ew. Photo: iStockphoto. Photo: Jeff Vespa/ WireImage.com Who let the dogs out? ... |
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From Iowa to I Owe Ya
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, Katharine Wroth |
16 Jun 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and Katharine Wroth 16 Jun 2006 Sometimes a basin is just a basin Personally, we don't see anything unusual about the shape of this Des Moines, Iowa, water detention basin. Nope, not a thing. But apparently, some locals have started saying it looks like -- well, you know. That's bollocks! Photo: Polk County Assessor's Office. Photo: AP/Paul Sakuma. It's not that easy being red Say you've got a campaign to win -- would a lime-green eco-bus get you th ... |
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From Inconvenient to Indiana
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, David Roberts |
09 Jun 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and David Roberts 09 Jun 2006 Don't hate the narrata, hate the game Much to the surprise of playa hataz, An Inconvenient Truth -- starring the allegedly "stiff" Al Gore -- is doing gangbuster box office, boasting the industry's highest per-screen average. This is driving certain parties nuts, leading to incoherent screeds and comparisons of Gore to both Goebbels and Hitler. Schadenfreude, friends. Live it. I'm mockin' it! At a recen ... |
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From Trust Fundies to Travel Finds
What's on our radar this week |
Sarah van Schagen, David Roberts |
02 Jun 2006 |
The Grist List |
| By Sarah van Schagen and David Roberts 02 Jun 2006 Snow job College Republican chapters across the country have begun hosting "Global Cooling Day" events to debunk the myths deny the facts about global warming. There are kiddie pools, sand, girls in bikinis, even free snow cones. Ah, rich white kids -- never funnier than when they're mocking the disease and death awaiting the global poor. Wocka wocka! Photo courtesy of College Republican National Co ... |
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