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Vanity is Green
Digging into the relationships between business and environmentalism |
Maywa Montenegro |
07 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Admittedly, this is more of a link dump than a true blog post, but sometimes the green goodness is too good to pass up ... As Sarah and David have mentioned, the May edition of Vanity Fair is their third annual green issue. Featuring, ironically, the material girl on the cover, it's crammed with features that will enlighten, illuminate, and ... disturb.Pulitzer prize-winning journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele investigate Monsanto. ('We've never writt ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, celebrity, green living, music, shopping (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Thao Nguyen
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David Roberts |
04 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Thao Nguyen is a San Francisco singer-songwriter who sometimes tours with her band as Thao with the Get Down Sit Down. That's about all I know about her. I love this song from her new album We Brave Bee Stings and All. |
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| Topics: green living, music, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Luda v. Lee
Rapper, rocker compete in eco-reality show |
Sarah van Schagen |
01 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Rapper Ludacris and rocker Tommy Lee will be teaming up for a new eco-reality series called Battleground Earth. Together, the motley crew (!) will compete in various challenges aimed at highlighting green issues -- though the show is actually 'designed to emphasize entertainment over eco-preaching.' Hmm ... ya think? |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music, TV (all these topics) |
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Green issues galore
Paper mags go green(ish) for one month |
Sarah van Schagen |
01 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The third annual 'Green Issue' of Vanity Fair has arrived: Although Madonna graces the cover, the story inside makes no mention of greenness ... including her 'eco-song' and headlining gig last summer at Live Earth. Altogether an interesting choice for the 'green issue,' though I applaud the absence of sweater belts. The cover promises other stories of a greener hue, including:'A Letter to the Next President' by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (perhaps an invitation to se ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, deforestation, energy at home, green living, magazines, music, shopping (all these topics) |
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Can she get a napkin please?
Impromptu food court musical |
Sarah van Schagen |
29 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| They promise that they're not wasting trees ... |
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| Topics: art, funnies, waste, music (all these topics) |
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My Brightest Diamond is the earth's best friend
Shara chats about animals, organics, and recycling |
Sarah van Schagen |
28 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Check out this video of indie artist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond at South by Southwest as she chats about her love for animals, organic foods, and recycling: My Brightest Diamond at SXSWUploaded by NRDC |
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| Topics: food, green living, music, oceans, organic food (all these topics) |
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Livin' on a hair
Bon Jovi to offset next tour |
Sarah van Schagen |
25 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Photo: Stephen Lovekin/WireImage. Remember back in 2006, when Jon Bon Jovi said he got into green stuff to offset his hair spray-related indiscretions in the past? Allow me to remind you: Actual quote: 'Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill? ... It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the '80s.' Well, apparently he's still doing penance ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, celebrity, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Kathleen Edwards
An out-of-the-blue classic from up Canada way |
David Roberts |
21 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Sometimes an artist you've categorized and filed away surprises you. So it is with Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards. Her 2003 debut Failer introduced her as a total kick in the pants -- an Americana-tinged female singer who combined disarming vulnerability with raspy, almost confrontational bluntness. The follow-up, Back to Me, sounded les ... |
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| Topics: music (all these topics) |
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Culture war: country music edition
Global warming could thaw relations between enviros and those who live closest to 'the environment' |
Adam Stein |
18 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I wasn't particularly planning to continue on the culture war beat, but then, I wasn't expecting Orion Magazine to publish exactly the type of article of which I'd like to see more. In 'One Nation Under Elvis,' author and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit uses music -- specifically country music -- as a jumping off point to examine the cultural and class markers that divide a movement from itself. It's become a bit trite to say that climate change isn't (or shouldn't be) ... |
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| Topics: politics, music, green living (all these topics) |
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Ever heard of a little film called Free Willy?
This is what happens when Hollywood saves the whales |
Sarah van Schagen |
12 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 50 Cent. A motley crew of Hollywood homeboys may be banding together for a benefit concert to free Lolita, a killer whale who's lived in captivity for four decades performing at the Miami Seaquarium. Efforts to return Lolita to her Pacific Northwest home have been underway for years, but it hasn't gotten much press until Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy signed on to help bring aboard as many stars as he could. So far, he's reportedly delivered J ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, celebrity, green living, music, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Feeling peckish?
Moby's new video pokes at KFC |
Sarah van Schagen |
07 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Bald techno-greenie Moby sends a chicken pimp after the Colonel in his "Disco Lies" video: 'Disco lies' from Moby on Vimeo. |
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| Topics: celebrity, food, green living, music, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Tick tock
Listen to 'Ohio' by Damien Jurado |
David Roberts |
04 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| While we all wait. |
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| Topics: elections, music, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08, state politics (all these topics) |
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Blackout Sabbath
Rufus Wainwright's energy campaign |
Sarah van Schagen |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Popera sweetheart Rufus Wainwright has done Judy! Judy! Judy! and now he's doing Blackout Sabbath -- emphasis on the out. This newest venture isn't a tribute album; it's an energy conservation campaign. Inspired by the NYC blackout in 2003, Wainwright is proposing we all turn out our lights and unplug appliances for 12 hours starting at noon on June 21, 2008, the summer solstice. He's also asking for donations of refrigerator magnets to be handed out at an u ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, energy, energy at home, music (all these topics) |
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Theo
Will.i.am. releases new video for Obama |
David Roberts |
01 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Among those I know, reaction to this new will.i.am video has been unanimous: 'Is that Theo Huxtable?! |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, celebrity, elections, music, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Medeski Martin & Wood
Funky kids' music |
David Roberts |
29 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| There are few bands with which I have a longer ongoing relationship than jazz-funk-improv trio Medeski Martin & Wood. I think I'm one of the few people that started listening to them when their first album came out -- Notes from the Underground, way back in 1991, when I was [gulp] a sophomore in college. That record was strai ... |
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| Topics: music (all these topics) |
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Thom Yorke's big ask
Radiohead frontman leads climate campaign |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is once again leading Friends of the Earth's Big Ask Campaign. (Hey, he likes Big Ask and he cannot lie.) The campaign calls on 17 countries and the European Union to sign on to legally binding, yearly greenhouse-gas emissions targets. More specifically, FoE is asking the E.U. to adopt a target of at least 30 percent reductions by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050. And to stop making "big ass" jokes. |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, music (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: She & Him
An actor turns to singing and fails to suck |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I have an enormous and longstanding celebrity crush on actress Zooey Deschanel. I was a Deschanelophile way back when I saw her in Mumford, and then Almost Famous sealed the deal. My wife and I even loved Elf, the dumb 2003 xmas comedy with Will Ferrell. Some of the cutest parts of that movie are when Deschanel breaks into song: Pretty good v ... |
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| Topics: music (all these topics) |
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Of Vice and Men
Grist puts a green eye to sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll |
Sarah van Schagen |
22 Feb 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Photo: iStockphoto "Sex and drugs and rock and roll are very good indeed." -- Ian Dury Green may be the flavor of the week, the word du jour, the go-to adjective for everyone from ad execs to activists -- but between you and me, researching all the do's and don'ts of eco-sainthood can get a bit heavy. In the midst of all this sobering work, sometimes a gal (even a green one) just w ... |
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| Topics: advice, consumerism, funnies, green living, music, sex (all these topics) |
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A hunk, a hunk of burnin' love
Why burning a vinyl album is a bad idea |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Thursday night, a group of us Grist gals headed out to The Stranger's Valentine's Day Bash -- a yearly purge for Seattle's lovelorn wherein the wronged bring in mementos of their failed relationship and host Dan Savage destroys them on stage in some sick and twisted but totally satisfying way. (Fret not, old boyfriends, I didn't destroy anything of yours ...) Weapons of choice include a sledgehammer, a power saw, liquid nitrogen, men's urinals, a high-powered blend ... |
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| Topics: advice, green living, health, music, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Wonder Down Under
Aussie musician Xavier Rudd chats about coming to America and greening his tour |
Sarah van Schagen |
15 Feb 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Xavier Rudd. Photo: James Looker When Australian musician Xavier Rudd was 10 years old, he realized that he could reuse an old vacuum-cleaner hose as a didgeridoo. Talk about a career rooted in green values. Since then, Rudd has moved on from vacuum-cleaner hoses to guitars, harmonicas, banjos, lapsteels, and even real didgeridoos -- but his environmental ethi ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music (all these topics) |
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The sound of one awards show greening
Grammys go green(ish) |
Sarah van Schagen |
11 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Between a late-night dinner with a friend and finally watching Thursday's taped episode of Lost, I caught about five minutes of last night's Grammy Awards show (the five minutes of Brad Paisley singing "I'd like to check you for ticks ..." -- a strangely compelling song). But I was pleased this morning to see that the Grammys celebrated their 50th anniversary by going green for the first time. By partnering with the NRDC and others, the Recording Academy ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music, TV (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Once
A song from the most romantic movie of 2007 |
David Roberts |
08 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Last night I finally got around to watching Once, the little Irish indie flick that got so much critical acclaim last year. It is, in fact, a remarkable film -- worthy of the buzz. I'm not sure what you'd call it. A "musical"? Not exactly -- the movie's entirely naturalistic. There's no spontaneous breaking out into song and d ... |
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| Topics: movies, music (all these topics) |
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Stop pacin'. Time's wastin'
Nelly, reimagined |
Kate Sheppard |
04 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Jenny Owen Youngs covers 'It's Getting Hot In Here,' gives it an eco-bent: |
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| Topics: climate, music (all these topics) |
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Don't you know Jack?
Jack Johnson's new album is solar-powered |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Grist has been all over Jack Johnson's greenness (if you know what we mean ...) for a while now, but this weekend, the Gray Lady got hip to him too. The laid-back surfer-songwriter's upcoming album, Sleep through the Static, drops tomorrow -- straight from the all-solar studio where he recorded it. CNN takes a tour in the vid below: |
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| Topics: celebrity, music (all these topics) |
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LP, I Need Somebody
On vinyl records |
Umbra Fisk |
04 Feb 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, I know that PVC is bad, and vinyl records are PVC (right?), but is there any harm in keeping the records I already have, or should I get rid of them? And if so, what's the best way to do so? I've recently been trying to phase out any "bad" plastics, including anything that leaches, and while I understand the danger of plastic leaching chemicals into a water bottle, is there anything all that bad about playing an old ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, music, toxics (all these topics) |
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