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PETA gets served
Animal rights group called out for repeatedly exploiting women |
Holly Richmond |
17 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A 2006 PETA protest. Photo: anheuser via Flickr. Yesterday, The Sydney Morning Herald had a piece about PETA titled, 'Why does a pro-vegetarian organisation treat women like meat?' Good question. The women-as-meat connection's nothing new -- 1990's Sexual Politics of Meat, anyone? But it's especially ironic coming from a group that asserts, 'Animals are not ours to use for entertainment.' Seattle's stellar Erica Barnett (writer for alt-weekly The Strange ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, gender, green living, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Let's Talk About You and Me
An interview with Bonk author Mary Roach |
Michelle Nijhuis |
01 Jul 2008 |
Grist Feature |
| Photo: cybertoad Ah, sex. Source of carnal bliss, domestic harmony, cute infants ... and global population problems. (Oh, environmentalists are such killjoys.) Overpopulation aside for the moment, sex is fundamental to humanity, and to the rest of the natural world -- and besides, it's a dang fascinating subject, as Mary Roach found out while researching her new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of ... |
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| Topics: books, green living, interview, scientific research, sex (all these topics) |
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Tommy in the top slot
Norwegian fuck-tivists on VH1 |
Katharine Wroth |
20 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I'm not saying that I happened upon, and then proceeded to watch, half of the truly classy Freakiest Concert Moments of All Time on VH1 last night. But if I had, I would have been delighted to see our favorite eco-porn activists in the top slot. Yes, Tommy and Leona's on-stage antics were #1 on the list -- and better yet, Grist's Norwegian Wood head and subhead were woven into the story's graphics. Score! |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, green living, sex, TV (all these topics) |
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Bicyclists do it better
Commute by bike, get lucky |
Trina Stout |
07 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| From a Hungarian PSA (No translation necessary. Mostly safe for work; use headphones):Rarrrrrr. Turns out, Hungary has an entire government position devoted to promoting bicycling.In Hungary, the Ministry of Economics and Transport actually has a Deputy Minister for cycling by the name of Adam Bodor. Bodor's job, put simply, is to get people on their bikes.Now, why can't the U.S. do that? |
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| Topics: bikes, green living, Hungary, sex (all these topics) |
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There's a metaphor in here somewhere
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David Roberts |
04 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear. |
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| Topics: animal welfare, green living, sex (all these topics) |
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Real green world
Video tours of the eco-pimped Real World: Hollywood house |
Summer Rayne Oakes |
28 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In the midst of preparing for the launch of 250 hours of green programming for Discovery Planet Green, I got a call from my good friend Pete Griffin over at Think MTV. 'We have this idea to build a green house on the Real World,' he told me. 'Instead of creating a whole new green show, why not build it into one of the most watched programs on MTV?' Can anyone say brilliant? Well, we had a blast teaching the Hollywood cast a few things about saltwater poo ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, energy at home, green living, sex, TV (all these topics) |
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Trying to Rubber the Right Way
Brazil aims to protect Amazon by using sustainably harvested rubber in condoms |
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08 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 5:53 AM on 08 Apr 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Hard up for ways to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government has announced it's opening a condom factory that will use rubber harvested sustainably from the imperiled rainforest -- no tree-chopping required. The latex will come from the Chico Mendes reserve, named for a well-known Amazon activist gunned down by ranching ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, health, news, sex (all these topics) |
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Notable quotable
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David Roberts |
29 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| 'I'll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he's pulled out. Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know. I didn't hurt my bum at all.' -- New Zealander Arthur Cradock, who was subsequently charged with 'using a phone for a fictitious purpose |
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| Topics: health, jackassery, New Zealand, quotables, sex (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, green living, interview, rainforests, sex (all these topics) |
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Taking meat off the plate ... and the pole
Vegan strip club closes after one month |
Sarah van Schagen |
28 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Ah, Casa Diablo, we hardly knew ye ...Two things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both. At his Casa Diablo Gentlemen's Club, soy protein replaces beef in the tacos and chimichangas; the dancers wear pleather, not leather. ...Last week Mr. Diablo put the club up for sale ... He may have underestimated the appeal of stripping to vegans, or of vegan cuisine to striptease f ... |
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| Topics: green living, Oregon, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Further evidence that impotence leads to arson
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David Roberts |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Am I crazy, or is the Earth Liberation Front website sponsored by Viagra? (via Dan Shapley) |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, politics, sex, Earth Liberation Front (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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Monkey business
Post-Valentine's Day quickies |
biodiversivist |
15 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Photo: Mongabay.com Always a day late and a dollar short, I present to you, ah, two more love stories from nature. The first from Mongabay, which includes a hot photo of two mountain gorillas in the dorso-ventral (missionary) position. A true feminist of the gorilla world, this female has also pioneered the use of tools to measure the depth of puddles before walking into them. Given enough evolutionary time and no competition from upright walking primates, her ... |
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| Topics: holiday, sex, wildlife (all these topics) |
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We're too sexy for their lists
Sexiest jobs lists 'forget' to include eco-professionals |
Kevin Doyle |
15 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In a crushing blow to environmental types everywhere, two "sexiest jobs" lists emerged recently and neither one picked an eco-professional among the sexy. According to CareerBuilder.com, the sexiest jobs are: Entertainer/Model Cocktail Waitress Athlete Firefighter Cowboy Nurse Artist Military Professional Construction Worker TV/Anchor Personality Salary.com selected: Firefighter Personal Trainer CEO Barten ... |
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| Topics: green jobs, sex (all these topics) |
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Baby's got leatherback
Send an ocean-themed e-card |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| If your world was ending, what would you do? I think these critters have the right idea ... If you thought that was cute, you can also send a Valentine e-card to show your love for the oceans. |
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| Topics: holiday, oceans, sex, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Love me, love my food habits
Veganism as relationship deal breaker |
Sarah van Schagen |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Love is in the air, and according to the New York Times, it's also served up at the dinner table. But when it comes to dueling food preferences -- he loves meat, she doesn't -- sometimes dinner leaves couples, well, hungry for more. No-holds-barred carnivores, for example, may share the view of Anthony Bourdain, who wrote in his book Kitchen Confidential that "vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everythi ... |
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| Topics: food, green living, sex, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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Sermon on the Mounting
How to green your love life |
Amy Linn |
05 Feb 2008 |
From A to Green |
| Skyrockets in flight ... but is it an eco-friendly delight? Photo: iStockphoto Ahhh, the bedroom: an oasis of pleasure, a place where terms like "emissions reduction" and "off-gassing" should never intrude. Not that environmentalism and sex don't mix. It's just that lying back and thinking about things like CO2 and carcinogens isn't exactly ... hot. So what's a passionate greenie to do? The answer ... |
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| Topics: advice, education, green living, sex (all these topics) |
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Put the wild in wildlife
Nora Roberts will match donations to Defenders of Wildlife |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
18 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Well, well, well. Who ever said that trashy romance novels couldn't change an endangered species' life? Ferret-related plagiarism by romance novelist Cassie Edwards has brought the world more than just a discussion of the various outdoor places our readers like to get down and dirty. (But, um, that was very enlightening.) According to Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books, the site that started all the hoopla in the first place: [Well-known romance novelist] ... |
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| Topics: wildlife, sex, books, endangered species (all these topics) |
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The Fleiss is right
Former Hollywood madam to open wind-powered brothel |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Heidi Fleiss. Ten things I didn't know about former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss until I read this awesome Elle story: She's a vegetarian. She calls herself a tree hugger. She owns 24 parrots. She runs a laundromat called Dirty Laundry in Pahrump, Nev. (Pahrump!) Her next business venture will be wind-powered. It will be a brothel. For women. (There go the blow-job jokes.) Called the Stud Farm. Where clients can "get a m ... |
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| Topics: business, celebrity, energy, innovation, sex, wind power (all these topics) |
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Grin and ferret
Wildlife writer discusses being plagiarized by a romance novelist |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
15 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Did our writeup of a romance novelist's plagiarism of a wildlife magazine pique your curiosity (or anything else)? Read a hilarious firsthand account of the action by Paul Tolme, who originally wrote the description of black-footed ferrets that romance writer Cassie Edwards lifted for pillow talk between a libidinous Lakota chieftain and a provocative pioneer. 'It is said their closest relations are European ferrets and Siberian polecats,' says the ravish ... |
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| Topics: sex, funnies, wildlife, books (all these topics) |
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Muskrat Love Ain't Got Nothin' on This
Romance novelist accused of plagiarizing green group's magazine |
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14 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:02 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Bloggers at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books have accused popular romance writer Cassie Edwards of plagiarism in a number of her tomes, including Savage Longings, Savage Moon, and Savage Beloved. Among the accusations of Edwards -- who, it may surprise you to know, often writes about the lustful dalliances of Native American characters -- is that a descripti ... |
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| Topics: books, green living, news, sex, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sex, wives, and climate change
A new play with historical and environmental roots |
Erik Hoffner |
09 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| If theater is your thing, here's a great short review of the new play The Boycott -- by Kathryn Blume -- that challenges assumptions about what environmental activism should look like. A humorous and serious one-woman show, it's a contemporary take on Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, in which women from Athens and Sparta refuse to sleep with their husbands until they stop the war. Blume's schedule brings the show to Alaska and Vermont this month, and New Hampshire and M ... |
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| Topics: art, grassroots activism, sex (all these topics) |
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Ogle Cranky Academics Instead
Top British scientist tells women to stop drooling over gas-guzzling males |
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19 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:18 PM on 19 Dec 2007 Hey ladies, wondering how to help fight climate change? It's simple: just stop encouraging men who waste resources! In particular, said U.K. climate scientist David King this week, "stop admiring young men in Ferraris." King's comments were immediately pounced upon -- not by feminists, but by Ferrari owners, who protested that their vehicles spew le ... |
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| Topics: cars, climate, energy, funnies, green living, news, sex, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Sex Education
A primer on chemicals, fertility, and reproduction |
Emily Gertz |
18 Sep 2007 |
Grist Feature |
| Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh Feeling unusually infertile lately? You're not alone: according to a December 2005 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12 percent of American couples reported having a hard time conceiving a child and bearing it to term in 2002, up 20 percent from the 6.1 million couples reporting such "impaired fecundity" in 1995. Although the re ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, parenting, sex, special series, toxics (all these topics) |
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How sea slugs fall in love
Romantic underwater secrets revealed |
Roz Cummins |
17 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I came across this nugget of information when looking for something else, but thought it was worth sharing: Scott Cummins and his colleagues at The University of Queensland have uncovered a potent mix of chemicals which acts like a cross between Chanel No 5 and Viagra -- but only if you are a sea slug. |
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| Topics: oceans, sex, wildlife (all these topics) |
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