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Apologies and previews Grist is cooking up a new site; what do you want to see in it?	David Roberts	18 May 2008	Gristmill
I have exciting matters to discuss, but first, two apologies. First apology Lately, my blogging has been cursory, rushed, incomplete, and a little sucky. I haven't been responding to emails, writing the longer pieces I've promised various people, or otherwise keeping up with my professional obligations. "What's new?" you ask. What's new is that I have a really good excuse. More on that in a moment. Second apology We are well aware -- I'd even go so far ...
Topics: green living, shameless self-promotion, tech, websites (all these topics)

The $3 trillion shopping spree	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill
How are you going to spend your $3 trillion? I just put this in my cart.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, websites (all these topics)

Why survivalists make me want to die More than peak oil or financial crash, I fear angry men armed to the teeth	Tom Philpott	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'I urge readers to use less than lethal means when safe and practicable, but at times there is not a satisfactory substitute for well-aimed lead going down range at high velocity.' -- James Rawles, SurvivalBlog With oil and food prices reaching all-time highs and food riots breaking out in the global south, a bit of good old-fashioned end-is-nighism is creeping into our popular culture. It hit me when I read a report in The New York Sun -- the one I blogged abo ...
Topics: education, food, gardening, local food, websites (all these topics)

Join the Flock Browse the web like an eco-chic geek	Ashley Braun	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The eco-revolution will not be televised. This time, it's on the web in the form of a sleek new web browser at Flock.com. If you want to keep tabs on the latest green scene while staying caught up on whatever your friends are doing, then the Flock Eco browser is all you need. Based on the Mozilla/Firefox setup, Flock allows you to be logged into all your social networks at once -- Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc. -- while at the same time collecting your fave ...
Topics: green living, shameless self-promotion, tech, websites (all these topics)

Rationing food in the land of plenty? It's happening, reports The New York Sun	Tom Philpott	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Is the U.S. on the brink of food rationing? Possibly. Reports The New York Sun: Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. It's hard to know what to make of the report, though. The Sun article focuses mainly on anecdotal evidence: shoppers at a Costco in Silicon Valley -- one of the the most prosperous areas on the planet -- a guy who runs a surviva ...
Topics: food, local food, shopping, websites (all these topics)

Google: energy glutton? New server farm projected to use 103 MW of power	Erik Hoffner	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Interesting feature in the March issue of Harper's if you missed it: Google's server farms use a heckuva lot of energy. A planned server farm in The Dalles, Ore. will probably use 103 megawatts of mega-hydro electrons, enough to power 82,000 homes, according to the author, Ginger Strand. Server farms used more power than TVs in the U.S. in 2006, and this may increase as other search firms gear up to battle Google. Of course, the proliferation of flat-screen energy hogs ...
Topics: business, energy, Oregon, websites (all these topics)

Virtual water is the new carbon footprint Calculate how much water your lifestyle requires	Sarah van Schagen	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Remember when calculating your carbon footprint was all the rage? Ah, those were the days ... but the carbon crisis is so yesterday's news. The Next Big Thing is the water crisis, and as such, I present a little website called Waterfootprint.org.Use it to calculate your individual water footprint -- or see how much H2O the stuff you're consuming (from apples to cotton tees to red wine) is sucking up.
Topics: ecological footprint, green living, water crisis, websites (all these topics)

New and improved ecological footprint calculator from Redefining Progress	David Roberts	15 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Redefining Progress, which had one of the original and most influential "ecological footprint" calculators, has rebuilt their ecological footprint quiz from the ground up. Check it out, and report your results here. What's your footprint?
Topics: green living, ecological footprint, websites (all these topics)

Superfund365 A toxic tour, coming to a city near you	Maywa Montenegro	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act -- better known as the Superfund -- was born in 1980, largely in response to the Love Canal disaster. At the time, experts thought the allocated $1.6 billion would more than cover the costs of cleaning up the sites. But today, the fund is exhausted (it officially went broke in 2003), and as of September 2007, there are 1,315 final and proposed sites with thousands more awaiting approval. So i ...
Topics: grassroots activism, politics, toxics, waste, websites (all these topics)

Plunder the sea New online game illustrates the impacts of overfishing	Katy Balatero	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Following in the footsteps of other web-based enviro games such as Whale's Revenge, Planet Green, and, uh, Catstration (okay, maybe that one is a stretch) comes Ocean Survivor. The game has no relation to a certain CBS reality show; players swim through the sea as a bluefin tuna and avoid obstacles like death-by-bottom-trawler:
Topics: fishing, oceans, video games, websites (all these topics)

Chris Anderson: Paper mags are better on carbon than websites	David Roberts	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
From 1998 until 2006, the Wired website and Wired magazine had different owners and were run separately. In 2006, Cond� Nast bought the website back and reunited them. I've heard rumors that there were some tensions along the way. I can't help but wonder if those tensions are behind an odd post from Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, claiming that Wired-the-magazine beats Wired-the-website on a carbon basis. The claim is mostly based on the fact that ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, ecological footprint, magazines, websites (all these topics)

At this rate, extinctions may be outpacing postings Encyclopedia of Life up, but empty	biodiversivist	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A tip from Canis sent me to the Encyclopedia of Life, which came online last week. I posted on this project about nine months ago. I was skeptical that it would amount to much back then, so I was curious to see if I had missed the mark (as usual). I typed in a bunch of species and found nothing but placeholders for them. The site is still an empty shell, about 99.999 percent short of its goal. They have the categories in place, ready for armies of professional, hand-s ...
Topics: biodiversity, websites (all these topics)

No one is safe Strongbadia gets a gulp o' greenwashing	Ashley Braun	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Remember that goofy 'toon site Homestarrunner.com and its boxing-gloved, email-answering hero, Strong Bad? Well, apparently not even web cartoon characters are safe from the fierce green gaze of environmental imperialism: his readers finally call him out on his lack of eco-initiative. So what does Strong Bad do to help save the planet? You mean, besides watering flowers with recycled cigarette butts? (Hey, he did switch from using bleach!)Fortunately, S ...
Topics: green living, greenwashing, websites (all these topics)

Environmental Capital	David Roberts	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In case you didn't know: The Wall Street Journal has started an environmental blog called Environmental Capital. It's quite good. See, for instance, this post on the climate talks going on in Hawaii, and the centrality of global trade considerations thereto.
Topics: websites (all these topics)

BigThink Smart people talk about serious questions	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Check out this cool new site, BigThink. It's a collection of short video interviews with notable or famous people, asking them a series of common questions. Strangely addictive. The environment section is fairly anemic thus far (the site just launched a few weeks ago), but you can watch Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, John McCain, and Bill Richardson all answering the question, Is ethanol overhyped? (Hint: Cellulosic! Cellulosic!) Also, I really like Gillian Caldwell, ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, politics, websites (all these topics)

Elect Gristmill in '08! Still time to vote for Gristmill in 2008 Weblog Awards	Ashley Braun	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
You didn't know Gristmill was a candidate for something? Right, and I suppose next you'll tell me that you were paying attention to some other voting thing-y going on. Well, chill. There's still time to elect Gristmill as the Best Tropical Topical Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. But only until tomorrow night, Friday, Jan. 11, at 10:00 p.m. EST. So get out there and rock our vote.
Topics: shameless self-promotion, websites (all these topics)

Talk about targeting!	David Roberts	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Here's a blog devoted entirely to geothermal energy in Washington state. Apparently there's a need:The hot zone of California, Nevada (the Saudi Arabia of geothermal), Idaho and Oregon could produce tens of thousands of megawatts along the spine of the Sierra Nevadas and Cascades. Washington state sits on the edge of this hot zone. The 34 thermal hot springs throughout the state are just the surface of our potential. Yet, Washington state has zero megawatts of geoth ...
Topics: energy, geothermal power, Washington, websites (all these topics)

Honk if you love Gristmill! And by honk, we mean vote Vote for Gristmill in the 8th Annual Weblog Awards	Ashley Braun	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This is for all you loyal readers out there who turn to Gristmill, day in and day out, for your recommended daily intake of leafy green commentary. Actually, this is a shameless plug for anyone who kinda sorta likes and/or reads Grist/Gristmill. Give a little bloggy love in return by nominating Grist's own blog, Gristmill, for one of the following categories in the 8th Annual Weblog Awards, aka the 2008 Bloggies. The illustrious, insightful, and ever-so-modest Grist ...
Topics: shameless self-promotion, websites (all these topics)

Vote early and often	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I don't usually pay much attention to the Weblog Awards, but it has come to my attention that the odious skeptic blog Climate Audit has marshaled its flat earth fanboys to push it in the lead for 'best science blog.' That just ain't right. Unless you want to hear Glenn Beck repeating a new talking point ad nauseum, head on over and vote for the more sensible Bad Astronomy. Go on. It will only take a sec.
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, websites (all these topics)

Two new environmental blogs	Joseph Romm	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In general, I have been critical of media coverage of global warming. So I am pleased to announce that two of the best environmental journalists working have launched blogs: A new environmental blog from Mark Hertsgaard, the terrific environment correspondent for The Nation (and author of a lot of great books). A new sustainability blog from The New York Times, dotearth, led by their first-rate climate reporter, Andrew Revkin. Revkin notes the limits of the ...
Topics: climate, websites (all these topics)

Pearce on Gore	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Socially progressive publishing house Beacon has a new blog, Beacon Broadside, where its authors post. One of the first posts is from Fred Pearce, author of, among other books, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. It's called "Al and Me,' and defends Gore against the charge that he exaggerated the dangers of climate change in his movie. Quite the contrary, says Pearce.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, websites (all these topics)

Yahoo! goes carbon neutral Web company announces selection of offset projects	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Back in April, Yahoo! announced that it will be going carbon neutral in 2007, and pledged to be entirely transparent about the process. They acknowledged the controversy around offsets: We know carbon neutrality isn't without controversy. And it's honestly deserved if companies and individuals don't first make an effort to find direct ways to reduce their impact. We'll continue to be vigilant about cutting ours, looking for creative ways to power our faciliti ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, carbon offsets, greening biz operations, websites (all these topics)

Blog Action Day	David Roberts	15 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Happy Blog Action Day! To honor this occasion, we here at Gristmill are going to spend all day blogging about the environment.
Topics: funnies, websites (all these topics)

Always offer full-content RSS feeds	David Roberts	02 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Warning: the following post is geeky. It's about RSS feed options. Read only if you are fascinated by things like RSS feed options. These days, virtually every blog or news site offers one or more RSS feeds. RSS is still consumed by a fairly small sliver of the audience, but it's a high-information, socially networked, web-savvy sliver -- exactly the people most media sites are trying to reach. Speaking for myself, I do about 90-95% of my online reading via RSS these ...
Topics: websites (all these topics)

Hey ...	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
... did you hear that Al Gore won an Emmy? After the Nobel Peace Prize, what's left for the guy to win?
Topics: Al Gore, TV, websites (all these topics)

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