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Yahoo!
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David Roberts |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Yahoo! is going carbon neutral, and the founders seem to have a pretty sensible take on the issue. Also, they have an Earth Day site, FWIW. |
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| Topics: carbon neutral, climate, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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TPM on Kerry on Colbert
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David Roberts |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm sure lots of you follow TalkingPointsMemo, one of the earliest and still best political blogs on the net. They've started doing a (rather charmingly low-budget) daily TV show, and today they debuted a clip wherein they interview John Kerry before he goes on the Colbert Report. They also got some interesting footage from backstage. Here it is: |
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| Topics: funnies, green living, politics, websites (all these topics) |
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Warming Law: new blog on green court cases
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David Roberts |
17 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Did the EPA really think the Mass. v. EPA decision was a "stunner"? Isn't that the kind of thing you prepare for? On that note, check out a new blog: Warming Law. It was started in the wake of Mass. v. EPA to analyze that decision and its effect on other important pending environmental cases. The writers are attorneys at the Community Rights Council. It's invaluable for legal laymen like myself, trying to keep up with the rapidly developing role of the jud ... |
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| Topics: litigation, politics, websites (all these topics) |
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OMFG
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David Roberts |
17 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Don't look directly at it! |
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| Topics: cutesy, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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CSM's new climate change site
Check it out |
David Roberts |
12 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Christian Science Monitor has always had excellent environmental coverage, but now they've gone above and beyond by creating an entire website devoted to global warming. It's great one-stop shopping for the latest news. Speaking of, check out 'Many new constraints for Bush on the environment,' a delightful rundown of all the setbacks and humiliations suffered by the Bushies in the past year, complicating their perpetual quest to dismantle U.S. environmental policy ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, politics, websites (all these topics) |
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Green Knoxville?
Weird but true |
David Roberts |
11 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Another blog that's recently become required reading for me: Mode Shift, a blog on urban sustainability from Keith Schneider, founder of the Michigan Land Use Institute. Yesterday brought a somewhat surprising post on big plans afoot to make Knoxville, Tenn. (among other places) a model of sustainable, healthy living. Y'all may or may not know that I was born in Knoxville, and went to college close to there, and I'm here to tell you that it's the last place I would ev ... |
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| Topics: placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning, websites (all these topics) |
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Global warming floods London ...
In Second Life |
Chris Schults |
09 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| How did Grist miss this one last week, as reported by National Geographic News? Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming. Oh: Or at least, that would have been the headline if events in the virtual world Second Life mirrored reality. A rolling flood temporarily swamped several areas of the online world as part of a campaign to illustrate the poten ... |
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| Topics: climate change impacts, funnies, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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Making Other Arrangements
What are you doing to respond to the climate crisis? |
Erik Hoffner |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Orion magazine has a brand new section, of interest to all Gristmill readers, where folks from all over are encouraged to write in and share what changes their families, communities, churches, etc. are undertaking to respond, now, to the climate crisis, peak oil, etc. I've seen so many ripe ideas posted on Gristmill, BioD's plug-in hybrid bike being a good example. So have a look at some of these great ideas and initiatives (a clustered, renewably-powered, affordable ho ... |
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| Topics: climate, grassroots activism, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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A note about sources
Where to find green news |
David Roberts |
01 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Lately I've been feeling guilty about the fact that I frequently fail to cite where I find the links and articles I blog about. (Adding a "via so and so" or "hat tip: such and such" is good blog etiquette.) It's not deliberate, it's just that by the time I get around to blogging on an article that's been sitting in my browser as an open tab, I often can't remember what tipped me off to it. So let me just put in a generic plug for three aggregator ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, politics, websites (all these topics) |
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Paper? They still make that stuff?
Good one, Google |
Kate Sheppard |
01 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'll admit it. Google's Gmail Paper April Fools Day gag got me late last night when I was all tired and groggy and indignant: 'Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it's here. We're bringing it back.' Paper made from post-consumer organic soybean sputum? Genius. |
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| Topics: funnies, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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Shorpy
An excellent new photo blog |
David Roberts |
31 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| My new favorite blog in the whole wide world is Shorpy, "the 100-year-old photo blog." It's just what it says: it collects old pictures. That description doesn't do it justice, though. It's fascinating. For instance, check out this picture of Miss America contestants from 1927 -- interesting to see how standards of beauty have and haven't changed, hm? Or check out the rows and rows of folks hard at work in the computing division, from some time between 1909 ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, green living, websites (all these topics) |
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VBS.tv on West Virginia coal
Internet TV that doesn't suck! |
David Roberts |
30 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I confess I had never heard of VBS.tv before they wrote us. It's an internet TV station that grew out of Vice magazine. Poking around their site, I must say it looks pretty damn cool. Raw, but cool. I've been wondering when a viable internet TV production outfit will pop up. Maybe this is it. (Here's the mission statement, if you're interested.) The reason they wrote us is to flag an investigative series they did called Toxic: West Virginia. To wit: Part 1: Mountain ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, green living, TV, websites, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Big Picture TV revamped
Goes Web 2.0 |
Chris Schults |
20 Feb 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Big Picture TV, whose tagline is 'talking heads, talking sense,' has relaunched its website with a significantly improved design and a nicely implemented tag system (coming soon to a Grist page near you!). They've migrated to Flash-based videos that can be browsed by category, tag or both, as well as speaker. And as I originally wrote, their speaker list is quite impressive. I'm still not a fan of the talking head video approach (I need more visual stimuli), but ... |
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| Topics: websites (all these topics) |
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Hood Games: Stop clearcutting the youth
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Chris Schults |
04 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Over at Treehugger TV, there is a new video about Comet Skateboards (a green 'board manufacturing company) and their community event, Hood Games: In addition to raising funds and for a sustainably designed skate park in downtown Oakland CA, Comet has collaborated with others to put on Hood Games. Hood Games 4 took place in Oakland, and brought together a truly remarkable gathering of the skateboarders, parents, and friends for a full day of music, art, and of course ... |
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| Topics: California, green building, sports, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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What do you mean I can't sell my gold-plated ivory-billed woodpecker?
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Chris Schults |
30 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| As Google continues its march towards global domination with the launch of Google Checkout, Gristmillers can sleep soundly tonight knowing that the following prohibited items can't be sold/bought via the new service: Endangered species: Plants, animals or other organisms (including product derivatives) in danger of extinction Precious metals: Bulk sales of rare, scarce, or valuable metals The fact the former has to be listed is depressing. Luckily it will be a ... |
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| Topics: business, endangered species, shopping, websites (all these topics) |
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Virtual ecosystem
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Chris Schults |
31 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Want to learn about the interconnectedness and dependencies of an ecosystem? Build one yourself. In Second Life, a virtual world where people reinvent themselves, buy real estate, create and sell products, have sex, host charity events, film movies, etc., Laukosargas Svarog has created her own ecosystem on the virtual island of Svarga: The result of a year's work, Laukosargas Svarog's island of Svarga ... is a fully-functioning ecosystem, adding life or somet ... |
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| Topics: websites (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: Al over the place
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Chris Schults |
29 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| On Thursday, Dave attended a press screening of An Inconvenient Truth, so expect a review of it soon. And on Tuesday, May 2nd, he'll be chatting with the star of the film, Al Gore. If you have any burning questions, just let Dave know. In related news, David Remnick of the The New Yorker published a glowing review of his own, in which he writes: 'An Inconvenient Truth is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important.' Word. Al als ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, movies, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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100-mile diet website and book
Check 'em out. |
Chris Schults |
26 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Last year, I tried to keep up with Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon and their campaign to follow a 100-mile diet. I failed, by only blogging about parts one through five. Since then, parts six through eleven have been published, which can now all be found on the 100-mile diet website:On the first day of spring 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon made a commitment to live for a full year on food and drink drawn from within 100 miles of their home in Vancouver, British C ... |
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| Topics: books, food, local food, Vancouver, websites (all these topics) |
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Yahoo! also celebrates Earth Day
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Chris Schults |
21 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| AOL is not the only Internet giant celebrating Earth Day. Yahoo! is as well. And while Yahoo! only has 10 ways to reduce climate change (to AOL's 11 planet-saving tips), Yahoo!'s dress-your-avatar-in-Earth-Day-gear trumps AOL's buddy icons. (By the way, check out the handsome virtual devil to the right.) And all you Ask Umbra readers go make your momma proud: Yahoo! is awarding a trip to the FIFA World Cup for people who answer Earth Day questions, such as this one: ... |
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| Topics: websites (all these topics) |
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AOL celebrates Earth Day
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Chris Schults |
20 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| AOL is celebrating Earth Day with a special website that features 11 ways to 'save the planet & your wallet' (ubiquitously sponsored by GM's 'Live Green, Go Yellow' campaign). Topics include: driving, wear, home, yard, appliances, careers, investing, travel, eating, partying, and kids. Several of the categories are accompanied by 30-second video clips featuring Peter Horton, Bradley Whitford and, of course, Laurie David (she's everywhere!). And for all you AOL i ... |
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| Topics: websites (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: green.tv
A broadband TV channel for environmental films |
Chris Schults |
14 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Environmental media is blooming on the internets these days. The folks over at Treehugger are keeping on schedule by pumping out a new video each week. The latest piece is on organic and biodynamic wines. Along the same lines, I discovered that Daryl Hannah has launched a weekly video blog called dh love life, where she'll cover issues like biodiesel to green building. And late this week I got word of green.tv (a domain I wish I grabbed myself): green.tv is th ... |
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| Topics: green living, movies, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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Now playing: dh love life
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Chris Schults |
11 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Move over Current TV, lookout Treehugger TV ... here comes Daryl TV! Actually, that's dh love life, Daryl Hannah's weekly video blog, which covers a range of green topics. Now playing is a piece on vegan junkfood. Previous episodes covered biodiesel and a natural products expo. Upcoming episodes will feature green building and a skater/farmer (organic I presume). I'm hooked. (Via TH) |
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| Topics: celebrity, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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Current TV: Make your own Yaris TV ad, and more
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Chris Schults |
07 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| So you think you've got the chops to produce a television commercial after making your own Chevy Tahoe ad? Well, let's see how well you do when you have to shoot and edit it yourself! Still up to the challenge? If so, head on over to Current TV where they're seeking submissions for viewer-created ads for the Toyota Yaris. What would you do with your Yaris? Now, you don't have to own a Yaris to take on this project. Just make a V-Cam commercial about what you would d ... |
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| Topics: cars, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: A weekly roundup
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Chris Schults |
17 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Wow, I guess I underestimated my ability to influence coverage here at Grist. If you haven't noticed, environmental media has been getting a lot of play around here lately. So, this week I'm simply going to provide a roundup of green-media topics appearing on Grist (and elsewhere): More Environmental Film Last week I mentioned there'd be more on environmental film festivals. I didn't lie. If you missed it, check out Paul Henderson's report, Feelin' Movie, which discu ... |
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| Topics: movies, music, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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'Eco-terrorism': Careful with that website, Eugene
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David Roberts |
13 Mar 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Here's a story that should help every environmental and animal-rights activist sleep a little easier. Kevin Kjonaas was just convicted. What was his crime? Setting up a website -- a website with details on companies that support animal testing, and some raucous message boards where some dumb things were said. The government doesn't claim Kjonaas damaged property -- or knowingly provided material assistance to anyone who did. ... However, ... |
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| Topics: eco-terrorism, websites (all these topics) |
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