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Grist (originally Grist Magazine; also referred to as Grist.org) is an award-winning non-profit online magazine that publishes environmental news and views with a fresh twist - informing, inspiring, and linking the next generation of green activists. Grist reports serious news spiked with a sense of humor, making its reporting and commentary irreverent, incisive, intelligent, and entertaining. Launched in April 1999, Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Called "The Daily Show" of the environment by Newsweek and others, Grist has been cited in major media including the New ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Scientists claim junk food is as addictive as heroin
The conclusion: the brain responds to junk food the same way it does to heroin:Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
House Republicans blow off biz leaders who want climate action
On Tuesday, a group of key Republicans hosted a summit on Capitol Hill to bash the Waxman-Markey bill as an “energy tax” that would cost average Americans $3,100 a year ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.
Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. ...Posted by Marsha Iverson -
You know the drill
... as of the stroke of midnight tomorrow, the moratorium currently barring drilling in the outer continental shelf that has been in place for 26 years will evaporate. There ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Against cap-and-dividend
Transportation and building heating/electricity are the two largest contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for well over half the total. The price elasticity on ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Act now with clean energy or face 6 degrees warming
When the normally conservative International Energy Agency (IEA) agrees with both the middle of the road IPCC and more ... progressive voices like mine, it should be time for ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
It's not the size of the government, it's how you use it
McCain, by contrast, continues to offer virtually no action -- certainly no votes -- to substantiate his professed concern over climate change. His opposition to government ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Solar land use: less than coal
Every now and then one hears complaints about solar energy: "but it takes too much land!". "An entire Idaho!" "Three Californias!"Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Bush swaps debt for nature
The Bush administration, Costa Rica, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy will today announce a "debt-for-nature" swap that could herald something bigger in ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Dingell calls our bluff
So this is what he thinks: "Look, you want me to do something serious about global warming? Fine. I'll propose a cap-and-trade system accompanied by a carbon tax, since that's ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Michael Specter’s new book ‘Denialism’ misses its targets
Like the great institutions of European Christianity, modern science has amassed tremendous power—and not always lived up to its founding creeds. Science needs a ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Six months after the outbreak, who’s investigating the CAFO-swine flu link?
Scientists at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa revealed last week they had identified the H1N1 strain in seven pigs at the Minnesota State Fair in late ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Big Ag’s odd obsession with You-Know-Who
(Blog Post) Big Ag has clearly decided that Pollan is a latter-day Lenin (or perhaps Trotsky?) leading a cadre of food revolutionaries who threaten to overthrow its hard-fought ...via Tom Friedman -
Gaza water supplies in danger of ‘collapse,’ U.N. says
“The underground water supplies, upon which 1.5 million Palestinians depend for agriculture and drinking water, are in danger of collapse,” the U.N. Environment Program ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Pollan says health-care reform will fail unless we change the way we eat
If we don’t get a handle on these health care costs, the new system or the old system, we’ll go broke. And that’s why I think that really food is the elephant in the ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
How much energy does the U.S. waste?
Add those all up and we’ve got 100 quads of primary energy and 60 quads of waste energy. For all the reasons noted above, the waste energy is probably much higher, but even ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
EPA turns the lights on mountaintop removal
This post originally appeared at TheNation.com . The Environmental Protection Agency made good on its promise today to assert greater scrutiny and “use the best science and ...Posted by Patricia L'Herrou -
Home power plants project unveiled in Germany
An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people’s basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Van Jones seeks a ‘healing for our politics’
Jones’s true record is one of turning away from anger and finding hope, abandoning division and seeking consensus. Speaking at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Big Oil creates phony climate denial site, lies about it
A friend just alerted me to the website PlantsNeedCO2.org, which is running ads on NYTimes.com. From the site’s “about us” page: Our mission is to educate the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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