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New sportswear retailer donates to green groups
Check out Planet Protect Sportswear, a brand new retailer that vends responsibly made items and gives 10 percent of its profits to either Earth Share of Oregon or Oceana (workplace of intrepid Gristmill contributor Andrew Sharpless). Planet Protect welcomes freelance artists to design T-shirts. Or if you happen to know a producer of sustainable swimsuits, […]
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A no-makeup diet is healthier for you and the planet
Did you know you can absorb up to five lbs. of chemicals every year from make-up and other "beauty" products? Yikes. A British paper presents that and other scary facts — "the average woman eats, albeit unwittingly, five lipsticks a year, which in her lifetime is the equivalent volume of 1.5 blocks of lard" — […]
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Friday music blogging: Josh Ritter
It’s been a great year for music. In addition to fantastic new albums from Cloud Cult, Modest Mouse, Okkervil River, and Band of Horses, there’s the latest from everyone’s favorite “new Dylan,” Josh Ritter. Ritter’s talent for marrying hooky melodies with knotty, literate lyrics has won him some passionate fans — more than one Gristie […]
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Walruses, whales and … wave farms?
Illegal acts pervaded the seas, waves were promoted as renewable energy, and Brooklyn got a new resident in a busy week for the oceans. This week in ocean news ...
... The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation voted to immediately reduce cod bycatch by 40 percent off Canada's eastern coast at its annual meeting ...
... nine Pacific nations concluded Operation Big Eye, a 10-day, $15 million sting on illegal fishing boats. Patrols boarded 38 vessels ...
... another multinational effort in the north Pacific captured photographic evidence of 10 vessels rigged with driftnets, which are banned by the United Nations ...
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World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report
The World Bank’s encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization’s legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramble […]
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EPA not up to par on environmental justice, GAO finds
Charged with the minor task of informing minority and low-income populations about toxic facilities in their neighborhoods, do you think the U.S. EPA has:
a). Done a thorough, admirable job, or
b). Not
For the correct answer, read this new GAO report [PDF].
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China relocates Tibetan herders in interest of environment
Ugh: China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported Tuesday. Glaciers in the province where the herders live are an initial source for both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; somehow we imagine that the […]
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On Oct. 17, Grist is throwing a bash in Seattle — you’re invited
Our reader parties in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., are the stuff of legend, but they’ve caused our hometown peeps to struggle with some rejection issues. Why all this jet-setting across the country and no love for the Emerald City? We heard your cries, hometown peeps. So we’re having a blowout right here in Seattle […]
