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An improvement on ‘Live green, go yellow’

Grist styles itself as communicating "gloom and doom with a sense of humor." In that spirit, I can't resist posting something that made me laugh this morning.

Sustain-a-Bull?

How sustainable development affects today’s job market It was 20 years ago that the term “sustainable development” was popularized in a United Nations document known as the Brundtland report. Since then, jobs in fields ranging from mining to banking to manufacturing have begun to redefine it. But as we search for solutions that balance economic, […]

Eat Your Greens

Grist launches food and ag email to fill your belly with news Hungry for more food and agriculture news? Have we got a meal — uh, deal — for you. Starting this week, you can sign up for Eat Your Greens, an email sent one to two times a week that highlights food-related content in […]

Was It the Cowlick?

U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa A first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. will stop Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa in its tracks — for now. Citing the USDA’s failure to conduct an environmental impact statement before approving the crop in 2005 and its “cavalier” response to concerns that the franken-falfa could contaminate […]

Practice your politics with the BBC’s Climate Challenge

The climate is in crisis. The world is a mess. Think things would be better if you ruled the universe (or at least a developed nation)? Here's your chance to test out that theory.

Play the BBC's Climate Challenge game and you'll take on the role of president of a powerful European nation. Your mission: 1) convincing other world leaders to climb aboard the emission reduction train; 2) adopting a mix of climate-friendly national policies that will neither starve nor alienate the voting citizenry.

Coming tomorrow

If you visit the Drudge Report, you’ll find the following bit of typically breathless hype: NY TIMES PLANS HIT ON GORE, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE: ‘Scientists argue that Gore’s warnings are full of exaggerated claims and startling errors’… Reporter William Broad filing the story, ‘A CALL TO COOL THE HYPE’… Developing… "Developing" indeed. Looks like […]

A petition? That kinda Sachs.

I don’t think it’s exaggerating to call Jeffrey Sachs a moral hero. He’s one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals, and has spent his life pursuing innovative ways to reduce poverty, hunger, and suffering through sustainable development. In Time magazine, Sachs issues a clear and forceful call for action on global warming. He directs […]

It ain’t pretty

Last week, UK’s Channel 4 ran a documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It was standard hackery, exciting and titillating to all the standard hacks. Should you have nothing better to do, you can drop by RealClimate for a debunking of some of the doc’s claims, and also hear from a scientist whose views […]

The Farm Bill

Looks like they've put a pretty sensible package together for the new Farm Bill. Let's see if the Democrats cave to special interests in the Farm Belt on this issue. Seems like another topic worth a call to your representatives. Thank goodness for unlimited cell phone minutes.

A nice profile

In the latest issue of Seed, Chris Mooney has a nice profile of legendary climate scientist James Hansen. Here’s the nut: Yet Hansen isn’t afraid of value judgments either. With increasing stridency, he has been articulating a very political, very moral premise: We can’t take much more human-induced greenhouse warming if we want to preserve […]