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  • Don’t buy Kimberly-Clark’s latest ruse

    If a huge coal power plant goes next door and sets up a cute little boutique collection of five solar panels, have your basic feelings about that giant coal power plant changed? Probably not. After all, you’re reading Grist. But what if said coal company releases advertisements announcing that they’ve “gone solar,” complete with misleading […]

    Ginger Cassady Technology

  • Hydrogen fuel-cell car wins 2009 World Green Car award

    Honda FCX Clarity.Photo courtesy of the New York International Auto Show.Is the Honda FCX Clarity really the world’s greenest car? According to the world’s leading automotive journalists, it is. Thursday morning they gave the hydrogen-fueled Clarity the World Green Car award at the New York auto show. But at my table, after the award was […]

    Sara Barz Technology

  • Oh thank goodness, I was terrified

    “They need not fear what I would write as a bill, [that I would] say, ‘Let’s write a bill without coal.’ You can’t.” — Nancy Pelosi

    David Roberts Politics

  • Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial

    Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will’s climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it. “What George Will did was cherry-pick a sentence in a report, you know, […]

    Kate Sheppard Politics

  • Kyoto stove wins $75,000 FT climate change innovation competition

    We all hate packaging, but the Kyoto box is that rare thing — a cardboard carton that’s part of the solution. It’s also the winner of Forum for the Future’s Climate Challenge competition with HP and the Financial Times to find the year’s best climate change-tackling innovation. After voting by FT readers and mulling over […]

    Ben Tuxworth Technology

  • Big Ag: give us carbon credit, but don't cap our emissions

    As Congress gears up to consider climate legislation, agribusiness is getting sweaty palms -- and for good reason.

    Tom Philpott Politics

  • Somebody hide Tom Friedman’s ball

    “Where is my ball?” Editor’s note: See David’s follow-up post to this piece. … Tom Friedman has done stellar work on green issues lately. He’s certainly given them a higher profile than any dirty blogger could. So I guess he’s owed some latitude. But his recent column is a disaster: wrong on the merits, politically […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • RPS, EERS and energy politics

    I think this one’s got it! There is a belief that with the Democratic shift in Congress, we finally have the votes to get a national renewable portfolio system (RPS). I don’t buy it. As I pointed out here, a “pure” wind-and-solar-only RPS means a wealth transfer from Eastern to Western U.S., and no political […]

    Sean Casten Politics

  • Is ethanol’s Congressional free ride coming to an end?

    The Congressional Budget Office just released a paper looking critically at the relationship between ethanol, food prices and carbon emissions. But it gets better. The CBO blogged about it!Bedtime for corn ethanol?Photo: Big Grey Mare Most ethanol in the United States is produced from domestically grown corn, and the rapid rise in the fuel’s production […]

    Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture

  • Food writers and the state of the oceans

    Yesterday, I criticized New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman, a writer I admire, for calling for red snapper in a recipe, without noting that red snapper is severely overfished. Today, Bittman responded. Below find Mark’s response, with mine underneath. In short, this was a screw-up, and for that I apologize, and thankful for the […]

    Tom Philpott Food