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  • More climate-change initiatives from the original web geeks

    A few weeks ago I noted that Yahoo! has pledged to go carbon neutral in 2007. Today the company is making some more splashy green announcements. Company co-founder David Filo, along with Global Green and Matt Dillon (?!), will be taking to Times Square later today to announce a series of initiatives around climate change. […]

    David Roberts Technology

  • Some guy on CNBC

    There’s plenty of oil. We’re swimming in it! What I don’t get is, why does he think production-capacity limitations and geological limitations are mutually exclusive? (via Hugg)

    David Roberts Climate & Energy

  • Not exactly

    Wondering what to make of this? President Bush responded to a Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don’t need congressional approval, the White House said Monday. Bush is announcing the steps he is directing his administration to take in a Rose Garden appearance later Monday. Read on down a little bit: […]

    David Roberts Climate & Energy

  • Consumers Say They’ll Stick With Coke

    Organic milk to flood U.S. market, Stonyfield yogurt hits Europe Batten down the hatches: organic milk is about to flood the U.S. A combination of consumer demand and changing practices — a ruling last year required organic dairy farmers to switch to feeding moo-cows 100 percent organic grain instead of 80 percent organic grain — […]

    Grist staff Food

  • Reclaimed Brown Fields

    Leading British candidate announces plan to create eco-towns Gordon Brown, the man widely expected to take Tony Blair’s place as prime minister of Britain this summer, has made headlines with a splashy green announcement. Brown, currently the U.K. finance minister, said he intends to create five eco-towns that would meet a demand for affordable housing. […]

    Grist staff Cities

  • Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Not Talk About

    U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft Here’s a comforting thought for a Monday: your future is being played like a poker hand. Next month, the leaders of the G8 nations will meet in Germany along with the heads of China, India, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. With hopes of agreeing on climate-change […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • PBS interviews them some Grist

    Here’s Grist Supreme Leader Chip Giller on PBS’ Now:

    David Roberts Culture

  • Encyclopedia of Life off to a slow start

    A couple of emails and an article in the latest issue of Science have roused me to post on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. The site is not functional yet but has a whiz-bang demo (completely fake) put together by a company called AvenueA|Razorfish that is well worth checking out.

    However, that was the only thing that impressed me about the site. The article in Science just inflamed my skepticism:

    Biodiversivist Uncategorized

  • A proclamation

    I’m stealing this from Digby. Hats off you all you mothers out there — especially you, Mom! Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870 by Julia Ward Howe Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have great questions […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • Yeah, that’s running out too

    A few weeks ago I mentioned a study showing that coal reserves are not nearly as extensive as the "200-year supply" invoked by coal boosters. Now Richard Heinberg brings word of another study that reaches substantially similar conclusions. The main thrust is that the quality of easily accessible coal is declining and that prices are […]

    David Roberts Climate & Energy