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Big sustainability announcement

Remember the big sustainability announcement from DuPont I told you was coming?

Well, they made it. Joel Makower has the rundown.

Someday I'll have time to comment on things like this again. And by "someday" I mean November.

Humanity …

... is officially in debt.

Tune in

Be sure to tune into Bill Moyers' Is God Green? special tomorrow, on your local PBS station.

Here's the trailer:

Also, check out this piece in the L.A. Times today on the same subject.

Update [2006-10-11 0:32:52 by David Roberts]: Here's another piece on the subject, from NYT.

Bill Moyers, Bill McKibben, and others on evangelical environmentalism

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Forgive and Let Live Talk About the Wither To Catch a Leaf An Embarrassment of Richard Well’s Hells That’s All Wells and Good Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Faith, Hope, and Clarity Heat and Serve Tricks of the Fair Trade […]

New study finds women dress better when they’re fertile

A new study has found that women tend to dress better when they're fertile, according to an article published today by Reuters. Perhaps there is good reason environmentalists, at least as far as the stereotype is concerned, dress poorly. All the hemp ponchos and fleece jackets are really just another way to walk the talk on population control. At least, that's my new excuse for dressing like this. It's my fertility camouflage.

The greatest email ever

On Sunday, we got one of the greatest emails ever. Here it is:

Dear Gristers!

Last Friday Al Gore was presented the first copy of the Dutch version of his book "An inconvenient truth"; he also attended the grand opening of his film in the prestigious Amsterdam Tuschinski film theatre and introduced his film there. All of this would not have happened without YOU.

I (I am the founder -in 1982- and director of a small environmental communication agency near Amsterdam,) learnt from the book and the film through your daily email. I contacted the Dutch publisher that had published his earlier book about the date the Dutch version would be out. To my astonishment they said they would not publish it ("we did not earn money on his first book, and we changed our publishing policy"). No other Dutch publisher, I found out, had bought the translations rights. So I did, and translated it my self, and organised him to be there at the occasion of the presentation and the film premiere. Attached two photo's of the event (the guy left of Gore is me ... The guy to the right behind Gore on the second photo is the Dutch minister for the Environment).

So: THANK YOU! Without Grist there would definitively NOT have been a Dutch edition.

And as I emailed to you before: I thoroughly enjoy your work as well as they way you do it! Keep up the good work!)

best regards,

Maurits Groen
Maurits Groen Environment & Communication

Here's a picture of Maurits with Gore:

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