Articles by Katharine Wroth

From Ellen to Illin’

Ay, there’s the scrub First came the ads and webisodes showing Dawn detergent cleaning itty-bitty oil-soaked critters. Now Ellen DeGeneres is barking about becoming a seal on Dawn’s world-saving website. Nemo has yet to comment on the development. Photo: Kevin Mazur / WireImage.com Remote controlled Channeling vintage Grist List, Connecticut has launched a “No Child […]

From Centerfolds to 50 Cent

June is bustin’ out all over A 2007 calendar benefiting the Climate Protection Campaign will feature green models ranging from energy pushers and business owners to city councilchicks and hard-core … cyclists. Their theme? “Ecobabes … because beauty inspires life” — and because sex (no matter how green) sells. Photo: Ecobabes.org Chinese chop tix Censorship, […]

Where will we go now?

Well, there's one less option for planetary relocation.

Hurricane director thinks coastal-dwellers are morons

The coast is no longer where it's at, if for no other reason than the potential for mega-disaster. Says Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, "as long as we continue to develop the coastline like we are, we're setting up for disaster."

He might as well be whispering into a gale-force wind for all the good it'll do. We seem determined to screw ourselves over, on this and many other counts. But good for him for speaking up.