Articles by Katharine Wroth

A self-endorsed celeb fights for the planet

Tired of celebrities. Declares self one. Distributes Lester Brown's book to all. Saves world.

Your random thoughts could help a hungry econ student

Here at Grist, we get a lot of requests for help with problems that, frankly, we're not smart enough or equipped enough to handle. So when a request comes along that we can actually do something about, it makes us happy.

Kimberly Garvie, a graduate student in economics at the University of Wyoming, asked us to spread the word about a survey on invasive species she's doing for her thesis. Take the survey! Help her out! (Number-phobes, beware: it's heavy on the econ, light on the invasives.)

For details, you can emailE=('kgarvie@' + 'uwyo.edu') document.write('' + 'contact' + '') her directly.

From Kinky to Kicky

Kinky is as Kinky does Texas guber-candidate Kinky Friedman is trading his Caddy for a biodiesel ride and wants Willie in his cabinet. Plus he’s got his own action figure and a rockin’ ‘stache. Almost makes us want to pack up for the Lone Star State. Almost. Photo: Brian Kanof MyCage.com It’s hard out here […]

A little more from ASEC’s founder

If Frank Scura is convinced he can turn around a sector that is the very epitome of heedless consumption, it's because he's been there himself. "My whole life was based on sex and debauchery," he says of his days on the nascent action-sports circuit in the 1980s. But one day, as he tells Gregory Dicum here, everything changed.

I had pretty much gorged myself on the fruits of Babylon and found myself empty. But when I went to Portland, I found sustenance. I found people who played music for music, who grew gardens, who were in touch with the Earth.

Then my grandmother died in eastern Oregon. None of us had ever even gone there, but I was going to go and be Grizzly Adams. I invited people to come start a commune with me, but nobody went. So I went anyway.