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  • James Bond a not-so-secret green agent

    The new James Bond flick Quantum of Solace, which opens this weekend, has an eco-theme. I wrote about it in April: Quantum of Solace continues the storyline that began with Casino Royale and finds Bond shaken (not stirred) by the death and betrayal of a loved one. He wants revenge, and he points a (Gold)finger […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Umbra on cookbooks

    Dear Umbra, I am trying to eat local foods within the seasons, but most of my cookbooks include ingredients from multiple seasons in a single recipe. Can you offer any cookbooks or advice for finding more seasonal recipes? Yours locally (and in season or preserved), Katie Somerville, Mass. Dearest Katie, Good for you — and […]

    Ask Umbra® Culture

  • NBC back at the green thing

    Next week throughout the broadcast world of network NBC It’s “Green Is Universal” time, so forced programs you’ll see: From Kath and Kim describing what our ignorance has lost us To musings from the Peter Pan of big-time sports, Bob Costas. A mayor will clean up a waterfront on soapy Days And PSAs will hammer […]

    Katharine Wroth Culture

  • ‘Hypermiling’ is the word of the year

    Beating out such worthy contenders as “staycation” and “CarrotMob,” “hypermiling” has been crowned the 2008 Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.

    Grist staff Culture

  • How to green your bathroom

    No need to go all ape sh*t, greening your bathroom is easy.   Splish splash, I was takin’ a bathLong about a Saturday nightA-rub-dub, just relaxin’ in the tubThinkin’ everything was all right. Poor Bobby Darin — there he was, thinking everything was all right, when he really should have been taking a four-minute shower […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • UPS to deliver by b-i-k-e?

    The president of the Salem (Ore.) Bicycle Club got an e-mail from someone purportedly at UPS looking to hire seasonal drivers to make deliveries by bike — and thus to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Wowie! If this is for real, it means that all those with admiring eyes for the buff men and women in brown […]

    JMG Culture

  • E-waste scandal on 60 Minutes

    60 Minutes will be airing a segment on the global toxic trade in e-waste tonight. Here’s a preview story and video.

    JMG Culture

  • Chinese Premier: Rich nations should ditch ‘unsustainable’ lifestyles and stop buying our crap

    OK, maybe Premier Wen didn’t say that last part: BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday that rich nations should alter their lifestyles to help tackle global warming, at the start of a two-day meeting on climate change, state media reported. “The developed countries have a responsibility and an obligation to respond to […]

    Joseph Romm Culture

  • William Shatner speaks out against global warming

    And again I say: Shatner!

    Sarah K. Burkhalter Culture

  • Stella McCartney named green designer of the year

    <img alt="Stella McCartney" src="http://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/stella-mccartney_v150.jpg" vspace="0" border="0" hspace="0"> Photo: Peter Larsen/ WireImage.com Beatle offspring Stella McCartney was named the first-ever Green Designer of the Year at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards earlier this week. The vegetarian fashion designer doesn’t use leather or fur in her designs, and seeing as her mom was animal-rights activist Linda Eastman […]

    Holly Richmond Culture