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  • Eric Henry, sustainable T-shirt maker extraordinaire, answers questions

    Eric Henry. What work do you do? I am the president of T.S. Designs. How does it relate to the environment? We provide the highest-quality, most-sustainable printed T-shirts on the market. We define that as being made of organic cotton or other sustainable fibers, manufactured in the U.S., and printed and dyed with our environmentally […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Why we need to make makers take back what they make

    Here's an actual photo of something some bikers found while doing a bikelane/bikepath cleanup day -- now, who says we don't need extended producer responsibility laws?

    JMG Culture

  • Critical Mass Seattle style

    I participated in my first Critical Mass ride a few Fridays ago. I thought I'd better post on it and get this photo out of my cell phone. Can you spot the guy with no pants on?

    There was also a dude with a drum on his handlebars and someone else with a nice sound system on a trailer. I'm guessing that there were about 300 riders.

    Biodiversivist Culture

  • A public service announcement

    It has nothing to do with green anything, but this is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever read.

    David Roberts Culture

  • Unused mobile power adapters still use energy

    As part of an announcement by Nokia regarding new green initiatives and features for future phones, the company revealed a little-known fact about mobile phone adapters:

    Jerome Woody Culture

  • PBS interviews them some Grist

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

    David Roberts Culture

  • 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

  • Are our standards for exposure to toxics all wrong?

    An intriguing new study published recently on Environmental Health News challenges the long-held assumption on which all regulatory toxicology testing is based, and poses new questions about what — and how much — of certain toxic substances merit “OK” exposure. Toxicology tests are usually performed by giving subjects (usually rodents) high doses of a substance […]

    Kate Sheppard Culture

  • Well, actually it’s about sports

    The Oregonian brings word of outdoor companies going “carbon neutral” in the near future. They include roof-rack manufacturer Yakima (aiming to be zero-emissions before this fall), outdoor-gear behemoth REI (planning to neutralize its emissions by, um, 2020), Nike (which already powers more than half of its electricity use through wind energy), and shoe company KEEN. […]

    Sarah K. Burkhalter Culture

  • A video you simply must see

    Yikes. Everyone must watch this video, which comes to us from DeSmogBlog: And on a related note, this seems like a good time to link to The Denialists’ Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts. You will see that these perpetual, maddening arguments about global warming are not […]

    David Roberts Culture