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  • Comics are funny, and right

    Tom Toles nails the biofuels dilemma.

    JMG Culture

  • Extinction of an outdated industry on the horizon?

    ... you ignorant ass.

    You may have noticed the ads here on Grist from the International Fund for Animal Welfare calling for an end to the Canadian seal harvest. This short, simple, balanced article from MSNBC is a timely rehash of this annual controversy.

    Because sustainability is ostensibly the main goal of environmentalism, it's difficult to criticize the Canadian seal harvest, because it appears to be a classic case of a sustainably harvested natural resource providing poverty reduction for those who live close to that resource.

    Here are the two main reasons the IFAW wants to end the seal harvest: It is cruel and puts the harp seal species at risk.

    Biodiversivist Culture

  • Quit talking about it already

    We’re constantly getting yelled at here at Grist for not discussing population, which according to the yellers is the ultimate problem of all problems, such that addressing any other problem without addressing it first is to demonstrate one’s total subjugation to The Man and False Consciousness. The issue came up in this thread, so I […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • Due Deferens

    Separate studies show chemicals, cigarettes may affect male birth rate The percentage of boys born in the U.S. and Japan each year has gradually declined over the last three decades, a new study says — and pollutants are a possible cause. “Male reproductive health is in trouble,” says lead researcher Devra Lee Davis of the […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • The biggest factor is still the bottom line

    An influential group of CEOs, senior officers and trustees of institutional investors, asset managers, and corporations called for action (PDF) on climate change back on March 19. It's a good thing the rich and powerful in the U.S. are starting to recognize that action must be taken. But as should be expected, what they call for is the minimum they think they can get away with rather than what is needed.

    Gar Lipow Culture

  • In which Knut gets even cuter

    Vanity Fair‘s second annual “green issue” hits newsstands today (though it arrived last week in “special” cities like New York, L.A., and, apparently, Seattle). And I must say, though its inside contents can’t compete with last year’s edition featuring Grist’s own Chip Giller, it does feature on its cover the equally lovable and (sorry, Chip) […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Billie Jean King builds a green fitness facility

    Thought Calamity James, Bob Burnquist, Hijo del Santo, and Yao Ming were the only big-ish names is green sporting? (Because I know you spend a lot of time pondering the big-ish names is green sporting.) Well, add these to your list: Pioneering tennis phenom Billie Jean King is involved in plans for a green community, […]

    Sarah K. Burkhalter Culture

  • Funny

    Here is Stephen Colbert discussing the “reduce reuse re-psychos” and interviewing Colin Beavan, whose family is shooting for a year of zero eco-impact. Beavan puts in a plug for Step It Up. Nice work Mr. Beavan! Funny stuff:

    David Roberts Culture

  • I prefer to fly

    I changed my mind. I no longer want a plug-in hybrid car. Them's for punks.

    Now I want a solar/plug-in airplane. Video below the fold.

    Takeaway message: battery technology is the roadblock. That and rain.

    Adam Browning Culture

  • Ticket info and line-ups also announced

    After much back–and–forth over D.C. locations for Al Gore’s Live Earth Concerts on 7/7/07, organizers today announced the U.S. concert will be held at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Tickets for the show will go on sale Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. EDT. Locations were also announced for five of the other seven concerts […]

    Grist staff Culture