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  • GreenScanner

    Have you ever been shopping and wanted to know how environmentally friendly a particular item actually is? Me too, and I have been meaning to propose that someone create the very database that GreenScanner has now developed.

    Chris Schults Culture

  • Who Killed the Electric Car? launch date set

    In addition to An Inconvenient Truth, we've been also tracking the film Who Killed the Electric Car? This morning Grist received an email concerning the official launch date, which is scheduled for June 28th of this year.

    The movie was screened at Sundance and will also be appearing at the following festivals:

    San Francisco Film Festival (April 21-22)
    USA Film Festival, Dallas (April 29)
    Tribeca Film Festival, New York City (May 2, 4-6)
    Mountain Film Festival, Telluride, Co (tentative: May 28)
    Seattle Film Festival (tentative: June 9)
    Atlanta Film Festival (tentative: June 11)

    Chris Schults Culture

  • A broadband TV channel for environmental films

    Environmental media is blooming on the internets these days. The folks over at Treehugger are keeping on schedule by pumping out a new video each week. The latest piece is on organic and biodynamic wines.

    Along the same lines, I discovered that Daryl Hannah has launched a weekly video blog called dh love life, where she'll cover issues like biodiesel to green building.

    And late this week I got word of green.tv (a domain I wish I grabbed myself):

    Chris Schults Culture

  • From Bikes to Butte

    Blessed are the two-wheelers What would Jesus drive? Please. Jesus would bike, bro! To vouchsafe this essential spiritual truth, New York City cyclists are gathering in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Earth Day to have their rides blessed and sprinkled with holy water, while they ring their bells and angels get their […]

    David Roberts & Sarah van Schagen Culture

  • Michael Pollan digs into the mysteries of the U.S. diet in The Omnivore’s Dilemma

    In The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan diagnoses the national attitude toward food: angst. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, 320 pgs, 2006. Channeling the modern middle-class shopper wandering vast supermarket aisles, Pollan asks: “The organic apple or the conventional? And if […]

    Tom Philpott Culture

  • A conversation with climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert

    Elizabeth Kolbert. Over the past year, a perfect storm of scientific studies, dire weather events, and media coverage lifted global warming onto the mainstream national agenda. No writing had more impact than a series of closely observed pieces in The New Yorker by journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • The barnstorming band that’s changing the world, one campus at a time

    Singing a new song: Guster rocks out for eco-awareness. Photo: Ian B. Johnson.   After welcoming some 1,500 fans to a concert at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., last week, Ryan Miller — the curly haired front man of pop/rock band Guster — asked the audience if they had noticed that he […]

    Sarah van Schagen Culture

  • Media Shower: Green is the new black

    Taking a cue from Alex over at WorldChanging, I'd like to point out all the print pubs covering enviro issues.

    Grist staff Culture

  • From Thandie to Tahoe

    Newton’s first law of vandalism On a scale of one to WTF, we rate this a solid WTF: Greenpeace activist leaves anti-SUV sticker on random land yacht; random land yacht turns out to belong to B-list movie star Thandie Newton; Newton takes anti-SUV message to heart, buys Prius, writes impassioned letter to fellow celebs urging […]

    David Roberts & Sarah van Schagen Culture

  • We’re in it!

    Vanity Fair green cover
    (photo credit: Mark Seliger, exclusively for Vanity Fair.)

    I have here in my hot little hands the latest issue of Vanity Fair, which, though alleged not to hit newsstands until April 11, mysteriously arrived at the Fremont PCC several days early.

    It's the "green" issue, with great feature pieces from Al Gore and Mark Hertsgaard, and a 20-or-so-page photo spread with environmental notables of various sorts -- including the "E-gitators," pictured above. Go e-gitators! (I guess that makes Chip's new kid an e-gitator tot.) From left to right: Graham Hill of Treehugger, Jennifer Boulden and Heather Stephenson of IdealBite, Laurie David of StopGlobalWarming, and our very own Chip Giller.

    Debate rages about who came off as more rakish and handsome, Graham or Chip. I think my wife more or less nailed it when she said, "Graham is more WB handsome; Chip is more Discovery Channel handsome." I guess we can live with that. (Good call keeping the stubble, Chip!)

    But ladies ... can we talk about the Mary-Tyler-Moore-style sweater belts? Did this get trendy when I wasn't looking? Cause I don't care if your belt is made of bamboo and crafted by workers in a well-paid Guatemalan peasant collective, sweater belts is fugly, and I'd hate to see such lovely, talented, committed e-gitators end up getting fugged.

    Anyway, as far as I know, none of the content is available online yet -- so just go out and buy it on a newsstand near you. You can put Chip on your wall!

    He's come a long way, baby.


    David Roberts Culture