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  • Help us get haiku

    We asked for your best Earth Day haikus, and you rhymed beyond reason. Vote now to help Grist pick a winner!

  • ‘Drowning in Oil’ contest rules

      ‘Drowning in Oil’ Reader Contest Official Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations   NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.    Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules.  The McGraw-Hill book “Drowning in Oil” contest commences at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time on December 6, 2010 and ends at 11:59 […]

  • Vote for your favorite T-shirt slogan

    We asked our audience for suggestions for our new T-shirt slogan. After sifting through a deluge of responses we received via email, Twitter, Facebook, and comments on the site, we narrowed down the list as best we could ... to five. The staff nearly resorted to fisticuffs trying to agree on only two slogans, so we decided to give you the five options we love the most. Cast your vote now.

  • Grist needs a T-shirt slogan

    Dearest readers, help us come up with a slogan for our 2011 T-shirt! Comment on this post with your wittiest suggestions. The Grist staff will select our two favorite slogans and then, you, our beloved audience, will vote on the winner. The author of the winning slogan will receive eternal fame and glory as well as a free T-shirt!

  • Win some free ‘Dirt!’

    Dearest readers, I’m giving away DVDs of Dirt! The Movie signed by the directors to eight lucky readers. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, the film is a glorious ode to the “living skin of the Earth” we so often taken for granted—an homage to dirt, if you will. All you have to do is let […]

  • Ask Umbra’s Earth Day book giveaway

    Dearest readers, Happy Earth Day! How are you celebrating? Perhaps by tweeting your little heart out about all the hopeful things going on in the environmental movement (don’t forget to add #hopen)? Well, since you’re on there anyway, why not participate in my little book giveaway? That’s right! Free stuff! Woot! I’m giving away two […]

  • The environMENTALIST contest

    One of my guilty pleasures is the CBS crime show, The Mentalist.  One-time fake psychic Patrick Jane uses his powers of observation and deduction to figure out the answer to the mystery before everyone else. So here’s the contest for all you would-be environ-Mentalists.  Use your amazing powers of observation and deduction to figure out […]

  • Replace the “Saudi Arabia of wind/solar/etc power” trope

    How many times have you heard that Place X is the “Saudi Arabia of solar power” or “Saudi Arabia of wind power” or “Saudi Arabia of geothermal”?  Kate Galbraith of The New York Times‘ Green Inc. blog has heard it one too many times, so she’s launched a contest for a new phrase to describe […]