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Grist seeks volunteers for top-secret Facebook project
Do you
waste untold hoursspend time on Facebook? And enjoy a casual obsession with the latest environmental news? Do you like top-secret projects?If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, consider volunteering for one of the highly coveted beta tester spots for Grist's top-secret Facebook project. We'll need virtual volunteers during the first two weeks of February. If you want in, shoot an email with your full name and age to abraun@grist.org.
To the curious, non-Facebook folk out there, sorry to leave you hanging for now, but all will be revealed later in February.
And in case you didn't realize how much fun Grist is already having on social networks, fan/friend/follow/Digg us on these sites!
- Become a fan of Grist on Facebook
- Friend Grist on MySpace
- Follow Grist on Twitter
- Subscribe to GristTV on YouTube
- Friend Grist and digg our stories on Digg.com
- Join Grist's Flickr group (for the chance to land your photos in Grist stories!)
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Join the local movement with Grist
If you call Seattle home, we've got news for you ...
First things first: Howdy, neighbor! Grist is based in Seattle, too. Sure, we've got our political reporter in D.C. and an organic farmer in N.C., but most of us live and work -- and try to be as green as we can be -- within spitting distance of the Space Needle (relatively speaking, that is).
That's why we've launched Grist Local: Seattle, a weekly email featuring event listings, sustainable business profiles, and other news about the green scene in the Emerald City. You can get it zapped straight to your inbox every Wednesday for the low, low price of free! (And worth every penny.)
In fact, if you sign up now, you'll get your very first Grist Local email bright and early tomorrow (fresh off the presses). Here's a sneak peak:
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Grist predicted the ass-fat trend that could land one Beverly Hills doc in the slammer
Back when I was a Grist underling intern, I wrote a piece about the world’s strangest biofuel sources, including, ahem, ass fat. Now it appears that using that trunk junk to power your car is not only gag-worthy, but also illegal. Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner is under investigation for using his patients’ flab […]
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Create a ‘Why I heart Grist’ video for Project for Awesome
Do you love Grist? How about making videos? And it’s probably safe to assume you’re OK with awesome-ness, right? Yeah? Well, you’re in luck. Here’s your chance to tell the world why you think Grist is so “intelligent,” “relevant,” and “downright funny” (as it’s been said before). In partnership with YouTube, Hank and John Green […]
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Food Fight snags documentary honor
For those of you who don’t get quite enough of my writing, you can see me holding forth on the big screen! That is, if the documentary Food Fight finds a distributor. I hope it does; I hear it’s good. (I do get quite enough of my writing, and I’m repelled by the idea of […]
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PBS’s Now on green jobs
For some reason they don’t allow their videos to be embedded on other sites — luddites! — but if you want to click over and watch it, PBS’s show NOW recently did an episode on green jobs. As it happens, NOW also interviewed Grist’s Dear Leader Chip Giller on the subject. Check it out.
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Vote early, vote often to help Grist win $10K in the MySpace Impact Awards for Environmentalism
You (and all your MySpace friends) can help land Grist a cool $10,000 just by exercising your right to vote (again), which is way better than us searching for loose change in our couch. Grist is one of three finalists in the MySpace Impact Awards for Environmentalism, which gives props (and moolah) to organizations and […]
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Hey
Go vote in our EPA poll! (FYI, Dan Esty is winning in a landslide. Dan, did you tell your students to come rock the vote?)
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Obama on Grist
Just for kicks, I went and searched for the very first mention of Obama’s name on Grist. It came on 27 July 2004, the day of Obama’s fateful speech to the Democratic National Convention, in a dispatch from Mary Sullivan, a delegate. This is what she said: Most inspiring was Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic candidate […]