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  • Ask Umbra on toilet paper, dryer balls, and Twitter

    Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, Is it more environmentally sound to throw tissue paper in the toilet or in the trash?  I’m disturbed by how much toilet paper is used by one family alone and wonder just what it takes to remove all that paper from the sewage system and from the […]

  • The earth’s decade

    Generations from now, long after the last Twitter follower has unfriended the last Facebook user, this decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that remain to provide oxygen to our […]

  • Copenhagen: a look back at the most striking narratives

    Let the untangling of Copenhagen begin!Photo: Adam Selwood via Flickr Creative CommonsLast week was absolutely extraordinary, full of more drama and consequence than anything I’ve witnessed in the green world in the six years I’ve been covering it. It was the coming together of so many forces and narratives that the tangle will likely be […]

  • Three reasons to follow Climate Progress on Twitter

    To follow Climate Progress on Twitter, click here.  Here’s why you should: It’s a modern, portable version of a news teletype. I will be in Copenhagen and tweeting. Your (online) neighbors are doing it! Let me elaborate:   1.  It’s like a modern news teletype.  Some may think Twitter is only for dishing out 140 […]

  • Take the environment out of sustainability, argues former Sierra Club chief

    Adam WerbachAdam Werbach’s career is something of a lodestar for the trajectory of the 21st century American environmental movement. A student activist tutored at the knee of the Archdruid himself, the legendary David Brower, Werbach was elected the youngest president of the Sierra Club in 1996 at age 23.  Then business beckoned and he launched […]

  • Top Twitterers the Grist staff can’t live without

    Sure, we could compile a list of the “Top 1,000 Greens to Follow on Twitter” — because there are at least that many worthy of the title. But is it just us, or are you curious about who we, the writers and editors at Grist, actually follow and favor on Twitter ourselves? You are? We […]