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Waterkeepers question use of dispersant chemicals at oil-spewing wellhead
The chief executive of BP says crews have been able to reduce the amount of oil reaching the Gulf’s surface from a massive underwater leak by using chemicals at the […]
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Friday music blogging: Dr. Dog again
I’ve written about Dr. Dog before, which violates a self-imposed FBM rule, but I’m feeling lazy and they’re great and they just came out with a new album. And it’s […]
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Live Chat with Umbra Fisk
Editor’s note: The chat’s now over, but you can replay it in full. Umbra Fisk chatted live with our Friends with Benefits on April 21, 2010. And in the midst […]
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Reduce, Recycle, and Replant – Data Highlights on Restoring the World's Forests
The world’s forests, which cover a third of Earth’s land area, provide us with many essential services. They absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and give us oxygen, limit soil […]
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Saving Civilization is Not a Spectator Sport
Given the enormous environmental and social challenges faced by our early twenty-first century global civilization, one of the questions I hear most frequently is, What can I do? People often […]
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Plan B – A Plan to Save Civilization
There is much that we do not know about the future. But one thing we do know is that business as usual, including our continuing failure to reverse the environmental […]
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Corn Ethanol Lobby's $ 2.5 million ad campaign
Click here to see my anti-propaganda propaganda film. For the full effect, turn your speakers on before playing it. I see it has already drawn a video response from a […]
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The Best Way to Celebrate Earth Day
It’s that time of year again. Earth Day. The 2010 edition marks the 40th anniversary. If Congress wants to score some environmental and economic “green” for the planet, it should […]
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Featured Friend: Don “Dr. Doom” Conway-Long
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next […]
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Don Blankenship called safety regulators ‘as silly as global warming’
Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. The death toll from Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine explosion last week has reached a total of 29 miners, the worst coal disaster in […]
