Articles by Chris Schults

Gristy Road

Dear Gristmillians,

I'm getting a little worried about some of my fellow Grist staffers. As you may know, Grist is growing in both size and ambition, and has outgrown our current office. We must move -- but to where?

We've tried cramming into a Flexcar parked behind our old space, but that is just not working out. Among other things, we can't seem to agree on one radio station. So, we're off in search of a new location where we'll hopefully have a little more elbow room. But finding cheap office space in downtown Seattle isn't easy.

Tom, Grist's web production assistant, discovered several Gristers aimlessly walking around and crossing the streets of Seattle (without looking both ways!). He snapped the (strangely familiar) photo above to document our current plight.

We have exciting plans to expand and improve Grist and need your support to make them happen. Please lend a hand and help Grist get a move on.

And since we won't be needing our Flexcar memberships, we'll be giving them away to six lucky donors who contribute $50 or more by 11:59 p.m. PDT tonight. (And yes, the bamboo bike by Calfee Design and Miōn shoes are still up for grabs as well.)

Appreciatively,

Chris Schults
Web Production Manager

CEI at it again

Oh brother. CEI is at it again with a "special web-only bonus" titled Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story.

Electric_Penguin over at Hugg.com sums it up nicely:

CEI has created quite the moral dilemma for themselves. They are condemning Al Gore for generating dramatically more Carbon Dioxide emissions than an average person while traveling around the world giving speeches on global warming. You can't condemn Al Gore for traveling and contributing to Global Warming when you are denying Global Warming exists. Either "CO2 is life" or Global Warming exists and the balancing act between to little and too much begins.

Virtual fish

Seeing how it is World Ocean Day (and being the geek that I am), I'd like to follow up my virtual ecology post with this: virtual schools of fish.

While real-world fish need to worry about climate change, toxic runoff, and what have you, virtual fish run the risk of "swimming off world." (Would that be like the dolphins in A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?)

Bio-Skate

As Sarah mentioned, this week's InterActivist co-owns Comet Skateboards. I first learned about the company from this video that aired on Current TV.

Check it out if you want to see their solar-powered factory, learn how they make their sustainable 'boards, and watch some skaters tearing it up at over 50 MPH.