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Corporations love to talk about going green, but not many are planning for a changing climate
About a decade ago, Miguel Torres planted 104 hectares of pinot noir grapes in the Spanish Pyrenees, 3,300 feet above sea level. It’s cold up there and not much good […]
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Deep thoughts from founder Chip Giller
Every year as Earth Day approaches, there’s a moment when we here at Grist stare at each other around a conference table and say, “What the hell are we going […]
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From tobacco to climate change, ‘merchants of doubt’ undermined the science
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.”— Margaret Mead Because Americans are optimists we tend to see Mead’s observation as upbeat and life-affirming (as […]
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Who gets rich in a geoengineered world?
So yesterday was the official publication day for my new book How to Cool the Planet, an event that I’d like to mark by … taking a long nap. I’m […]
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Creative financing fuels California solar boom
Dropping my son off at school on Wednesday, I ran into Danny Kennedy, a fellow parent and veteran Australian Greenpeace activist turned solar entrepreneur. How’s business? I asked. Pretty bloody […]
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Google climate change chief wants price on carbon
Dan Reicher, Google’s director of climate changePhoto: Steve Rhodes via FlickrGoogle wants a price on carbon and wants it now — both for lofty reasons like combating global warming, but […]
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Abercrombie & Fitch + Weight Watchers Make the CRO Black List (VIDEO)
CRO Magazine proves that at Abercrombie & Fitch only the models are revealing. What is corporate responsibility and why should we care? Richard Crespin of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association […]
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The Perils of ‘Green Watching’
Earth Day is coming, and with it, hours and hours of “green” television programming and print media coverage. People who hardly give the environment a thought all year will be […]
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A bee wrangler shows you how to mind your own beeswax
From activists to politicians, everybody loves to talk about the promise of green jobs. But in reality, who the heck actually has a green job, and how do you get […]
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Taxpayer dollars subsidizing destruction
One way to correct market failures is tax shifting — raising taxes on activities that harm the environment so that their prices begin to reflect their true cost and offsetting […]
