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Grist.org Grist food writer & farmer Tom Philpott in Newsweek on how the government can help rebuild infrastructure for small farms.

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A small farmer on how the government can help rebuild the infrastructure he needs to survive.
Nancy Painter
Nancy Painter
We need to buy local and support the building of local food and energy infrastructure. It's time to stop supporting mass produced low quality food...it's killing us!
November 13 at 8:48pm
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Grist.org Seattleites: Don't forget to join us at long-time Grist reporter Amanda Little's book launch and reception at Elliott Bay this Thursday. Meet and greet with your fave hometown Grist writers and staffers, and mooch off our free snacks!

We'll talk books, booze, and enviro news
Location:Elliott Bay Book Company
Time:7:00PM Thursday, November 12th
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Grist.org Grist's David Roberts asks the question: If the clean energy & climate bill fails, can the EPA's CO2 regulations still be blocked?

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It's widely assumed that if Congress fails to pass a clean energy bill, the EPA will step in with regulations on CO2 under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007's Mass. v EPA that it must ...
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Grist.org Climate justice is a civil rights issue, says Majora Carter. What ways do you think environmentalists can learn from the civil rights movement?

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Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, environmental justice advocate, and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient talks to Grist about how the climate justice movement is a continuation of the civil rights movement. ...
Judy
Judy
It's an issue for everyone, of course, but statistics, economics and inequity "make it" a skin color issue, as well. As with most bad things, global warming disproportionately impacts some folks more than others: http://ejcc.org/cj/.
November 9 at 8:22pm
Scott Heidegger
Scott Heidegger
Oh, for god's sake, it's a people issue. People of poverty (regardless of color) are likely to be most impacted.
November 9 at 10:23pm
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Grist.org Today Umbra addresses crap of the educational and evacuational varieties, along with even more greeny goodness. What better way to spend your Monday?

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Advice maven Umbra Fisk tackles low-flow toilets, climate-skeptic teachers, New Year's resolutions, and green choices for daily life.
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Grist.org Hey, EPA, even if Grist's David Roberts doesn't agree with everything these EPA lawyers are saying, we still think trying to censor them is uncool.

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Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. ...
Tim
Tim
wow. this is crazy. i'm glad the EPA is actually trying to enforce laws they are supposed to enforce, but they should not be doing this.
November 6 at 4:20pm
Jay Lee
Jay Lee
they should have the freedom to be wrong -- their criticism of cap and trade and acid rain program, that redux were achieved by fuel switching, misses the point. C&T works because it doesn't say how to achieve reductions, only that reductions must be achieved. close the loopholes, like get rid of the turd-polishing CCS 'clean coal' -- don't subsidize dirty energy to the disadvantage of clean energy.
November 6 at 8:07pm
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Grist.org How to talk to everyday Americans about climate change ... learn with cartoons!

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Getting Americans to wake up to the reality of climate change is no easy task. But experts at Columbia University believe a mix of psychology, anthropology, and behavioral economics can help, and they've written a guide with cartoons showing how.
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Grist.org Watch actor & funnyman Aziz Ansari (NBC's Parks & Recreation) talk about the ideal carbon footprint size and other, ahem, important green issues.

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Aziz Ansari is funny. An actor and comedian, you may have seen Aziz on NBC's Parks and Recreation or MTV's Human Giant. If you haven't seen him, see him here when he talks with Grist about his involvement with the Kyoto Protocol and what he's doing to lessen his carbon foot and handprints.
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Grist.org Do you know where your senators stand on climate? Help us
find out: http://bit.ly/Sb9lv More at our Climate
Citizens Project: http://bit.ly/Q56u3

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Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced a climate bill on Sept. 30: the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Do your senators support the bill, and do they support action against climate change in general? Help us find out!
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Grist.org Endocrine disruption, meet political corruption. Are you worried about BPA in consumer and food products?

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Bisphenol A, commonly abbreviated as BPA, is vile stuff--not the kind of thing a smart species knowingly introduces into its ecosystem. Tom Philpott marvels that we're doing just that---and storing food in it, no less.

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