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read more[Translate] Grist 29 Apr 2013 6:52 PM By David Roberts Ryan L. Cooper, the able young web editor over at Washington Monthly, is the guy who remixed my TEDx talk to such nifty effect. Now he’s finished a new climate video of his own, which he produced and narrated. Ryan will be the first to tell you that he’s not a video production guru. He’s an amateur, figuring stuff out on the fly. He just feels like he needs to be doing something, so he’s doing something. Would that there were more like him. Here’s the video: Feel free to critique, but don’t be a...
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read more[Translate] Ben Affleck is going to eat like a poor person [Updated] By Sarah Miller Gene Bromberg “So hungry. Can’t wait to have a nice big meal tomorrow.” Editor’s Note: This story relied on a report in Us Weekly, which said Affleck would be doing his eat-like-a-poor-person thing for just one day. That’s wrong. In fact, it’s clear from Affleck’s Twitter feed (and the campaign it points to) that Affleck intends to do this for five days and he’s doing it to get other people to join him, which is a worthy goal. Grist apologizes for the error. We never should have doubted you, Ben! Call us! I want to be clear about something. I love Ben Affleck. I love him how you only love someone to whom you have spent most of your...
read more[Translate] San Francisco and 10 other cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies By John Upton Shutterstock / Nickolay Stanev San Francisco had another bright idea. Oil companies might be awfully profitable right now, but political leaders in San Francisco and 10 other U.S. cities want to dump their investments in them anyway. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted this week to urge the city’s investment fund managers to sell off more than $583 million worth of shares in Chevron, ExxonMobil, and some 200 other fossil-fuel companies. This makes San Francisco the biggest city to join the divestment campaign being pushed by 350.org, which began with a focus on colleges and universities. Seattle was the first city to join the campaign; its mayor got on board late last year. Divestment might...
read more[Translate] Locally owned businesses can help communities thrive — and survive climate change By Stacy Mitchell myoldpostcards Small businesses offer big benefits. Cities where small, locally owned businesses account for a relatively large share of the economy have stronger social networks, more engaged citizens, and better success solving problems, according to several recently published studies. And in the face of climate change, those are just the sort of traits that communities most need if they are to survive massive storms, adapt to changing conditions, find new ways of living more lightly on the planet, and, most important, nurture a vigorous citizenship that can drive major changes in policy. That there’s a connection between the ownership structure of our economy and the vitality of our democracy may sound a bit odd to modern ears....
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