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New documentary is like ‘The Real World’ for farming
Photo by Ben Williams. Filmmaker Hailey Wist’s documentary The Garden Summer is the true story of five strangers picked to live on a farm, work together, and have their lives taped. Wist recruited...
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Most climate communication only reaches partisans
There’s a kind of folk myth out there that the profusion of media sources on the internet means that everyone is seeking out only sources that reinforce their preexisting beliefs — that people are...
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David Attenborough narrates video of a tortoise humping a shoe
You may remember the internet going mildly crazy for this video of a tortoise with sexual identity issues. (Not his identity, just the identity of his chosen mate, which is a Croc.) It had all the...
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Facebook will sell me to you, and you to me
Photo by Doran. First Google turned links into money. Now Facebook is turning likes into money. To flesh that out: A decade ago, Google found a way to profit from the preferences each of us expressed...
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Flash mob proves conclusively that cars are the most annoying ever
Flash mob factory Improv Everywhere stages weird, transcendent little moments of cooperation, synchronicity, and pantslessness (they’re the ones behind the No-Pants Subway Ride). But their latest...
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Newly discovered mushroom is actually a rubber vagina
Well here’s a story that sounds like an urban legend: Villagers in China unearthed a mysterious plant that they thought might be some type of mushroom. It’s described as “fleshy and meaty,” with...
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We’ll be right back, after these quick falsehoods
This show looks boring. From ThinkProgress: According to a new analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, 85 percent of spending on presidential ads by the top spending conservative 501(c)(4)...
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The news pays almost 50 times more attention to Kardashians than to ocean...
It’s probably not a huge surprise that ocean acidification, a carbon-induced chemical change that poses a huge threat to sea life, gets way less media coverage than the Kardashians, a family of...
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Media ignore climate change in reporting on wildfires
“The major television and print outlets largely ignored climate change in their coverage of wildfires in Colorado, New Mexico and other Western states,” reports Media Matters in a new study. “All...
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Fox News thinks pollution is good for the planet
Not that it’s a HUGE surprise that Fox News has beliefs about the environment that are the opposite of true, but just FYI, they are now apparently telling viewers that pollution is good for forests....
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Mr. Daisey and the fact factory
Here’s some facts: Mike Daisey is a dramatic monologuist who traveled to Shenzhen, China, and created a successful one-man show based on the trip, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. The show details...
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Mike Daisey, climate, and greater truths
Mike Daisey. (Photo by Aaron Webb.) I wasn’t going to write anything about the Mike Daisey affair — Grist’s own editor Scott Rosenberg said what needed to be said — but the tone of the subsequent...
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Media produces, laments public ignorance on gas prices
[See update at bottom.] Painful source: Why can't the media get gas prices right? Media coverage of gas prices has made me want to smash my head on my desk. So it was with some amusement that I read...
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What it means for media to take climate seriously
After I exchanged tweets with journalist and editor Wen Stephenson, now proprietor and writer for The Roost at ThoreauFarm.org, he asked me for an email interview/exchange. I happily agreed and he ran...
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The Washington Post speaks the truth on climate change
The Washington Post deserves enormous credit for the editorial on climate change it ran this weekend. There is usually no more reliable barometer of elite conventional opinion than the Post, but in...
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The Solyndra sideshow peters out
Time to pack up the Solyndra circus, boys. (Photo by Thomas Totz.) No one is more invested in seeing the Solyndra investigation continue to produce “news” than Politico, so it’s significant that...
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Climate change is already harshing the weather
Things are getting weird around here. (Photo by Zach Frailey.) In a sane world, a 2011 filled with spectacularly bizarre weather followed by a winter and spring that are record-shatteringly hot — out...
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April fooled? Spot the real news among made-up stories
Photo by Mykl Roventine. Everyone knows we love a good April Fools’ Day story. But in the rabbit hole of daily existence, it gets harder each year to distinguish between bizarre true stories that land...
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HuffPo science editor asks readers: Is climate science true?
Science reporting: You're doing it wrong. [SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM] Hey, Huffington Post: I’m not one to tell you how to do your business — your budget for the time it takes me to write this sentence is...
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Public understanding of climate change: Getting warmer
I think they're getting it. (Photo by B Rosen.) Cross-posted from Climate Progress. To go by the polls, the high point of public understanding of climate science was 2006 to 2008. That’s no surprise,...
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Voracious readers: The first Food Book Fair will offer a little taste of...
Elizabeth Thacker Jones, creator of the Food Book Fair. As more people spend time thinking, writing, reading, and talking about food, the need for in-person forums to enhance the kinds of idea-sharing...
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How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science
Photo by Jonathan Hynkle. Today the Huffington Post won a Pulitzer Prize. Congratulations, Huffington Post! Now you’re in the club. I’m sure the execs at The Washington Post and The Wall Street...
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‘Verification in reverse': A chat with Jay Rosen
Friday I chatted with NYU professor, blogger, and media critic Jay Rosen as I began thinking about The Huffington Post’s story about the letter from NASA retirees criticizing the agency’s climate...
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Occupy Wall Street 2.0: A chat with the editor of Adbusters
Kalle Lasn. Cross-posted from Solutions Journal. Founder and editor of Adbusters magazine, Kalle Lasn is largely credited for conceptualizing and starting the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti...
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The weirdest, worst PR crap we’ve seen this Earth Day
Oh, Denis Hayes and Gaylord Nelson, what hath ye wrought. Though Earth Day was founded with good intentions, the holiday has long since been co-opted by flacks from all trades as another great...
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Why is the Discovery Channel ignoring climate change science?
The Discovery Channel isn’t a climate change denier, but it’s certainly shaping up to be an equally formidable foe — a climate change avoider. Media outlets and activists are lambasting the network...
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Colbert mocks group that blames immigrants for climate change
“Immigrants cause global warming!” says Stephen Colbert. “It’s always an immigrant who’s cutting my grass with an exhaust-spewing lawnmower. … And their spicy food always increases my emissions.” In a...
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Wind farms DO NOT cause climate change
A study that just came out in Nature Climate Change found that wind farms can impact local temperatures, particularly at night. Basically, the turbines mix warmer air from high up with colder air...
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Fox News has finally figured out that low gas prices are bad
We’ve been saying for a while that expensive gas is good news — not just because the expense of filling a tank could drive people into the arms of bikes and subways, but because affordable gas is a...
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The coolest photo from Sunday’s eclipse
Photo by Ben Brockert. Aw shit, it’s Loki. (As far as we know, this was taken and first posted by engineer Ben Brockert, with the very funny caption “I’m sorry to inform you that Earth is about to be...
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