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| URL | http://grist.org/ |
| Type of site | News |
| Created by | Staff writers |
| Launched | April 1999 |
Grist (originally Grist Magazine; also referred to as Grist.org) is a free American non-profit online magazine that publishes environmental news and opinion articles. Launched in April 1999, Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
This is not to be confused with the 1960s poetry magazine Grist by John Fowler, that included works by Charles Plymell (an editor on Grist), Robert Branaman and possibly the first published art by Steve "S. Clay" Wilson and his Checkered Demon's first appearance.
Newsweek has referred to Grist as "The Daily Show of the environment." Grist won the Webby People's Voice Award for Best Magazine in both 2005 and 2006 as well as Utne's Independent Press Award for Best Online Political Coverage.
Chip Giller is president and founder of Grist. Giller received the 2004 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, from the Tides Foundation in recognition of the role Grist is playing in increasing environmental awareness. Giller took first place in the 2001 AlterNet New Media Hero contest for his work on Grist and was one of five finalists for the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s 2002 "Environmental Messenger of the Year Award." Giller was previously the editor of Greenwire, the first environmental news daily, and a reporter for High Country News, a biweekly newspaper covering Western environmental issues.
Grist's taglines are "Gloom and doom with a sense of humor" and "A beacon in the smog".
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Content and coverage
Grist offers reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, and green advice. Its mission is "to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions."
Regular features include "Muckraker," a political column by Kate Sheppard, "Ask Umbra," an environmental advice column by Umbra Fisk, the "Grist List," covering green celebrities and pop culture, as well as "Victual Reality," Tom Philpott’s column on food and agricultural issues. Grist also summarizes the day's environmentally related news events in "Daily Grist," available by email.
Grist has published special issues on biofuels;[1] religion and the environment;[2] poverty and the environment[3]; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River;[4] Hurricane Katrina; and the controversy surrounding an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called "The Death of Environmentalism."
Contributors
Grist employs a full-time staff of 18 and relies on more than 100 contributors, including many prominent American environmentalists.
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Notes
- ^ Biofuels at Grist
- ^ Religion and the environment at Grist
- ^ Poverty and the environment at Grist
- ^ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River at Grist
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