Grist (magazine)

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Grist (originally Grist Magazine; also referred to as Grist.org) is an American non-profit online magazine that publishes environmental news and opinion articles. Launched in April 1999, Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Called "The Daily Show" of the environment by "Newsweek" and othersFact|date=May 2008, Grist has been cited in major media including "The New York Times", "BusinessWeek", "The Washington Post", "Outside" magazine, "Vanity Fair", the Weather Channel, PBS’s "NOW" series, National Public Radio, "The Japan Times", "Fast Company", ABC News, and the London "Independent". Opinions by "Grist" editors have appeared in "The Boston Globe" and the "San Francisco Chronicle". Grist features are regularly reprinted online at sites such as MSNBC, Salon, AlterNet, and many more. 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 vital 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".

Content and coverage

"Grist" offers in-depth reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, green advice, and a popular blog--all tailored to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions.

Regular features include "Muckraker," a political column by Amanda Griscom-Little, "Ask Umbra," a popular environmental advice column by sage 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 or on the web.

"Grist" has published special issues on biofuels [http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/12/04/biofuels/] , religion & the environment [http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/05/gate/] , poverty & the environment [http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/13/pate/] , the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River [http://www.grist.org/feature/2008/03/17/intro/] , Hurricane Katrina, and the controversy surrounding an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called "The Death of Environmentalism." [http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/]

All of "Grist"’s content is available free of charge.

Contributors

"Grist" employs a full-time staff of 18 and relies heavily on more than 100 contributors, including many of the most prominent environmental writers in the country.

* Rick Bass
* Lou Bendrick
* Adrienne Marie Brown
* Jane Roy Brown
* Steve Carter-Lovejoy
* Jon Christensen
* Osha Gray Davidson
* Mike Davis
* Gregory Dicum
* Liza Featherstone
* Emily Gertz
* Erica Gies
* Christy Harrison
* Paul Hawken
* Denis Hayes
* Kelly Hearn
* Mark Hertsgaard
* Michael J. Kavanagh
* Jane Holtz Kay
* Amanda Griscom Little
* Amory Lovins
* Bill McKibben
* Jim Motavalli
* Michelle Nijhuis
* Tom Philpott
* Jim Rossi
* Brendan Sainsbury
* Glenn Scherer

External links

* [http://grist.org/ Official website]
* [http://gristmill.grist.org/ Gristmill blog]
* [http://netvibes.com/grist Grist Netvibes Universe]
* [http://twitter.com/grist Grist on Twitter]