Grist Magazine

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Grist Magazine (also referred to as Grist.org or Grist) is an award-winning online magazine that publishes environmental news and views from an irreverent perspective, motivating its readers to take action on behalf of the environment. Grist’s credo: Pull no punches, take no prisoners, and try to have a better sense of humor than a pack of fur protesters. Launched in April 1999, Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Utne have all written about Grist’s unique take on environmental news. Opinions by Grist’s editors have appeared recently 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 Utne's Independent Press Award for Best Online Political Coverage and the Webby People's Voice Award for Best Magazine in both 2005 and 2006.

Chip Giller is founder and editor of Grist. Chip 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.

[edit] Content and coverage

Grist offers in-depth reporting, features, opinion pieces, daily dispatches from activists, book reviews, consumer news, environmental advice, and more--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 the shadowy Umbra Fisk, the "Grist List," covering green celebrities and oddities, as well as a pair of business columns, one written by Joel Makower and the other by two bigwigs at SustainAbility, John Elkington and Mark Lee. Grist also summarizes the day's environmentally related news events in "Daily Grist," available by email or on the web, usually five to seven items long.

Grist has published special issues on poverty & the environment [1], Hurricane Katrina, and the controversy surrounding an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called "The Death of Environmentalism." [2]

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

[edit] 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.