Content and Coverage
Grist offers reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, and green advice. Its stated mission is "to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions."
Regular features include "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 and weekly email newsletters.
Main writers include David Roberts, Lisa Hymas, and Sarah Goodyear.
Eric Roston, a Grist contributor, referred to Grist as, "The Colbert Report of climate change, The Daily Show of deforestation, the Oprah of oil dependency -- except with real reporting and analytical journalism." in an article for Time magazine.
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