James Glave is a former Outside magazine senior editor and a one-time editor for Conde Nast's Wired News. Over a 17-year career in journalism and publishing—both online and off—he's written for a variety of publications and Web sites, including the New York Times Magazine, The Globe & Mail, This Old House, Details, Men's Journal, and Best Life. He currently lives with his wife, Elle, and two children on an island just off Vancouver, British Columbia. His new book is ALMOST GREEN: How I Saved 1/6th of a Billionth of the Planet from Skyhorse Publishing, and he blogs at glave.com.

Blog Entries by James Glave

Is GreenTech Too Girly?

6 Comments | Posted October 28, 2008 | 11:18 AM (EST)


Plug-in hybrids, windmills, and clothes lines? Dude, that stuff is for chicks, right?

All glibness aside, a new survey of what Americans believe about the climate crisis -- and why -- reveals that a majority of those surveyed consider the issue to be more soft and feminine than strong and...

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''Strategic" Voters Aim to Bump Canada's Harper

4 Comments | Posted October 13, 2008 | 04:30 PM (EST)


Could a scrappy web site have a shot at squeezing America's leading and most reliable supply of petroleum?

It's a long shot, but its organizers sure hope so. As Canadians go to the polls Tuesday to choose a new federal government, hundreds of thousands of green-leaning voters are logging on...

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Sarah, Meet the Culdesactivists

Posted September 9, 2008 | 05:27 PM (EST)


When Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani belittled the work of the nation's community organizers, they dissed the often-thankless efforts of change agents working to solve the pressing challenges of America's inner cities.

But along the way they also pshawed a still-largely-invisible army of regular people like you and me who...

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Wipe That Green Grin Off Your Face

Posted September 4, 2008 | 01:33 PM (EST)


I once worked with an art director who had a unique approach to dealing with the tricky conflicts and bitter power struggles that festered away in his department. When I asked him how things were going, he'd flash me a thumbs-up, paste on a grin, and say, "Hey, it's all...

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