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Brown Grad’s Environmental Online Magazine Earns Award
Published in The Providence Journal: September 16, 2009
By Peter B. Lord
Chip Giller, a 1993 graduate of Brown University who now lives in Seattle, is one of this year's recipients of a $100,000 Heinz Award for his work creating a Web magazine that delivers environmental news with humor.
Giller launched Grist.org in 1999 with the idea of avoiding the impression that all environmentalists did was spread gloom. He thought he could promote positive, green journalism with a humorous tone.
Since then, his nonprofit endeavor has grown to 25 employees with funding from the Ford Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
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