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Green Medal

Cities Bidding for 2012 Olympics Stress Green Credentials The cities hoping to host the 2012 Summer Olympics are thinking green. Juan Antonio Samaranch, former president of the International Olympic Committee, has said that the environment is “the third dimension of Olympism, the first and second being sport and culture.” Most observers trace a full-blown focus […]

A progressive media honcho answers questions

What work do you do? I’m the editor of The Progressive magazine and the director of the Progressive Media Project. I am also the host of a half-hour weekly radio show unimaginatively called Progressive Radio, and I do two-minute radio commentaries five days a week at our website, which some stations pick up. In addition, […]

Taking the LEED

Green Landscaping and Building Catches on in Cities Here at Grist, our unflagging good humor is bulletproof, but we imagine less-medicated enviros need the occasional boost. The place to get one, strangely enough, might just be in the crowded urban area nearest you. Property owners large and small are starting to think green. Urban landscape […]

Haiku, Haiku, to You and You and You

The $40,000 matching grant that’s fueling our Haiku Hullabaloo runs out at midnight tonight, and with it, our fundraiser. We know what you’re thinking: “Thank GAWD.” Believe us, we’re relieved too. You think it’s easy writing oodles of witty haiku-themed headlines? We don’t do it for our health. We do it because we rely on […]

Backstroke

Bush Administration Will Continue to Protect Wild Salmon Responding to a hurricane of criticism over its plans to count hatchery fish along with wild fish in determining which species to protect under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration is now pledging to safeguard wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. It announced on Friday that […]

Growing Controversy

U.N. Food Agency Supports Biotech Crops The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization waded into the debate over genetically modified crops today, and anti-biotech activists are none too happy about the development. A new report from the FAO argues that biotech crops hold “great promise” for alleviating the suffering of the world’s poor, as they can […]

Virtuous Cycle

It’s Bike-to-Work Week! Put down the car keys and hop on the ten-speed: It’s national Bike to Work week! According to the Census Bureau, 99.7 percent of Americans burn gasoline on their way to work, so yes, we’re talking to you. As to the potential benefits, we turn over the mike to cycling enthusiast Julius […]

Readers sound off on capitalism, bottled water, and, yet again, the Sierra Club election

  From the Hawken’s Mouth Re: From Here to Economy Dear Editor: I think Stan Cox’s piece is wonderful and I am glad to see it published. Entropy and thermodynamics are consistently excised from mainstream economics and it is good to see them re-injected. Nevertheless, the author has made a rather odd and unusual error […]

What Can Brown Do for You?

Cow Poop Powers California Dairy A well-fed dairy cow produces 120 pounds of poop a day — some 43,000 pounds a year. What to do with all that doo? Dairy farmer Albert Straus of Marin County, Calif., puts it in a big covered lagoon, where it decomposes and generates tons of methane gas, which he […]

X-mice

Genetic Damage from Air Pollution May Be Heritable Air pollution can cause genetic mutations, and those mutations can be passed along to offspring, according to a new report in the journal Science. A pair of Canadian researchers ran a study on two groups of mice, both located downwind from two steel mills in air containing […]