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Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon

Following Brazil’s recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for […]

Dennis Kucinich drops presidential bid

Dennis Kucinich, perhaps the most truly green of the presidential candidates — and a vegan! — has abandoned his bid for the White House. Take a last look at Grist’s interview with Kucinich and fact sheet on his policies, and shed a tear for what might have been — were the U.S. political landscape entirely […]

Homuncular Americans lose their greatest advocate

Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the presidential race, or as he puts it, “transiting out of the presidential campaign.” Good to see him leave on a note of support for public transportation. It is a widely held belief in liberal quarters, and in some pockets of the Grist office, that Kucinich was the greenest […]

Rule change eases restrictions on wolf kills in northern Rockies

Photo: iStockphoto The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it is altering a rule that will make it easier to kill gray wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Gray wolves in the area are still protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, though the FWS intends to delist them this spring and hand management […]

Nuclear power plants in U.S. Southeast may face shutdowns due to drought

Nuclear reactors across the U.S. Southeast could be forced to slow production or shut down in the near future due to the effects of continuing drought in the region. Nuclear power plants require massive amounts of water to cool steam that turns the generators; the water usually arrives via large intake pipes from nearby rivers […]

Al Gore breaks his silence!

But not on the presidential race:

On battling (plastic) bottled-up rage

My favorite surprise gift this past Christmas was an aluminum water bottle from my older brother, the family member I’d vote as “most likely to make fun of me for being an environmentalist.” After all, when I emailed the family my Christmas list with hopes of secondhand books and recycled running gear, he replied saying, […]

China unveils plan to fix polluted lakes

China has unveiled a plan to limit pollution in its lakes by 2010 and return lakes to their original, unpolluted state by 2030. Officials have specific plans to attain their goal: strictly regulate release of wastewater, close factories that heavily contribute to water pollution, improve sewage treatment, remove or limit fish farms, and ban highly […]

Van et al

A good if unoriginal roundup of socially conscious environmentalism. Seems to me this isn’t an either-or, but a both-and. We need the "corporate sellers of hybrid cars and organic Levis jeans" and we also need organizers in low-income communities. We don’t have to decide which represents Real Environmentalism, or what the green movement Really Is.

Aw shucks

Wait ’til they see my new ‘stache!