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  • Doin’ What Comes Unnaturally

    GM joins climate pact, Citigroup pledges $50 billion to fight warming This week saw big businesses make big strides toward climate action — or at least talking about climate action. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership doubled its ranks, adding 14 businesses and green groups including GM, Dow Chemical, PepsiCo, and Shell. Since forming in January, […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Tony, We Hardly Knew Ye

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign, climate legacy mixed British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his resignation today in a short speech whose message amounted to, “Sorry about blindly following Bush. Forgive me?” Blair leaves in late June after 10 years at 10 Downing Street, with Finance Minister Gordon Brown expected to replace him. […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • Just because it’s awesome

    Occasionally I like to revisit one of the greatest magazine feature leads ever written: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. Perfect.

    David Roberts Culture

  • Canada may raise pesticide levels to match U.S.

    Every day there are roughly 1,347 stories I wish we could cover in Daily Grist. Here’s one that didn’t make the cut today, but that I can’t get out of my head: in an effort to bring its rules in line with the U.S., Canada is getting ready to raise allowable levels of pesticides on […]

    Katharine Wroth Food

  • The hits keep on comin’

    Senate Foreign Relations Testimony on the grave threat to our nation's security posed by global warming:

    • Admiral Joseph W. Prueher (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command and Former Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China;
    • General Charles F. Wald (PDF), USAF (Ret.), Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; and
    • Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly (PDF), USN (Ret.), Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the First Commander of the Naval Space Command.

    Memo to conservative global warming deniers: Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) asserts in his opening statement (PDF),"To adequately prepare our security and diplomatic forces for future threats, we need to understand how climate change might be a source of war and instability."

    This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • A smackdown in Congress

    The corruption and incompetence of the Bush Interior Dept. are legend at this point, so I won’t rehash it all here (though I can’t resist linking to this). Instead, I’ll just report that today, in a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Endangered Species Act, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) laid into Interior Deputy Secretary […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • Limits set on high seas bottom trawling

    More than 20 nations recently met in Chile to set up a regulatory body to watch over a huge swath of ocean. The meeting, which was targeted by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and included staff from Oceana's South American office, also netted (no pun intended) a landmark agreement that reels in high seas bottom trawling fleets. New regulations set to take effect next September will severely limit the destructive fishing method in waters from Australia to South America and from the Equator to the Antarctica.

    Destructive trawls and dredges used for commercial fishing have bulldozed entire seafloor environments. Today's decision is a major leap in the right direction toward protecting our oceans.

    Andrew Sharpless Uncategorized

  • My continuing quest for total domination of obscure niche media

    I forgot to mention that I was on EarthBeat radio the other day, which according to John Passacantando "does for environmental coverage on the airwaves what Grist Magazine does for the environment in the cyber world." And I think he means that’s a good thing! Anyway, you can go here to download the show. I […]

    David Roberts Culture

  • Umbra on class gifts, again

    Dear Umbra, My class also wants to give a greener gift when we graduate in 2008. We are starting to plan, and though your suggestion of solar power is awesome and very true, that will not be possible at my Seventh-Day Adventist school. We did not receive permission to do anything like that. Is there […]

    Ask Umbra® Culture

  • The Roscoe Culpepper Town Holler Coot

    I am wholly uninterested in the fact that Paul Watson thinks human beings are the "AIDS of the earth" and that the only solution is "a complete transformation of all human realities." What I do find fascinating is that this essay bashing Watson is written by “The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow.” The Boone Pickens […]

    David Roberts Culture