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The Kindest Cut

Companies Show that Cutting Emissions Can Improve Performance President Bush and many Republicans in Congress complain that restricting emissions of carbon dioxide would hobble the U.S. economy, but a growing number of companies are showing that cutting emissions can help the bottom line and they are pursuing reductions far greater than the voluntary ones proposed […]

The Great Green North

Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada’s Boreal Forests A huge forest-protection initiative will get off the ground in Canada today, aiming to put half of the nation’s northern boreal forests — some 650 million acres — off-limits to logging and development, and to ensure that activity in the other half is carefully controlled and eco-friendly. […]

Blue-CFL-Light Special

Sales Boost Expected for Energy-Efficient Products What’s the perfect holiday gift for the loved one who has everything? Try five compact fluorescent light bulbs. With energy prices expected to balloon this winter, experts are predicting increased sales of energy-efficient consumer products in the U.S. over the coming months. Home Depot recently published a catalog showcasing […]

The Fur Is Flying — Off the Shelves

Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species Fur is making a comeback on fashion runways — and that means trouble for a number of endangered animals, according to an official with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. In the 1980s and ’90s, fur was largely out of vogue and thus the animal skin […]

Tara Wesely, Rivers for Life meeting

Tara Wesely is attending the Rivers for Life meeting in Thailand. She is assistant manager of environmental sustainability at Aveda Corp. and a fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program. Monday, 1 Dec 2003 RASI SALAI, Thailand Bamboo amazes me. You can eat it, cook with it, build with it, even decorate with it. I slept […]

Meeting His Waterloo?

House Tells Bush to Leave Clean Water Act Rules Alone More than half of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives last week told President Bush to back off from proposed changes that would reduce protections for wetlands and streams under the Clean Water Act. In a letter sent to Bush, 218 representatives, including […]

Eat Lots, Buy Little, and Try Not to Miss Us Too Much

Grist Takes Publishing Hiatus Until Dec. 1 In honor of Thanksgiving and Buy Nothing Day, Grist will be taking a three-day publishing break beginning tomorrow. But fret not — we’ll be back, wiser and wittier than ever, on Monday, Dec. 1. Happy holidays!

NRDC’s new Santa Monica building may be the most eco-friendly in the U.S.

Do you realize we are gathered in what must be the greenest building in the United States?” Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Frances Beinecke asked a crowd of well-scrubbed Californians gathered for the opening ceremony of the organization’s new SoCal headquarters in Santa Monica. Swilling mimosas and nibbling croissants on the building’s sunny, plant-strewn […]

Bloody Appalling

Britons’ Bodies Contaminated with a Stew of Chemicals A cocktail of toxic chemicals was found in the bodies of every person tested as part of a British study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. In one of the most comprehensive such surveys to date, 155 people from around the U.K. had their blood analyzed for […]

I’m Just a Bill, and I’m Still Sitting Here on Capitol Hill

Energy Bill Is Doomed for This Year Republican Senate leaders threw in the towel on the big energy bill last night, admitting that they couldn’t muster the two additional votes needed to pass the controversial legislative package before Congress takes its holiday recess. The failure to pass the bill this year represents a stinging defeat […]