Articles by Grist staff

E.U. plans to slash climate emissions, United Nations to tackle e-waste, and more

Read the news items highlighted in this week’s podcast: 2020 Vision One Giant Bleep for Mankind Circuit Training Now If Only They’d Stop Serving Meat Creation Careless Sister Hazell Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Intent of a Woman Levels of Risk Trash Course

An interview with author Chip Heath about making environmental messages sticky

Quick, what’s the last political campaign slogan you remember? Is it the Democrats’ recent zinger, “Together, we can do better”? Probably not. You probably forgot that one before they got to “better.” Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Photo: Amy Surdacki In an age of instant media, ubiquitous advertising, and partisan politics, everyone wants to grab […]

He Believes in Miracles

Former Jamaican bobsled team founder seeks energy independence as mayor It’s a career crisis we’ve all faced at some point: what comes after you’ve created the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team? For George Fitch, now the mayor of Warrenton, Va., the answer stinks. Fitch wants to make the 8,000-person town energy independent by 2010 by building […]

Get Me Rewrite!

Part two of intergovernmental climate report no sunnier than part one No Monday would be complete without a dash of grim global-warming news, so here goes. Part deux of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is due out in April, and according to a draft, things are looking quite the opposite of good. The […]