Articles by Grist staff

At Least You Didn’t Kill Kyoto

Grist offers one last chance to clear your conscience Well, friends, this is it: the very last chance you’ll have to write off the wrongs of 2005 and enter 2006 with a fresh, clean slate. Over the past two weeks, donations and confessions have come pouring in, as Grist Indulgence-buyers have relieved themselves of guilt […]

PVC-ing the Light

Microsoft will be PVC-free by the new year Keep up the pressure, letter-writers: In response to customer concern, Microsoft has joined Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and other large corporations in declaring, “No vinyl, that’s final!” The software giant announced yesterday that it has eliminated about 361,000 pounds of polyvinyl chloride packaging since July and will phase […]

Para Normal

Violence against activists continues in the Brazilian rainforest A trial begins in Brazil tomorrow for two men accused of murdering Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born nun who had spent 30 years in the Amazon opposing illegal ranching and logging that razed the rainforest and displaced peasant farmers. But despite promises from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula […]

As the World Spurns

U.S. attacked on three fronts for obstructing climate action Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin took direct aim at the U.S. during yesterday’s climate summit meetings in Montreal, reproaching the planet’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases for not joining in international efforts to combat global warming. “To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say […]