Articles by Grist staff

Readers talk back about eco-friendly cities, eco-friendly clothes, and more

  Re: City City Bang Bang Dear Editor: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels definitely deserves props for pulling cities together in common cause to achieve the Kyoto Protocol. However, Nickels has a huge blind spot in his own city: actually reducing production of greenhouse gases. His investment in highways is taking Seattle in the opposite direction. […]

The Spirit is Willing, But the Fest is (Two) Weeks

Grist staff takes semiannual, semi-deserved break; readers mourn While most of you have already trundled out the grill and scooped the beetles out of your pool, Grist staffers haven’t yet tasted summer. In fact, we’ve been perched on stools at the pun assembly line for the last six months — and our backs are starting […]

A Shot Across the Mao

State-controlled Chinese oil company makes big bid for America’s Unocal China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a state-controlled Chinese oil company, is making an $18.5 billion bid to take over California-based oil and gas firm Unocal, which has extensive Asian operations. Rival bidder Chevron warns that China will have the power to raise energy prices […]

My Own Private Saudi Arabia

Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale “We can safely say of our future with regard to oil and gas, it has yet to see its brightest days,” said Rep. James Gibbons (R-Nev.) in a House subcommittee meeting yesterday. We know what you’re thinking: What the … ? […]