Articles by Grist staff

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Jerk

An environmentalist takes “enviroliberalism” to task, gets yelled at Jeremy Carl, a longtime environmentalist now working on sustainability issues in India, thinks that environmentalism should look in the mirror to find the source of its troubles. The problem, he says, is the dominance of “enviroliberalism,” a parochial sort of green thinking that ignores international issues […]

Beyond Blunderdome

Secret plan would put U.K. nuke waste in “interim” domes for 1,000 years The U.K.’s government-owned British Nuclear Fuels has developed an innovative solution to the nuclear-waste problem: procrastinate! The company wants to dump waste from nuclear power plants into giant domes designed to last up to 1,000 years — at which point, presumably, future […]

The Rapture of Capture

Brits want to store carbon dioxide under North Sea The British government announced today that it will invest about $45 million in technology to capture carbon dioxide and store it under the North Sea — part of a $72 million commitment to combat global warming via energy efficiency, renewables, and new technologies. Keeping CO2 out […]

Amending Fences

Energy bill goes to Senate floor amidst bipartisan hopes With the public up in arms about gas prices and President Bush breathing down its neck, today the Senate begins consideration — again — of the Moby Dick of modern-day politics: the energy bill. The House already passed a version, attacked by greens and fiscal conservatives […]