Articles by Grist staff

Emily Gertz sends a dispatch from a summit on climate change and investing

Emily Gertz is a regular contributor to WorldChanging.com, and an internet content and strategy consultant for nonprofits. She has written on environmental policy for BushGreenwatch, and on the intersections of environment, culture, art, and activism for The Bear Deluxe and other independent alternative publications. Wednesday, 11 May 2005 NEW YORK, N.Y. Yesterday, nearly 400 people […]

Art for … Well, Not Really for Art’s Sake

Send Grist cool posters! The Grist office walls are looking sadly barren these days (with the exception of a certain unnamed but smitten editor’s life-size Barack Obama poster), and we’re so darn busy bringing you the best green news on the world wide interweb that we don’t have time to hunt down handsome wall decor. […]

Onward Christine Soldier

Washington gov signs groundbreaking renewable-energy legislation Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) has signed into law two bills that some are calling the most progressive renewable-energy legislation in any U.S. state. The measures earned bipartisan support thanks to their focus on creating a renewables market that would generate jobs and boost the state’s economy. One bill […]

Where There’s a Shill, There’s a Way

USDA pays freelance writer to tout Farm Bill’s green cred In an effort to manufacture some green credibility, an Agriculture Department agency hired a freelance “journalist” to produce five articles on the conservation benefits of its Farm Bill programs. Paid at least $7,500 for his work, freelancer Dave Smith was instructed to push his stories […]