Articles by Grist staff

Faith-Based Initiative

Religious leaders make the environment a “values issue” More than 1,000 Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders from some 35 states have signed and begun circulating a statement opposing President Bush’s environmental policies. And evangelicals aren’t far behind, having drawn up an “Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility” that emphasizes Christians’ duty to care for the […]

Old MacDonald Had a Conniption

Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren’t cheap. President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that […]

If Any Man Eat of This Bread, He Shall Live Pesticide-Free

Church of England going green The Church of England has joined the battle against global warming. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will unveil his green vision for the church and begin discussion on the issue of climate change during a General Synod meeting scheduled for Feb. 17, the day after the Kyoto Protocol goes into […]

The God of Small Savings

Ex-millionaire surrounded by trees, little else Former real-estate mogul Xing Yiqian is well-known on the Chinese island of Hainan for his dedicated conservation of the area’s dense rainforest. Called the “tree god” by locals, Xing spent his fortune — once valued at $24 million — paying individual landowners not to cut down their trees, financing […]