Articles by Grist staff

We Take Our Coffee Green

Central American coffee industry rebounds by going green A global surplus of coffee five years ago sent the Central American coffee industry into a tailspin, but it is gradually recovering by focusing on high-quality beans — which in many cases means organically grown. In that rarest of things, a genuine win-win situation, the industry is […]

The Hansen Bothers

More climate scientists come out against Bush Andrew Revkin of The New York Times has written what may be the definitive account of the battle over science politicization in and around the Bush administration. The broad outlines are familiar — the science community is more politically mobilized than it has been in decades, outraged at […]

Green Dawn

Activists work to form Green Party in Russia A group of environmental activists and scientists is seeking to create a Green political party in Russia, expressing high hopes despite considerable hurdles. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia’s environmental situation has gone from bad to worse. Environmental standards are among the world’s lowest, the […]

Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment

Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress — passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House — has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. “We’re well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that […]