Articles by Grist staff

The Great Thrall of China

China Is Chasing Down More Energy — Lots of It We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: One of the biggest and most underreported environmental stories today is the rapid, massive industrial development taking place in China. The nation is expected to have double-digit GDP growth in coming years. Already, widespread power brownouts […]

Mary Sullivan sends dispatches from the Democratic National Convention

Mary Sullivan is one of 22 Vermont delegates to the Democratic National Convention, and one of nine state delegates originally pledged to former Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean. She was a 10-year member of the Vermont House of Representatives and chair of its natural resources committee. In the 1980s, she wrote for The Washington Post. […]

California Greenin’

Poll Shows Californians as Green as Ever California has long been ahead of the curve on environmental policy, and a new poll points to the reason: Citizens demand it. A poll released this week by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, based on more than 2,500 responses from speakers of five different languages, reveals […]

Whale Supplies Last

Anti-Whaling Countries Beat Back Pro-Whaling Plan Staunchly anti-whaling nations, led by Australia and New Zealand, scored a small victory yesterday at the conclusion of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, staving off plans for a vote next year that could have opened the door for lifting the 18-year-old ban on commercial whaling. Pro-whaling […]