Articles by Grist staff

Virtuous Cycle

It’s Bike-to-Work Week! Put down the car keys and hop on the ten-speed: It’s national Bike to Work week! According to the Census Bureau, 99.7 percent of Americans burn gasoline on their way to work, so yes, we’re talking to you. As to the potential benefits, we turn over the mike to cycling enthusiast Julius […]

Readers sound off on capitalism, bottled water, and, yet again, the Sierra Club election

  From the Hawken’s Mouth Re: From Here to Economy Dear Editor: I think Stan Cox’s piece is wonderful and I am glad to see it published. Entropy and thermodynamics are consistently excised from mainstream economics and it is good to see them re-injected. Nevertheless, the author has made a rather odd and unusual error […]

Escape Notice

Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations Demand for gas-electric hybrid vehicles has automakers scrambling to keep up. Ford’s new Escape hybrid SUV won’t go on sale until August, but already 30,000 people have expressed the desire to buy one via Ford’s website, whereas the company had planned to sell just 20,000 a year. Meanwhile, waiting lists […]

What Can Brown Do for You?

Cow Poop Powers California Dairy A well-fed dairy cow produces 120 pounds of poop a day — some 43,000 pounds a year. What to do with all that doo? Dairy farmer Albert Straus of Marin County, Calif., puts it in a big covered lagoon, where it decomposes and generates tons of methane gas, which he […]