Articles by Grist staff

One Final Squeeze

Last Chance to Take Part in the Grist Grapefruit Challenge It’s the very last day of the 2003 Grist Grapefruit Challenge — mere hours left for us five Grist staffers to subsist only on grapefruit, and mere hours left for Grist readers to contribute toward our goal of raising $35,000 to help hire an additional […]

Green Eye for a Great Buy

Demand Rises for Recycled and Organic Home Products The hot gift this holiday season (in our humble, green-leaning opinion): anything recycled or organic. Demand for home products made from recycled or organic materials grew by 66 percent in 2001 and continues to rise, according to research conducted by New Hope Natural Media in Boulder, Colo. […]

Coming Clean

Strange Bedfellows Push for Clean Energy in Canada Some of the biggest polluters in Canada are teaming up with enviros to make the case that the nation could produce as much energy from renewable sources as it now does from fossil fuels and nuclear facilities. Today, three oil companies — Suncor Energy, BP Canada, and […]

Bicycles Shanghaied

Shanghai Bans Bicycles from Major Streets Shanghai, China, whose streets once teemed with peddling people, will ban bicycles from most major thoroughfares beginning next year. It’s a dramatic (and, many say, depressing) shift for a city that was home to some of the nation’s earliest bicycle factories. Now, Shanghai has become a center of China’s […]