Articles by Grist staff

A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands

Plans are underway to create a huge urban park in New Jersey that would be 10 times the size of New York City’s Central Park — on land now pocked by old garbage dumps and sewage sites. Unofficially dubbed the Meadowlands Preserve, the new park would encompass 8,400 acres of wetlands and green space, and […]

They Otter Be Proud

The English otter, a beloved mammal once thought to have all but disappeared from the nation’s waterways, is staging an impressive comeback. Otters can now be found in nearly 35 percent of England’s rivers and wetlands, a five-fold increase over numbers from 25 years ago, according to survey results released by the government yesterday. Otter […]

Charlotte Brody, Health Care Without Harm

Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse, is a founder and executive director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of 416 organizations in 44 countries working to make health care more environmentally responsible and sustainable. Monday, 12 May 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. A sunny, breezy morning. So I walked across Washington instead of taking the Metro. […]

Can You Recycle Me Now?

Cell phone users now have a way to recycle their old phones and support the Sierra Club in the process. About a million mobile phones are tossed out each week in the U.S. as consumers upgrade or switch to different phone service providers, and those old phones leak a bunch of toxic substances, including mercury, […]