Articles by Grist staff

Anthony Flaccavento, Appalachian Sustainable Development

Anthony Flaccavento is the executive director of Appalachian Sustainable Development, a nonprofit dedicated to developing healthy, diverse, and ecologically sound economic opportunities in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Monday, 4 Nov 2002 ABINGDON, Va. Early Monday morning, at the onset of November. A cup of strong coffee and a to-do list start this day off, […]

Emission: Very, Very Possible

After two days and a night of negotiations at a climate change conference in New Delhi, India, developing countries left with a victory on Friday: The final wording of the main document coming out the meeting did not require the countries to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions at any point in the future. […]

Eye Spy

In an effort to catch environmental violators with their pants down, a deep-pocketed environmentalist armed with a digital camera and a helicopter is snapping photos of every inch of California’s 1,100-mile coast and posting them on the Internet. The two-week-old website will eventually contain about 13,000 images, all taken in 2002 by Ken Adelman with […]

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow, but Not Fonder

The Bush administration indicated last week that it might withdraw its support from a landmark international agreement on population over concerns that it promotes abortion. At a U.N. meeting last Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, U.S. State Department official Louise Oliver said the 1994 Cairo accord included terms such as “reproductive services” and “reproductive health care” […]