Articles by Grist staff

I Believe in Yesterday!

While President Bush and former Vice President Al Gore spent Earth Day talking up the environment and taking jabs at each other, how was the rest of the world celebrating the occasion? In Indonesia, environmentalists blocked traffic and planted trees; in Thailand, some 15,000 Buddhists prayed for the Earth; in the Philippines, cyclists filled streets […]

Wen Bo, Global Greengrants China

Wen Bo is chair of the China Advisory Board of the Global Greengrants Fund. Monday, 22 Apr 2002 SEOUL, South Korea Korea has always drawn me like a magnet, so this year, I chose to come to Seoul to take part in the Korean Earth Day celebrations. Arriving at Gwanghwamun on Sunday morning, I saw […]

Mr. Watson, Come Here, I Don’t Want You

Robert Watson, one of the most outspoken and respected voices in the debate over global warming, was voted out of his position as chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday. IPCC member nations rejected Watson in favor of India’s Rajendra Pachauri, an engineer and economist as well as one of the […]

Sharri Baby

After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on protecting the environment. The network, […]