Articles by Grist staff

Tell a Commuter

Once touted as a solution to traffic congestion problems in the U.S., telecommuting has largely been a no-show. A decade ago, the federal government predicted that as much as 10.4 percent of the population would be telecommuting several days a week by 2000. But telecommuting hasn’t even topped 1 percent in some of the country’s […]

Hard of Huron

Michigan natural resources officials voted on Friday to lift a four-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling beneath Lakes Huron and Michigan. Supporters said the lake-bottom deposits would boost energy supplies in the U.S. while bringing the state royalty money that could be used to purchase public land. Critics said the risks of the drilling […]

Pampas and Circumstances

More than 1,500 farmers now plant 7 million acres of organic crops a year in Argentina, up from 220 farmers and 13,000 acres in 1995. For the most part, people in Argentina haven’t developed a taste for the stuff — 90 percent of the country’s organic crops are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Europe. […]

Trevor Hare, Sky Island Alliance

Trevor Hare is the field coordinator for Sky Island Alliance, a group dedicated to protecting biodiversity in the sky island mountain ranges of the southwestern United States. Monday, 17 Sep 2001 TUSCON, Ariz. It’s hard going back into the office after spending a gorgeous Sunday wildlife tracking in the southeastern Arizona desert grasslands of the […]