Articles by Grist staff

Michelle Long, Transparency Center

Michelle Long recently cofounded the Transparency Center, a nonprofit organization focused on facilitating transparent, stakeholder-inclusive models of trade. Sunday, 6 May 2001 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Hello. Welcome to my world and my work. Opening my day to all of you presents an interesting opportunity — and also a challenge. In the challenge of reducing what […]

Prez and the New Power Generation

President Bush launched a two-week campaign yesterday to prepare the country for the recommendations of the secretive White House energy task force. Bush said, “What people need to hear loud and clear is that we’re running out of energy in America.” Building on a comment made by Vice President Cheney earlier this week that conservation […]

Birdland?

Some of the most popular songbirds in the U.K. are being sighted much less frequently, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said yesterday. A survey carried out by the group’s members found that the numbers of starlings and house sparrows have halved in the last 10 years. The group blamed the problem on […]

The 2 Percent Solution

Ford said yesterday that a team of top executives would begin looking at ways to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions. Ford’s second-annual corporate citizenship report estimated that its vehicles and factories contribute about 2 percent of all such emissions caused by people. Still, Ford said it did not support the Kyoto treaty on climate […]