Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Whassup? … True, True

More than a dozen environmental groups sued the federal government yesterday, saying its plan to manage hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest fails to provide adequate protections for salmon. Todd True, an attorney with the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, said, “We have a lot of ways to meet our energy […]

Think Globally, Log Locally

The Bush administration said last night that it will let stand President Clinton’s rule to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 millions acres of national forestland. Sort of. It seems the White House intends to give local officials (the folks who don’t like the rule) the power to modify the ban on a case-by-case basis […]

10 ways to phatten up environmentalism

Dear Editor: Good idea about sexying the magazine up, in terms of sexyness. I agree that this environmental stuff needs to be more “now” — just this a.m., my 15-year-old daughter saw me recycling a few back issues of Recycling and said, “You’re a pathetic little man and you don’t even know what emo music […]