Articles by Grist staff

The Sound and the Flurry

The Clinton administration is preparing to implement a flurry of controversial regulations on environmental and other issues before a new president moves into the White House on 20 Jan. The U.S. EPA alone is said to be considering more than 60 new regulations, including ones to restrict or ban the use of certain pesticides and […]

Banks for the Memories

Prince Charles yesterday opened the Millennium Seed Bank, which is intended to protect more than 24,000 plant species around the world from extinction. The $114 million seed bank in southern England — the largest such effort so far — will store millions of seeds in underground bomb-proof, flood-proof vaults, and house specimens of more than […]

If They Could Just Harness All That Hot Air …

While government representatives in The Hague quibble over ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Germans are making some real progress in adopting clean energy. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, home to 2.8 million people and numerous heavy industries, about 19 percent of the electricity is generated by wind, and in some areas of the […]

Bye, Buy!

Sit out the shopping frenzy this Friday and celebrate Buy Nothing Day, an inspired idea from the Adbusters Media Foundation in Vancouver, B.C. The day after Thanksgiving marks the start of an annual consumer rampage, but you’ll have more fun, create less waste, and save moola if you stay home and finish off the pumpkin […]