Articles by Grist staff

Give a Hoot, Let Us Pollute

Foreign and trade ministers from several developing countries, led by Malaysia, are pushing for the world’s industrialized nations to give up their requests that environmental and labor standards be made part of international trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization. At a meeting in Brunei of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the developing nations are […]

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 […]

For the Crater Good

While George W. Bush and Al Gore continued to duke it out over the White House, President Clinton exercised his executive authority yesterday by creating a new national monument in northern Arizona and substantially expanding one in central Idaho. The Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona — 293,000 acres near the Colorado River north of […]

The Green-ch Who Stole Christmas?

Some enviros and others who voted for Ralph Nader are now regretting their choice, fearing that it gave George W. Bush an advantage over Al Gore. In the chat room on Nader’s official website, John Ruth, who said he voted for Nader, wrote this to the Green Party candidate yesterday: “Mr. Gore (despite what you […]