Articles by Grist staff

A Last Encounter With Al Gore?

During a final 30-hour, five-state campaign tour, Al Gore appealed yesterday to enviros and other supporters of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader to join the "main" contest and vote for Gore over George W. Bush. Speaking on a syndicated radio show, Gore said, "I don’t like the argument that a vote for Nader is a […]

Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil

Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Monday, 6 Nov 2000 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil At IDEAAS, the Brazilian NGO that I started, we are working in […]

Congregatulations!

A growing number of religious leaders are getting active in environmental issues, urging their congregations to be good stewards of the earth. This fall, leaders in 16 states have joined an interfaith effort aimed at educating people about climate change. Last year, a group of “Redwood Rabbis” fought to save old-growth trees in California’s Headwaters […]

For Goodness Hake

Cod and western hake stocks in the North Sea are so low that the European Union may ban catches in much of the sea this year, predicts the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a British conservation group. Cod stocks have plummeted so dramatically in the past 20 years that they are now […]