Articles by Grist staff

Didn't They Ever Read the Cherry Orchard?

Russian enviros are concerned that President Vladimir Putin is sacrificing environmental protection in pursuit of economic growth. Their biggest complaint is that Putin transferred the powers of the State Committee on Environmental Protection, the country’s equivalent of the U.S. EPA, to the Ministry of Natural Resources, whose role up to now has been to authorize […]

Lactose Tolerant

Stonyfield Farm Inc., a New Hampshire-based yogurt company, is launching a new national print ad campaign that aims to promote environmental and social causes as well as its own cultured dairy products. Gary Hirschberg, president and chief executive of Stonyfield Farm, calls the campaign concept “ad-tivism,” a combination of advertising and activism. The new ads […]

Arsenal and Old Laws

The U.S. government’s reliance in the 1940s and 1950s on a large network of private plants, mills, and shops to build the country’s first nuclear arsenal led to huge environmental problems and major health consequences, concludes a USA Today investigation. The government knew that the hundreds of contractors were ill-prepared for the hazards of handling […]

Kelpie Wilson, Siskiyou Regional Education Project

Kelpie Wilson is executive director of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, a grassroots network formed to protect the wild forests and rivers of the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion in northwest California and southwest Oregon. Tuesday, 5 Sep 2000 CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. Well, Grist readers, you have caught me, and the Siskiyou Project, right in the midst of […]