Articles by Grist staff

Following Conventions

Many environmentalists and other activists who caused a ruckus during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle late last year are planning to descend on Los Angeles next week to demonstrate during the Democratic National Convention. While some protestors strutted their stuff outside last week’s Republican National Convention, many progressive groups intend to raise a […]

Log On

Some citizens in the small logging town of Forks, Wash., are hoping to make it a high-tech haven and a model for rural communities around the world. In the past, the livelihoods of the town’s 3,460 residents revolved around logging the nearby old-growth forests, but over-cutting by logging companies and regulations like those that protect […]

Zed, last of his species, in "A New Wrinkle"

Beach Scums

The number of U.S. beach closings and advisories caused by pollution rose by 50 percent from 1997 to 1999, according to the latest annual beach quality report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Last year there were 6,160 beach closings throughout the country, more than half of them in California and most of them caused […]