Articles by Grist staff

Kiss and Telecommute

This Friday will be the first National Work at Home Day, aimed at encouraging employees to give telecommuting a try, for the sake of the planet and their own productivity. About 19.6 million Americans telecommuted to work in 1999, up from 4 million in 1990, and that number will continue to grow as technology and […]

'Night, Rider

In a victory for the Clinton administration, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected an effort yesterday to block the president from designating more national monuments. By a 50 to 49 vote, the Senate defeated a budget bill rider proposed by Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) that would have required the White House to get congressional approval for […]

Gold Medal for Green Mettle

The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, which will begin on Sept. 15, are expected to be the greenest ever. Most of the events will take place in Homebush Bay, once the polluted site of a slaughterhouse but now transformed by a big environmental cleanup. The Olympic Village, where 15,000 athletes and officials will live […]

Roadless to Utopia

A group of enviros from around the U.S. descended on Salt Lake City yesterday to deliver to the U.S. Forest Service 700,000 comments supporting a Clinton administration plan to ban road-building on 40 million acres of roadless national forest land. Enviros also called for the plan to be strengthened by explicitly prohibiting helicopter logging, mining, […]