Articles by Grist staff

Southern Discomfort

Some days the smog in the Great Smoky Mountains, the country’s most-visited national park, is worse than the pollution in Atlanta. As the South’s population has soared, the region has become home to more cars and SUVs and the demand for coal-fired energy to power amenities like air conditioning has skyrocketed. The governors of Tennessee […]

First, Do No Warm

Climate change could bring with it a wide variety of health problems, according to a study of possible effects in Washington state, released today by Physicians for Social Responsibility. For example, higher temperatures could increase concentrations of ground-level ozone and other air pollutants, aggravating asthma cases, and expand the habitat of ticks that carry Lyme […]

Danny Kennedy, Project Underground

Danny Kennedy is the director of Project Underground, a Berkeley-based human rights and environmental organization which he helped to found in 1996. He is also a husband and a happy new father of a beautiful, bouncing baby girl. Monday, 17 Jul 2000 BERKELEY, Calif. Monday is a day I look forward to, not because I […]

The Father, the Sun, and the Holy Spirit

A number of churches and city governments in California and other spots around the U.S. are leading the push for clean energy by powering their houses of worship and city halls with solar, wind, and other renewable sources. Twenty-five Episcopal churches in California have switched to green power, as have Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant groups […]