Articles by Grist staff

The British Are Coming Around

The British government announced yesterday that it will set new recycling requirements, hoping to turn around what Environment Minister Michael Meacher called the nation’s “pathetic” recycling rate. In England and Wales, people recycle just 8 percent of their household waste, compared to 45 percent in the Netherlands and 52 percent in Switzerland. Local authorities in […]

To Protect and Surf

President Clinton will unveil a system today to create “marine protected areas” in sensitive ocean waters, comparable to creating parks or wilderness areas on land. Offshore oil drilling, mining, dumping, fishing, and other activities could be banned in the protected areas, which will be designated by the Commerce and Interior departments. Specifically, Clinton will call […]

What, Snarl Traffic in L.A.? Impossible!

A number of environmentalists plan to join other activists in Los Angeles this August in hopes of disrupting the Democratic National Convention. Inspired by the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle last year and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund protests in Washington, D.C., last month, demonstrators intend to march, tie up traffic, make […]

Off-Road Hogs

Off-road vehicles (ORVs) pose the fastest growing threat to America’s wild areas and should be banned from federal lands, the Wilderness Society says in a report released yesterday. The report lists the 15 most endangered wildlands in the U.S., many of which the group says are threatened by ORVs as well as by logging, mining, […]