Articles by Grist staff

Sustainable food and ag folks offer their elevator pitches for Obama

We asked a number of leaders in sustainable food and agriculture to imagine they found themselves in an elevator with the president-elect — giving them one minute of his undivided attention. Here are their messages to Obama about how he should approach environment, energy, climate, and food policy. (For more perspectives, check out Part 1, […]

E.U. greenhouse-gas goal will be tough to meet, says IEA

A European Union goal to keep global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius will be, um, hard to do, says the International Energy Agency. “The scale of the challenge … is immense,” says a report to be published next week. “The technology shift, if achievable, would certainly be unprecedented in scale and speed […]

GM will keep investing in electric-car R&D

Even as it strives to cut costs and keep its head above water, General Motors will push forward with investment in electric vehicles, according to ever-elusive “sources with knowledge of the plan.”

We already have 750,000 green jobs and the potential for ample green investments

This post was originally published at the NRDC blog, Switchboard, before the presidential election. —– You can’t miss the fact that both Time and Newsweek chose the week of the presidential election to run pieces on how the economic downturn will affect efforts to solve global warming. Yes, most eyes are on the election through […]