Articles by Grist staff

You Say It's Your Earth Day — It's My Earth Day Too, Yeah

Millions of people in 183 countries celebrated the 30th anniversary of Earth Day on Saturday, with rallies, marches, demonstrations, car-free days, and fairs, many of them focused on the theme of clean energy and global warming. At the flagship Earth Day event in Washington, D.C., hundreds of thousands came out to hear speeches from politicians, […]

Business as Unusual

Student environmental activists are turning their attention anew to corporations, trying to cajole or shame them into changing their practices for the benefit of the planet. Last month, Yale student Glenn Hurowitz staged a demonstration at BP Amoco’s New York offices and delivered a stack of resumes from business and engineering students who had pledged […]

We Doesn't Get It

Pollution and other environmental factors may be threatening the intelligence of millions of people around the world, according to a new research review conducted by Chris Williams of London University. Environmental problems that can lead to lower IQs include lead, PCBs, and radiation. Epidemiologists have detected an increase in the number of children born with […]

It's All the Brady Bunch's Fault

In a move that is rattling the tourist industry in Hawaii and beyond, the Sierra Club filed suit in January against the Hawaii Tourist Authority, seeking to force the state agency to perform a statewide environmental assessment before launching an aggressive marketing plan aimed at luring more visitors to the islands. “Seven million tourists descend […]