Articles by Grist staff

Let's Hope It's Not Oil-Slick Willy

President Clinton said yesterday that he will announce steps soon to deal with the rising costs of gasoline and oil. Enviros hope he’ll refuse to consider the environmentally damaging options being bandied about, which include removing the moratorium on offshore oil drilling and opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. Columnist Charles Krauthammer […]

Make Mine Manure-Covered

Re: Food for Thought Dear Editor: As a fan of organic produce and a local newspaper editor, I appreciated Donella Meadows’s article. She does a great job of rounding up and then refuting the stale critique of organic produce offered by Dennis Avery and his ilk. We need more articles like this in the mainstream […]

Better Homes and Gardens

Mary Cordaro has made a career out of what she learned trying to cope with her chemical sensitivities and allergies, starting a green design business that helps people make healthy homes free of harmful chemicals, lead, dust, and mildew. Cordaro has painstakingly sought out natural furnishings, paints, and building materials that her clients can use, […]

Put Him in the Stocks

Vice President Al Gore said this week that he will not divest himself of stock in Occidental Petroleum, despite the company’s controversial plans to drill for oil in the Colombian Amazon on ancestral land of the U’wa indigenous tribe. The U’wa fear the drilling will devastate land that they consider sacred, and last month hundreds […]