Articles by Grist staff

Bill Sheehan, GrassRoots Recycling Network

Bill Sheehan (pictured here with daughter Fiona) is network coordinator for the GrassRoots Recycling Network in Athens, Ga. Sunday, 19 Mar 2000 ATHENS, Ga. Woken up at 6:30 a.m. by my bouncy nine-year-old daughter, Fiona, who had been woken by her kitten. Sky gray, temperature cool — more like late winter than any weather in […]

In a Minor Key

Government officials in the Florida Keys have passed a resolution recognizing that climate change is likely to threaten the islands’ beaches and reefs, bring more hurricanes and storms, and harm the region’s tourist-based economy. The Keys’ Monroe Board of County Commissioners has also begun to work with the Alliance of Small Island States, which has […]

The Naked Truth

Nude protestors crashed the opening session of an international water conference underway today at the Hague, Netherlands. The inaugural speaker, Egyptian water resources minister Mahmoud Abu Zeid, looked on in stunned silence as a man and woman climbed up on stage in front of him, disrobed, and revealed to the audience their backs and buttocks, […]

Green and Bear It

Six major timber companies in British Columbia are working toward an agreement with enviro groups under which the companies would stay out of certain pristine tracts in the Great Bear Rainforest for the next 18 months if the enviros stopped urging customers to boycott the companies’ products. The two sides, which have long been locked […]