Articles by Grist staff

Wood Finnishing

Sustainable logging can prove more profitable than traditional logging, according to two reports released by the World Wildlife Fund. One report compares the performance of four Swedish forestry companies that had obtained certification from the Forest Stewardship Council, which promotes sustainable forest management, to the performance of four similar Finnish companies that had not. The […]

Dead in the Water

Scientists fear that an ecological disaster may be unfolding off the coast of North Carolina, following in the wake of Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd, which dumped some three feet of rain on the eastern third of the state in September. Flooding from the hurricanes washed loads of pollution and organic matter out to sea — […]

God Help Us

A coalition of loggers in Minnesota is pursuing a novel legal strategy to open up national forests for timber cutting, claiming in a lawsuit filed last month that the U.S. Forest Service is foisting the “religion” of the Deep Ecology movement on all Americans by adopting it as a guiding principle for forest management. The […]

A Model Environmentalist

In the top news of the presidential race, ex-supermodel Christie Brinkley has thrown her support behind Al Gore, saying his “leadership on environmental issues has been inspirational.” Also, the Sierra Club today will begin running TV and radio “issue ads” in New Hampshire slamming Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) for his environmental record. The […]