Articles by Grist staff

Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Mark Ritchie is president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, based in Minneapolis, Minn., which works to keep family farmers on the land. He also serves as national co-chair of Sustainable America and director of the International Forum on Food and Agriculture, and is on the boards of Mothers and Others, Libraries for […]

Forest Gumption

Ever eager to leave a green legacy, Pres. Clinton will announce an initiative next week to protect up to 40 million acres of national forest land in 35 states from commercial development. The directive will ask the U.S. Forest Service to analyze how best to protect forest land that is still undeveloped and roadless, much […]

Forest Gunk

Europe’s forests are sick and getting sicker, according to a new report released yesterday by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe and the European Commission. The comprehensive analysis found that only 35 percent of the continent’s trees are “healthy,” about 40 percent are in a “warning stage,” and about 25 percent are “damaged,” meaning they […]

Bush Whacked

Vice Pres. Al Gore accused GOP presidential frontrunner Gov. George W. Bush yesterday of letting Texas become the most polluted state in the nation, number one in toxic releases into the air, water, and soil, according to EPA numbers, and home to Houston, the city with the worst smog in the country. A Bush spokesperson […]