Articles by Grist staff

How to green your Halloween

The economy may have gone to pot and the country’s future leadership may be wildly unclear, but there’s one thing we can count on: Halloween. Yes, October 31 is a holiday of certainty, full of ringing doorbells, sweet treats, and tiny ghosts and witches (or, more likely, Kung Fu Pandas and Hannah Montanas). But All […]

Cote d’Ivoire’s West African chimp population drops off dramatically

The population of West African chimpanzees in Cote d’Ivoire has declined 90 percent in the last 18 years, according to a new study published in Current Biology. In the 1960s, the West African country was home to about 100,000 of the apes; in 1989-1990, scientists counted 8,000 to 12,000, which they estimated to be half […]

Snippets from the news

• Northern Rockies wolves back on endangered list. • Could new technology make household lights obsolete? • Nestle throws fit about Florida tap-water ad. • Can green jobs save us? • Which marathon is the greenest? • Australia will go ahead with carbon trading despite financial crisis. • Suffragettes protest in the U.K.

Joseph Romm’s critique of EDF’s contest is misguided

This post was originally published on Environmental Economics. —– Joe Romm’s analysis is mostly spot on — and if a post starts like this, you already know what comes next. This time he responds to a $10,000 contest organized by EDF (yep, my employer) that asks for submissions to help explain: “What is a carbon […]