Articles by Grist staff

David Dobbs, New England environmental author

David Dobbs writes about the environment, community, and science from his home in Vermont. A contributor to Audubon, Sierra, Vermont Life, Popular Science, and other magazines, he is co-author of The Northern Forest and is now writing a book on the New England fishery, to be published next year. Sunday, 9 May 1999 MONTPELIER, Vt. […]

Will the military protect the West's last best place?

As parks and forests in the West get overrun by tourists who love too much, the millions of acres controlled by the Department of Defense are suddenly looking sexier. In the Sonoran desert, for example, the last best place is a bombing range. It is a sign of the times that the 2.7 million-acre Barry […]

Eco-Visionaries or Survivalist Kooks? You Decide

Solar power companies around the U.S. are getting a boost in sales from people who fear the impact of the Y2K problem. Some speculate that the millennium bug will cause massive failures in the nation’s power grid, though electric companies claim they have the situation under control. In another Y2K-related development, the French Institute of […]

Don't Keep on Truckin'

The feds may make a fundamental shift in the way they regulate air pollution from factories by starting to consider the exhaust from truck traffic in and out of industrial sites as part of a factory’s pollution. The EPA won’t make a final decision until this fall about the proposed rules, which would make it […]