Articles by Grist staff

Bookies make Al Gore the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and bookmakers are giving Al Gore the best odds of winning. Think he’ll actually bag the prize? Vote in our poll on the Grist homepage.

Images of a sustainable-food revolution

Imagine a place where residents pull together to create a thriving store and restaurant serving fresh, local food. Imagine a place where the money appears, the dreams become real, the produce and pastured meat taste like home. Imagine a place where officials support these dreams with policies that fund organic farmers and encourage the purchase […]

Find a ride to our reader party!

Heard the hype about Grist’s hometown throw-down and purchased your ticket, but haven’t quite figured out what to wear how you’re gettin’ there? You’re not alone. Grist reader Diana from Olympia, Wash., wrote to us asking if anyone else from her area might be carpooling, and we thought to ourselves: selves, might there be others […]

Anti-bottled-water campaign kicks off in cities across U.S.

A Think Outside the Bottle campaign kicked off today, urging municipal governments to cut off bottled-water contracts and to press for greater disclosure of the source of bottled H2O. The campaign is spearheaded by Corporate Accountability International and joined by cities including Boston, Minneapolis, Sacramento, and Portland, Ore., many of which held taste tests today […]