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Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer questions

Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine. Q. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? A. We are co-directors of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. Q. What does your organization do? A. […]

You Know the Drill

Bush administration wants to drill here, there, and everywhere This week, the Interior Department announced a five-year plan that would open 48 million acres of ocean to oil and gas […]

Where There’s a Way, There’s a Will

Third IPCC report says world can afford climate solutions The third installment of the IPCC climate assessment is out, and the news is bad-good: it’s going to take a lot […]

Ways of Bee-ing

Are organic bees faring better than their industrial counterparts? As news emerges about the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world, one reader wonders: are organic bees doing any better […]

Haste Makes Waste

Savor your flavors with the slow-food movement You could say Carlo Petrini is a prophet of sorts. More than 20 years ago, the Italian gastronome and conservationist observed the decline […]

This week

Yeargh! This week sucks. We’re having a whole series of planning/strategy meetings at Grist, which have eaten all my blogging time. There’s a conference on ethics and climate change starting […]

And Maybe We’ll Finally Clean Out That Closet

Daily Grist taking day off tomorrow, back on Thursday You know how, after you’ve been working for months on end, you get a hankering for a day off? You’re not […]

Let My River Go

Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands Painfully aware that their state is sinking, Louisiana politicians are pushing a $50 billion plan to fight wetlands erosion by […]

Are We Having Fund Yet?

Neglect, underfunding cause Superfund cleanups to dwindle Twenty-seven years ago, Love Canal prompted the feds to invest resources in cleaning up America’s most toxic sites and start shaking down the […]

Face Offset

A campus organizer takes a critical look at going carbon neutral These days, college is about more than keg stands and beer pong: students all over the country are taking […]