Mostly I like the clever headlines and the angle of the articles. In fact, I have an RSS feed for Grist in my not-for-profit online magazine Wildflower Stew http://wildflowerstew.org/mag but I definitely feel that the reference to peyote in the "party time" context is just awful. Thousands of people in the Native American Church consider peyote a sacred substance which is used for communion with the Creator. Whether you share that view or not, it is pretty disrespectful to refer to it as a recreational drug. If you want to address the subject of peyote, then by all means do so, but please don't casually refer to it as if it were on the same level as ecstacy or something. That is incorrect and unnecessarily insulting to some of your readers.

As this is a conference on climate, I would like to share the good news that this will also be a carbon neutral conference and will be as green as possible: http://www.montreal2005.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=FF232EA3-1

Here in NOLA, advocates are working to increase attention to global warming impacts as the city plans its rebirth.  To draw attention to Montreal, we're planning a "Save New Orleans - Stop Global Warming" bar crawl on Dec. 3rd.

This deadly, destructive, hurricane season MUST be a teachable moment for global warming - and if New Orleans can't figure it out heaven help us all.

The groups that are back on the ground in New Orleans making the bar crawl happen are:
The Alliance for Affordable Energy
and
 the Sierra Club

Hello, there seems to be a dynamic community critical of the emissions trading approach to address global warming.  These critics are holding various events during the Montreal meeting.

Here are a few links to relevant websites of the critics.
http://climatejustice.blogspot.com/
http://www.tni.org/ctw/

At the below link you can find an article "Kyoto Credits System Aids the Rich, Some Say" from the Washington Post where the criticism of trading emissions credits is examined.  
http://www.seen.org/pages/media/20050312_washpost_kyoto.shtml

I realize this goes against the grain of many NGOs, corporations, governments, and other bodies, but seems like it deserves to be given attention to, especially at Grist.org.  Perhaps good to recollect that Ken Lay and Enron were big fans of emissions trading from which it was hoped Enron would make billions from handling of the trades in credits.  Imagine if the Enron-favored approach to global warming turns out to be as much a house of cards as Enron's business model turned out to be, then we are definitely f***.