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  • Scrambled Egg Labels

    With few federal rules in place, many eco-labels and related markers placed on food in the U.S. are meaningless or confusing, says Consumers Union. For example, because the U.S. Agriculture Department doesn’t have standards for free-range eggs, no one checks up on whether the chickens producing such eggs really have the run of the farm. […]

    Grist staff Food

  • Sonic Bust

    The emissions from Boeing’s new high-speed plane, the Sonic Cruiser, may pose a direct threat to the ozone layer. Two years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 1,000 supersonic aircraft flying in the stratosphere would thin the ozone layer by about 1 percent a year. Boeing expects to sell, gulp, several […]

    Grist staff Cities

  • Kathleen Whitley, Sustainable Energy Alliance of Long Island

    Kathleen Whitley, a Long Island native, is program manager of the Sustainable Energy Alliance of Long Island. Sunday, 26 Aug 2001 LONG ISLAND, N.Y. It’s an interesting story how I came to be writing these diaries for Grist Magazine. Two months ago, I happened to be in Loudoun County, Va., with my oldest daughter’s softball […]

    Grist staff Uncategorized

  • Zed, last of his species, in "First Twins in a Twist"

    Grist staff Culture