Articles by Grist staff

Johnny-Come-Too-Lately

ABC News admitted yesterday that a “20/20” report by John Stossel criticizing organic produce contained inaccurate information and said the reporter would apologize on the air this Friday for his error. The report, first aired in February and then rerun in July over the objection of enviros and organic advocates, claimed that tests conducted for […]

Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada

Elizabeth May is the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada and a lifelong environmental activist. She is also a lawyer, educator, writer, and mother. Her most recent book, coauthored with fellow Canadian activist Maude Barlow, is Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal. Monday, 7 Aug 2000 OTTAWA, Ontario Today, being […]

All We Are Saying Is Give Greenpeace a Chance

Hoping to rebound after several years of internal troubles, Greenpeace USA has found a new executive director: John Passacantando, cofounder and head of Ozone Action. Passacantando hopes to merge the two organizations, a proposal the groups’ boards are considering. The organizations are now quite different: Greenpeace USA has about 300,000 members (down from a million […]

Prosthetics That Don't Cost an Arm and a Leg

An innovative recycling effort in Thailand is converting used plastic bottles and aluminum cans into prosthetic limbs for people who have been maimed by land mines. The program was launched by the Prosthesis Foundation of Thailand, which has a mission of providing free artificial limbs to every poor land mine victim in the nation. When […]