Articles by Grist staff

Green Mountain's Green's Mountin'

Oil giant BP Amoco and a group of unnamed investors announced yesterday that they will invest as much as $100 million in GreenMountain.com, a company that sells renewable energy and natural gas as alternatives to power from dirtier sources. GreenMountain, which already has more than 100,000 residential customers in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, plans […]

Celling Like Hot Cakes

Texaco yesterday announced a sizable investment in fuel-cell technology, agreeing to pay $67.3 million for a 20 percent stake in Energy Conversion Devices Inc., an alternative energy company. Texaco plans to work with ECD to develop fuel cells, which combine hydrogen and oxygen to make power, as well as other alternative fuel technologies. Fuel cells […]

Cutting Through the Crop

The Clinton-Gore administration today is unveiling a proposal to tighten the regulation of genetically modified (GM) foods, but the plan falls far short of what consumer and enviro groups say is needed to protect public health and the environment. The proposal would require, among other things, that biotech companies notify the Food and Drug Administration […]

A Site for Sore Eyes

GreaterGood.com, an online shopping portal dedicated to charitable giving, yesterday launched the Rainforest Site, a website that lets people protect 19.2 square feet of rainforest with a single click of the mouse, as often as once a day. A group of rotating site sponsors pay for donations to a Nature Conservancy program that purchases and […]