Articles by Grist staff

The Placer's All Mine

Placer Dome, a Canadian gold mining company that has been on the defensive ever since a devastating waste spill at one of its mines in the Philippines in 1996, is trying to clean up its image with a “sustainability initiative.” In a meeting in Sydney last month, the company negotiated a draft agreement with environmental […]

Matt Zencey, Alaska Rainforest Campaign

Matt Zencey is campaign manager of the Alaska Rainforest Campaign. A 19-year resident of Anchorage, Alaska, Matt temporarily moved to Washington, D.C., last fall to expand the campaign’s national operation. He will be glad to leave behind the chaos and congestion of the Washington area in June, when he will return to the campaign’s Alaska […]

Certifiably Sane

Consumers and businesses will soon be able to buy a number of products and services that don’t cause any net greenhouse gases to be released into the environment, thanks to a program launched by the Climate Neutral Network in Underwood, Wash. The network certifies companies that reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions as much as possible and […]

Have a Coke and a Frown

Residents of a number of Colombian villages say their health, crops, and farm animals are being threatened by an American-sponsored program intended to wipe out heroin poppy and coca cultivation, and they fear that problems are likely to get worse with a Clinton administration proposal to intensify its anti-drug efforts in Colombia. Government planes and […]