Articles by Grist staff

Frito-Lay hopes to manufacture eco-friendly potato chips

You know it’s crunch time when a potato-chip factory goes green. A Frito-Lay factory in Arizona has plans to produce, yes, carbon-neutral potato chips: sliced, fried, seasoned, and bagged in a plant nearly entirely off-grid and powered with renewable fuels. The company’s Casa Grande plant will make do in its desert locale by recycling water, […]

Hybrid Chevy Tahoe wins “Green Car of the Year” award

The Green Car Journal has awarded the “Green Car of the Year” prize to … drumroll please … the hybrid Chevy Tahoe. An eight-passenger SUV not yet on sale? Whaaa? “People don’t think green when SUVs are concerned and for generally good reason, since SUVS often get poor fuel economy,” says Green Car publisher Ron […]

Database on world’s 50,000 power plants launched, Florida coal plant scrapped

The Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C., launched a database Wednesday (with maps!) containing all sorts of useful information on over 50,000 of the world’s power plants, quantifying their CO2 emissions as well as the energy they produce, their locations, and more. (It’s more exciting than it sounds.) For instance, power […]

Midwestern governors sign greenhouse-gas reduction pact

The governors of six Midwestern states and the premier of Manitoba signed on to the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord yesterday, the first such multistate program in the U.S. Midwest. For those of you keeping track at home, along with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Northeast and an agreement among West Coast governors, […]