Articles by Grist staff

A Grist special series on food and farming

You know where babies come from, sure — but do you know where Tater Tots come from? In this two-week series, we’ll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of your very own diet. Everybody eats, every day, but we tend to gloss over the details. Things like the work that really goes into putting food […]

Green investment funds are taking off

Eco-friendly investment funds are sssssssssssmokin’!

Organisms living in toxic waste pit may help fight cancer

Montana’s Berkeley Pit, containing 40 billion gallons of poisonous copper-mine runoff including arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, and zinc, has two claims to fame. One, it once killed a flock of hundreds of geese the moment they touched down on its surface. Two, the 40-billion-gallon pit houses 142 organisms — some of which have shown success in […]

Publisher will produce first eco-friendly Bible

Coming soon to a hotel room near you: the first green Bible, expected to hit the scene later this month from publisher Thomas Nelson. The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Daily Bible — which perhaps includes the 11th commandment “Thou shalt be principled”? — will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and contain recycled […]