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John Mauro, Pilchuck Audubon Society
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13 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| John Mauro is smart growth director for Pilchuck Audubon Society in Everett, Wash. He works to stop sprawl and ensure that clean water and wildlife habitat maintain a high profile in the growth-management dialogue. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 13 Aug 2003 EVERETT, Wash. As I ride into work this sunny Wednesday morning, I tip my helmet to that hearty and seemingly rare breed -- the pedestrian. Representing less than 1 percent of the total commute tr ... |
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John Mauro, Pilchuck Audubon Society
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12 Aug 2003 |
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| John Mauro is smart growth director for Pilchuck Audubon Society in Everett, Wash. He works to stop sprawl and ensure that clean water and wildlife habitat maintain a high profile in the growth-management dialogue. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 12 Aug 2003 EVERETT, Wash. As I fill my breakfast bowl with fuel this Tuesday morning, I'll fill yours with stats. (This is one of my shameless faults.) While commuting to work on my bike in the name of sustain ... |
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John Mauro, Pilchuck Audubon Society
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11 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| John Mauro is smart growth director for Pilchuck Audubon Society in Everett, Wash. He works to stop sprawl and ensure that clean water and wildlife habitat maintain a high profile in the growth-management dialogue. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 11 Aug 2003 EVERETT, Wash. I live a good portion of my day in spandex. Perhaps atypical apparel for a smart growth director, its use murmurs a message I carry with me to work: save your soul, save your community ... |
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Anna Hewitt, Shelburne Farms
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08 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Anna Hewitt is an apprentice in the market garden at Shelburne Farms, a sustainable farm and nonprofit environmental education center in Vermont. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 08 Aug 2003 SHELBURNE, Vt. I have made it to the end of the week, almost. Every week goes by fast here, but I am definitely more tired during Friday's harvest than I was on Monday. Today is my big challenge: Both Mark and Susan are away, so I'm running the show, so to speak. There's nothi ... |
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Anna Hewitt, Shelburne Farms
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07 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Anna Hewitt is an apprentice in the market garden at Shelburne Farms, a sustainable farm and nonprofit environmental education center in Vermont. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 07 Aug 2003 SHELBURNE, Vt. I can't say that my job is always unpredictable. It may not sound glamorous or exciting, but there is something to be said for routine. Weeks in the garden have patterns that repeat themselves again and again. It is within the patterns of the daily landscape t ... |
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Anna Hewitt, Shelburne Farms
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06 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Anna Hewitt is an apprentice in the market garden at Shelburne Farms, a sustainable farm and nonprofit environmental education center in Vermont. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 06 Aug 2003 SHELBURNE, Vt. This week has gone from sticky to steamy, but rain seems imminent. It's harvest day again. Plants have been patiently growing for two days and the inn is ready for another delivery. Once the mesclun is cut, I take a big box and fill it with 15 pounds of ... |
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Anna Hewitt, Shelburne Farms
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05 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Anna Hewitt is an apprentice in the market garden at Shelburne Farms, a sustainable farm and nonprofit environmental education center in Vermont. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 05 Aug 2003 SHELBURNE, Vt. For a while I've had this dream. I imagine a different structure to society: Instead of strip malls and parking lots growing over the land, I would like to see fields and parks and community gardens as gathering places. Instead of weekend lawn care, I fantasize ... |
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Anna Hewitt, Shelburne Farms
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04 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Anna Hewitt is an apprentice in the market garden at Shelburne Farms, a sustainable farm and nonprofit environmental education center in Vermont. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 04 Aug 2003 SHELBURNE, Vt. I'm up early on a Monday morning. The sky is just beginning to get light when my alarm goes off. Today is a harvest day and the beginning of my week in the garden. I usually see the sun coming up over the Green Mountains as I pedal my bike sleepily to work, but ... |
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Ross Freeman, American Rivers
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01 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Ross Freeman is staff scientist at the Northwest regional office of American Rivers, a conservation organization that restores and protects river systems nationwide. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 01 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. There's nothing like getting out of the country to provide some perspective on your work and life. Travel abroad has a marvelous power to reconcile the necessary with the inordinate. So often we are reminded that whatever the predicament we ... |
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Ross Freeman, American Rivers
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31 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Ross Freeman is staff scientist at the Northwest regional office of American Rivers, a conservation organization that restores and protects river systems nationwide. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 31 Jul 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. You can't go very far in the Northwest without encountering water in one form or another. And I'm not just referring to the continuous eight-month rainstorm that seems to engulf the region every winter like a murky gray blanket. No, people ... |
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Ross Freeman, American Rivers
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30 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Ross Freeman is staff scientist at the Northwest regional office of American Rivers, a conservation organization that restores and protects river systems nationwide. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 30 Jul 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. I often reflect on past jobs I've held, and the lessons from them that now travel with me. One of the positions that yielded especially lasting memories was my role as raft program manager for SPLORE, a nonprofit based in Moab, Utah, that ... |
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Ross Freeman, American Rivers
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29 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Ross Freeman is staff scientist at the Northwest regional office of American Rivers, a conservation organization that restores and protects river systems nationwide. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 29 Jul 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. I can't recall when my fascination with flowing water began, but I know that my early childhood years involved a lot of muddy riverine creations in a neighbor's hillside flowerbed. We'd scrape out a channel, put "towns" alongside, ... |
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Ross Freeman, American Rivers
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28 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Ross Freeman is staff scientist at the Northwest regional office of American Rivers, a conservation organization that restores and protects river systems nationwide. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 28 Jul 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. As far as I can recall, the last time I had an entirely predictable, no-surprises week was during the tail end of my high school years, counting those languid days before an out-of-state escape to college. Ever since then, I've loosely follo ... |
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Kirk Henderson, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program
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03 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Kirk Henderson is program manager for the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program, a project of the Native Roadside Vegetation Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Thursday, 03 Jul 2003 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa Caring about native plants and herbicide reduction can make you lonely. I got a call last week from a friend at Iowa Department of Natural Resources who works as a botanist with the ecologic ... |
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Kirk Henderson, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program
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02 Jul 2003 |
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| Kirk Henderson is program manager for the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program, a project of the Native Roadside Vegetation Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Wednesday, 02 Jul 2003 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa I hear the words hoein' and mowin' a lot these days. That's in reference to student work assignments here at the Native Roadside Vegetation Center. Greg Houseal and Dave Williams run the ce ... |
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Kirk Henderson, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program
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01 Jul 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Kirk Henderson is program manager for the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program, a project of the Native Roadside Vegetation Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Tuesday, 01 Jul 2003 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa It's time to send a letter out to the county roadside managers reminding them that the deadline for Living Roadway Trust Fund grant applications is coming up. When the Iowa legislature create ... |
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Kirk Henderson, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program
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30 Jun 2003 |
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| Kirk Henderson is program manager for the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management Program, a project of the Native Roadside Vegetation Center at the University of Northern Iowa. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Monday, 30 Jun 2003 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa In 1989, Iowa passed a bill creating a new state program -- Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM). Groundwater protection was the objective. Iowa used to blanket-spray herbicides ov ... |
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Soll Sussman, Texas Sustainable Energy Network
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27 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Soll Sussman works in the energy division of the Texas General Land Office, where he helped organize the Texas Sustainable Energy Network. Also a writer, he formerly worked for the Associated Press as bureau chief in Canada and correspondent in Washington, Mexico City, and Central America. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 27 Jun 2003 AUSTIN, Texas. Two down, four to go. With the national wind conference last month and the national solar conferenc ... |
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Soll Sussman, Texas Sustainable Energy Network
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26 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Soll Sussman works in the energy division of the Texas General Land Office, where he helped organize the Texas Sustainable Energy Network. Also a writer, he formerly worked for the Associated Press as bureau chief in Canada and correspondent in Washington, Mexico City, and Central America. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 26 Jun 2003 AUSTIN, Texas. Austin showed off some of our pop culture attractions last night by providing an evening of Texas ... |
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Soll Sussman, Texas Sustainable Energy Network
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25 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Soll Sussman works in the energy division of the Texas General Land Office, where he helped organize the Texas Sustainable Energy Network. Also a writer, he formerly worked for the Associated Press as bureau chief in Canada and correspondent in Washington, Mexico City, and Central America. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 25 Jun 2003 AUSTIN, Texas Some of the heartiest of the participants in the American Solar Energy Society conference were up ... |
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Soll Sussman, Texas Sustainable Energy Network
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24 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Soll Sussman works in the energy division of the Texas General Land Office, where he helped organize the Texas Sustainable Energy Network. Also a writer, he formerly worked for the Associated Press as bureau chief in Canada and correspondent in Washington, Mexico City, and Central America. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 24 Jun 2003 AUSTIN, Texas. The Texas Sustainable Energy Network almost didn't have a name. A few months ago, we were a gr ... |
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Soll Sussman, Texas Sustainable Energy Network
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23 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Soll Sussman works in the energy division of the Texas General Land Office, where he helped organize the Texas Sustainable Energy Network. Also a writer, he formerly worked for the Associated Press as bureau chief in Canada and correspondent in Washington, Mexico City, and Central America. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 23 Jun 2003 AUSTIN, Texas This should be a big week for the Texas Sustainable Energy Network, one of the reasons we formed nea ... |
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Jill Rosenblum, The Natural Step
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20 Jun 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Jill Rosenblum is director of communications and outreach for the U.S. office of The Natural Step, an international research and advisoryorganization working with corporations, governments, scientists, and academics to accelerate global sustainability. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 20 Jun 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. I could spend all day reading if I had time and a higher tolerance for bad news. In addition to reading mainstream papers and business journals, ... |
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Jill Rosenblum, The Natural Step
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19 Jun 2003 |
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| Jill Rosenblum is director of communications and outreach for the U.S. office of The Natural Step, an international research and advisoryorganization working with corporations, governments, scientists, and academics to accelerate global sustainability. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 19 Jun 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. I've devoted today to research. Our research team is working on some fantastic projects and one of my highest priorities is getting the result ... |
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Jill Rosenblum, The Natural Step
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18 Jun 2003 |
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| Jill Rosenblum is director of communications and outreach for the U.S. office of The Natural Step, an international research and advisoryorganization working with corporations, governments, scientists, and academics to accelerate global sustainability. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 18 Jun 2003 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. During my 30-minute commute to work, I'm made aware of the propagation of multinational companies. On my walk to the 16th Street BART station ... |
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