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Charlotte Brody, Health Care Without Harm
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12 May 2003 |
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| Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse, is a founder and executive director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of 416 organizations in 44 countries working to make health care more environmentally responsible and sustainable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 12 May 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. A sunny, breezy morning. So I walked across Washington instead of taking the Metro. The azaleas are fading but there are new roses and peonies. On ... |
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Environmental Defense
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09 May 2003 |
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| Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is policy director for the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project Office of Environmental Defense. Her work focuses on greening the built environment, increasing green space in L.A.'s urban core, and ensuring transportation equity for the working poor. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 09 May 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Those of you who've been reading these entries all week know by now that I'm something of a non-traditional envir ... |
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Environmental Defense
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08 May 2003 |
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| Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is policy director for the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project Office of Environmental Defense. Her work focuses on greening the built environment, increasing green space in L.A.'s urban core, and ensuring transportation equity for the working poor. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 08 May 2003 LOS ANGELES, Calif. I'm on a plane, on my way to the board meeting in New York City, where Environmental Defense was founded. ... |
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Environmental Defense
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07 May 2003 |
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| Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is policy director for the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project Office of Environmental Defense. Her work focuses on greening the built environment, increasing green space in L.A.'s urban core, and ensuring transportation equity for the working poor. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 07 May 2003 LOS ANGELES, Calif. It's late afternoon and I'm in a classroom on the second floor of a Catholic school in the Adams-La Brea ... |
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Environmental Defense
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06 May 2003 |
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| Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is policy director for the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project Office of Environmental Defense. Her work focuses on greening the built environment, increasing green space in L.A.'s urban core, and ensuring transportation equity for the working poor. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 06 May 2003 LOS ANGELES, Calif. Another Monday safely over, and Tuesday looms large. This morning, my colleague, Luis Flores de Luna, and I ... |
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Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, Environmental Defense
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05 May 2003 |
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| Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza is policy director for the Los Angeles Environmental Justice Project Office of Environmental Defense. Her work focuses on greening the built environment, increasing green space in L.A.'s urban core, and ensuring transportation equity for the working poor. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 05 May 2003 LOS ANGELES, Calif. Monday mornings are rough, especially when you're trying to be healthy and kick caffeine. Truly awake or not ... |
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Karen Salinger, Go Greenbelt! Ride
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01 May 2003 |
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| Karen Salinger is a cyclist on the Go Greenbelt! Ride, a fundraiser for the San Francisco-based Greenbelt Alliance. When not balancing on two wheels, she promotes sustainable agriculture by distributing organic produce through Veritable Vegetable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 01 May 2003 SANTA ROSA, Calif. Morning came early on this fifth day of the ride, with the sunrise spreading shades of vermilion across the sky. Our breakfast stop was about five m ... |
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Karen Salinger, Go Greenbelt! Ride
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30 Apr 2003 |
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| Karen Salinger is a cyclist on the Go Greenbelt! Ride, a fundraiser for the San Francisco-based Greenbelt Alliance. When not balancing on two wheels, she promotes sustainable agriculture by distributing organic produce through Veritable Vegetable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 30 Apr 2003 FAIRFIELD, Calif. Wind: good for turbines, bad for bicyclists. Photo: Mike Kahn. Day Four of the ride begins with a group chant: "no wind, no wind." Our rou ... |
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Karen Salinger, Go Greenbelt! Ride
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29 Apr 2003 |
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| Karen Salinger is a cyclist on the Go Greenbelt! Ride, a fundraiser for the San Francisco-based Greenbelt Alliance. When not balancing on two wheels, she promotes sustainable agriculture by distributing organic produce through Veritable Vegetable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 29 Apr 2003 LIVERMORE, Calif. The third day of the ride -- usually my favorite day -- has been a cycling event I will not soon forget, for many reasons. This morning, most people w ... |
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Karen Salinger, Go Greenbelt! Ride
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28 Apr 2003 |
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| Karen Salinger is a cyclist on the Go Greenbelt! Ride, a fundraiser for the San Francisco-based Greenbelt Alliance. When not balancing on two wheels, she promotes sustainable agriculture by distributing organic produce through Veritable Vegetable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 28 Apr 2003 SAN JOSE, Calif. Day 2 of the ride was, in fact, a wet one. We left Los Gatos uncertain about the dark clouds looming overhead. Everyone packed some sort of rain gear, w ... |
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Karen Salinger, Go Greenbelt! Ride
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27 Apr 2003 |
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| Karen Salinger is a cyclist on the Go Greenbelt! Ride, a fundraiser for the San Francisco-based Greenbelt Alliance. When not balancing on two wheels, she promotes sustainable agriculture by distributing organic produce through Veritable Vegetable. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Sunday, 27 Apr 2003 LOS GATOS, Calif. Every April for the past nine years, I have set out on a 480-mile, seven-day bicycle ride whose primary goal is to raise money for the Greenbelt Allian ... |
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Jean Ponzi, Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
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25 Apr 2003 |
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| Jean Ponzi promotes environmental education for kids, business people, and the general public as program manager for the Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 25 Apr 2003 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Question: What's longer than a classroom, loud, kinetic, and involves humongous resources? Answer: the Energy Chain, a tried-and-true element of the Gateway Center's bag of tr ... |
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Jean Ponzi, Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
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24 Apr 2003 |
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| Jean Ponzi promotes environmental education for kids, business people, and the general public as program manager for the Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 24 Apr 2003 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Creeks and highway skip along together, voluptuously curved. The view goes deep into the hazy green of an oak-hickory understory, where drifted banks of dogwood sparkle in the mo ... |
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Jean Ponzi, Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
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23 Apr 2003 |
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| Jean Ponzi promotes environmental education for kids, business people, and the general public as program manager for the Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 23 Apr 2003 ST. LOUIS, Mo. One of the major Earth Day events held here in the Confluence Watershed was the fourth annual water symposium, which addressed connections between environmental, social, and eco ... |
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Jean Ponzi, Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
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22 Apr 2003 |
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| Jean Ponzi promotes environmental education for kids, business people, and the general public as program manager for the Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 22 Apr 2003 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Happy Earth Day! I feel really privileged to be writing for Grist this week, prime time for the human attention-span to focus on environmental issues. Countdown to airtime on KDHX ... |
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Jean Ponzi, Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency
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21 Apr 2003 |
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| Jean Ponzi promotes environmental education for kids, business people, and the general public as program manager for the Gateway Center for Resource Efficiency, a division of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 21 Apr 2003 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Earth Week. In my business -- environmental education -- this strip on the calendar includes actual Earth Day, April 22. In just three decades of official acknowledgement, that dat ... |
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Joel Sisolak, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
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18 Apr 2003 |
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| Joel Sisolak is executive director of Friends of the Cedar River Watershed in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 18 Apr 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" shows Jesus and his followers at the table. Da Vinci doesn't depict what happened after dinner. In Jesus's time, like today, the Middle East was hot and dusty, and sandals were the all the rage when it came to foot fashion. Feet got ... |
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Joel Sisolak, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
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17 Apr 2003 |
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| Joel Sisolak is executive director of Friends of the Cedar River Watershed in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 17 Apr 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. My email box is full. I skip over the unsolicited ads and barrage of listserv arguments, scrolling down to a message from Roz, a longtime member of the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed board of directors. The subject line reads: "Mission Statement." At our last board meeti ... |
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Joel Sisolak, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
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16 Apr 2003 |
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| Joel Sisolak is executive director of Friends of the Cedar River Watershed in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 16 Apr 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. God, I miss pizza and beer. Three weeks ago, I began a detoxification diet recommended by my doctor. No dairy, no wheat, no alcohol, no caffeine, no refined sugar, no corn, no tomatoes, no peanuts ... no fun. The doctor informed me that for 32 years, my body has been absorbing toxins fr ... |
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Joel Sisolak, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
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15 Apr 2003 |
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| Joel Sisolak is executive director of Friends of the Cedar River Watershed in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 15 Apr 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. FDR called taxes "the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." I tend to agree. I believe in strong government, with the burden of its funding justly distributed among citizens. I believe in taxation as a vehicle for building good schools, ser ... |
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Joel Sisolak, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed
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14 Apr 2003 |
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| Joel Sisolak is executive director of Friends of the Cedar River Watershed in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 14 Apr 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. This past weekend was relatively quiet. I had time to avoid my spring cleaning, relax with a book, and play ultimate Frisbee. I did make one trip out to North Bend, Wash., to speak to the new volunteer docents at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center. They were "graduating" aft ... |
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Scott Hoffman Black, Xerces Society
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11 Apr 2003 |
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| Scott Hoffman Black is executive director of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the diversity of life through the conservation of invertebrates. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 11 Apr 2003 PORTLAND, Ore. Crank day! No, I am not talking about drugs (except maybe lots of caffeine). I am talking about a marathon workday here at the Xerces Society. This is the brainchild of Mace Vaughan, the staff entomologist a ... |
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Scott Hoffman Black, Xerces Society
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10 Apr 2003 |
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| Scott Hoffman Black is executive director of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the diversity of life through the conservation of invertebrates. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 10 Apr 2003 PORTLAND, Ore. Fundraising is one of those tasks that always seems to get pushed to the bottom of the list of things to do. Most people who work for nonprofits take on the low pay and long hours because we want to make a ... |
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Scott Hoffman Black, Xerces Society
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09 Apr 2003 |
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| Scott Hoffman Black is executive director of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the diversity of life through the conservation of invertebrates. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 09 Apr 2003 PORTLAND, Ore. Education is an important part of our work at the Xerces Society. Each year, we speak to thousands of people from schools, garden clubs, and conservation groups. In the last year, we have reached out to n ... |
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Scott Hoffman Black, Xerces Society
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08 Apr 2003 |
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| Scott Hoffman Black is executive director of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the diversity of life through the conservation of invertebrates. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 08 Apr 2003 PORTLAND, Ore. Deadlines are always a part of running any nonprofit, and the Xerces Society is no different. This week, we have deadlines for grant applications and deadlines for comments on a plan to spray pesticides. We ... |
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