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Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
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04 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Appropriate Technology in Tennessee, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture, and technology. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 04 Dec 2000 UNGUIA, Colombia The fruit hanging from the trees here, which looks like Idaho's biggest baking potatoes, is zapote (Pachira acuatica), w ... |
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
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01 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 01 Dec 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Volunteers load up trash. One of the things I really like about working for PRIDE is being able to see evidence of what we have accomplished. It is exhilarating to drive by a former dumpsite and see grass growing, or a school and see kids stud ... |
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
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30 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 30 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. My nephew and I turned over rocks in the creek last night looking for fauna (yes, it was very cold!). At seven, Jarod can already identify the critters faster and with more authority than I. We have been surveying the same area regularly sin ... |
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
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29 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 29 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. I'm pulling double duty today. Sandy Elswick, PRIDE's receptionist extraordinaire, is on vacation. It's not uncommon for us to field a couple of hundred calls a day, ranging from grant-related questions to "my neighbor has a straight p ... |
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
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28 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 28 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Putting PRIDE on the map. Illegal dumps are a major problem throughout the 40-county-region served by PRIDE. Approximately 60 percent of the illegal dumps in Kentucky are found within our region. PRIDE attacks illegal dumps primarily throu ... |
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Carol Cox, Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment
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27 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Carol Cox is the grant compliance specialist at PRIDE, which works to clean up rivers and stop illegal dumping of trash in Kentucky. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 27 Nov 2000 SOMERSET, Ky. Today, I want to give you some background information about Personal Responsibility In a Desirable Environment (PRIDE). Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers (R-Ky.) and James Bickford, the cabinet secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental ... |
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Planet of the Aches
The U.S. balks at a global solution to global warming |
Bill McKibben |
22 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands If you walk straight out the front door of this convention hall and skirt the sandbagged dike that activists built during a weekend demonstration, you find yourself at the front door of a squat building with a U.N. flag flying from a pole. Enter it (past a pair of metal detectors) and you find yourself in the chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics) |
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Hostel Takeover
Greenpeace student activists stir things up at The Hague |
Bill McKibben |
21 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Hague, with its constant drizzle, qualifies as one of the gloomiest cities I've ever visited, and the tense, uncertain busyness of the convention center doesn't add much to the atmosphere. But a 20-minute train ride from the hall brings you to the one truly hopping spot in town, a youth hostel that has been taken over by Greenpeace for the duration of the conference. S ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, grassroots activism, Netherlands, politics (all these topics) |
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A Hague Sense of Unease
Will the rest of the world bend to U.S. pressure to weaken Kyoto? |
Bill McKibben |
20 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands An hour's drive from the crowded convention hall where international negotiators are toiling to reach some agreement on fighting climate change, you can visit one of the enormous storm surge barriers the Dutch have built to keep the North Sea at bay. Comprising hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete and steel, they stand guard at the river mouths to pre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics) |
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Everything But the Carbon Sink
Climate negotiators in The Hague have their work cut out for them |
Bill McKibben |
17 Nov 2000 |
Main Dish |
| THE HAGUE, Netherlands This month's international climate negotiations in The Hague, though full of sound and fury, are about one thing and one thing only: using policy in an attempt to bridge the wide gap between science and politics. If you keep that in mind, you'll have some sense of whether the session is a success or not -- a better sense, probably, than you'll get f ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics) |
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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17 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 17 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The adventures of Steve and Ulla -- Part II. Last night, we made it halfway home from Philadelphia before ... |
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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16 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 16 Nov 2000 PHILADELPHIA, Penn. I'm writing this entry early this morning since the day will be tied up. Today, Steve and I are in Pe ... |
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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15 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 15 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Steve and I are headed to Philadelphia this afternoon for a funders meeting with Pew to discuss our Sout ... |
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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14 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 14 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. We're working today on completing an action plan for the air and water quality subcommittee of a regional ... |
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Ulla-Britt Reeves, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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13 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Ulla-Britt Reeves is the clean air program director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Although she is a native West Coaster, she has lived and worked in the East for six years. Before her job at SACE, Ulla worked for an international volunteer agency in Virginia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 13 Nov 2000 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. We had a lovely fall morning here in east Tennessee -- the sunrise cast brilliant pink reflections across t ... |
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Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil
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10 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 10 Nov 2000 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil Today I am working on the last details of our business plan for the Social Entrepreneur Award, promoted by McKinsey and Ashoka. This award recognizes the development of financially sustain ... |
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Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil
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09 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 09 Nov 2000 PARANA, Brazil For the past six months I have been spending five days a month here in Parana, working with one of Brazil's pioneers in carbon sequestration projects, my friend Clovis Borges (another Ashoka Fe ... |
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Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil
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08 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 08 Nov 2000 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil I arrive at the Tom Jobim Airport in Rio de Janeiro very early. From Rio, I drive two hours to a farm in the countryside, which I visit once a month. Degraded pasture in the Rio de Jan ... |
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Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil
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07 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 07 Nov 2000 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil Today I think I'll tell you a story that began a long time ago. This is an old story, with a happy end. But the story is not over yet. It is a case where the replay of the happy ending co ... |
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Fabio Rosa, Ashoka Brazil
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06 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Fabio Luis de Oliviera Rosa is a fellow with Ashoka Brazil. An economist and lawyer, he has developed low-cost rural electrification models to improve quality of life for the rural poor and to slow urban migration. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 06 Nov 2000 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil At IDEAAS, the Brazilian NGO that I started, we are working in rural areas to develop and improve programs that simultaneously eliminate poverty, promote sustainable development, and conser ... |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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03 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 03 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. The results of the bug bash are in. Our lead developer has gone through and "triaged" the bugs we found yesterday. After culling out the duplicates and the ones that, on further reflection, aren't bugs at all, he's sorted them by their importance. ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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02 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 02 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. Stayed late at work yesterday: My team was having a bug bash. We spent the evening looking for bugs in a twisted parody of a brainstorming session: Who can think up the most creative way to break the product? This one was pretty good. We found 65 bugs in a ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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01 Nov 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 01 Nov 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. How much power does your computer use? It's probably around 100 watts for a desktop machine, but what does that 100 watts mean? I work in an office with two honking current-guzzlers, and I have a pretty visceral sense of their power usage: I can feel it i ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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31 Oct 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 31 Oct 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. Software development is a resource-obsessed business, even though these "resources" are close to pure abstractions. Everything is measured in terms of its costs: how many CPU cycles this algorithm will take to run, how much disk space the program ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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James Grimmelmann, Microsoft
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30 Oct 2000 |
Dispatches |
| James Grimmelmann is a resident of Seattle, Wash., a software design engineer with the Microsoft Corporation, and the madman behind The Laboratorium. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 30 Oct 2000 SEATTLE, Wash. I've worked at Microsoft for a year and half total, and in that time I've received two spider Koosh balls (Kooshes with only 20 or so hairs, giving them the lean look of predators), three twisty link toys, an indoor Frisbee, a magnetic poetry kit, a high-bou ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, fuel efficiency, hybrids, tech (all these topics) |
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