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Melissa Kirkby, student at Sterling College
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14 Jul 1999 |
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| Melissa Kirkby is a senior at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vt., majoring in sustainable agriculture. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 14 Jul 1999 Craftsbury Common, Vt. I rush back to my room over my lunch hour, needing the break from a six-hour ecology class to finish cramming for an exam this afternoon. For me, tests provoke nail biting. As I sit down at my computer to log my thoughts for this entry, I lift my fingers to my mouth. I t ... |
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Melissa Kirkby, student at Sterling College
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13 Jul 1999 |
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| Melissa Kirkby is a senior at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vt., majoring in sustainable agriculture. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 13 Jul 1999 Craftsbury Common, Vt. Summer returned today, after having given way to cool breezes and blue jeans for the weekend. I returned to the Sterling garden this afternoon to find the peas hadn't sensed the chilly air the way I had; in the three days elapsed since my last picking, another harvest had ... |
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Melissa Kirkby, student at Sterling College
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12 Jul 1999 |
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| Melissa Kirkby is a senior at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vt., majoring in sustainable agriculture. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 12 Jul 1999 Craftsbury Common, Vt. Last week, I wrote a letter to a friend describing the new culture, new landscape, new rhythm of life I have discovered in the six weeks since my move to Sterling College in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. I was drawn to Sterling, the smallest accredited four-year college ... |
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Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers
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09 Jul 1999 |
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| Rebecca Wodder is president of American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at the Wilderness Society and as the legislative assistant for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Her career in conservation started with the first Earth Day in 1970. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 09 Jul 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. This has been fun, writing these daily diary entries. I haven't kept a journal in years and don't expect to begin one now. Being the CEO of an envi ... |
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Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers
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08 Jul 1999 |
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| Rebecca Wodder is president of American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at the Wilderness Society and as the legislative assistant for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Her career in conservation started with the first Earth Day in 1970. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 08 Jul 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. The question I'm most often asked by reporters is "Why are rivers getting so much attention now?" I attribute this renewed interest to ... |
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Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers
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07 Jul 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Rebecca Wodder is president of American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at the Wilderness Society and as the legislative assistant for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Her career in conservation started with the first Earth Day in 1970. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 07 Jul 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. In 1804, 195 years ago, Thomas Jefferson sent two daring young men, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, out to explore the newly acquired lands ... |
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Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers
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06 Jul 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Rebecca Wodder is president of American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at the Wilderness Society and as the legislative assistant for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Her career in conservation started with the first Earth Day in 1970. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 06 Jul 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. A big part of my job as president of American Rivers is raising the funds we need to do our river conservation work. This is on my mind today beca ... |
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Rebecca Wodder, American Rivers
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05 Jul 1999 |
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| Rebecca Wodder is president of American Rivers in Washington, D.C. She previously worked at the Wilderness Society and as the legislative assistant for then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.). Her career in conservation started with the first Earth Day in 1970. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 05 Jul 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. I've just returned from witnessing the rebirth of a river. After 162 years of captivity, Maine's Kennebec River is flowing freely again, thanks to ... |
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
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02 Jul 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Friday, 02 Jul 1999 I've just arrived at the writers' retreat center where I'll be spending the next couple of weeks -- mostly in solitude. I'm in what is called The Tower, a single room on the second floor of the house with a bed, a desk for writing, a chair looking out over the va ... |
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
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30 Jun 1999 |
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| Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Wednesday, 30 Jun 1999 |
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
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29 Jun 1999 |
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| Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Tuesday, 29 Jun 1999 There are just a few days to wrap up as much as I can for the upcoming issue before I head off for a two-week "sabbatical." I'm assembling responses to the dialogue we did in the last issue between Paul Hawken and David Korten. The question was on the ... |
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
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28 Jun 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Monday, 28 Jun 1999 This is the beginning of summer, but there's a steady light rain outside. Except that it got light before 5 a.m. and won't get completely dark until 10:30 p.m., and that flowers are in full bloom, it could be the middle of winter. I had to wear rain pants when I ... |
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Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine
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27 Jun 1999 |
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| Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Sunday, 27 Jun 1999 Tonight was a forum in our cohousing group, and it was my turn to facilitate. We are going through a difficult transition, which has created an unusual divide in the community of thirty families. We spent 90 minutes listening to each person describe their feeling ... |
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Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition
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10 Jun 1999 |
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| Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 10 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The Energy Coalition offices buzzed and bustled today. There was roller coaster news on the cheap-electricity-for-aluminum saga I wrote about earlier this week. The new chair of the Coalition Board, Deborah Smith of Montana River Action Network, joined us for lunch. Margie Gardner, E.D. of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alli ... |
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Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition
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09 Jun 1999 |
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| Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 09 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. I am passionate about coalitions. I believe that the only way to bring about lasting social change is through strong, diverse alliances. Those of us who work for salmon, for wilderness, for justice, for clean water and air, for mercy, for freedom and for equity instead of for the bottom line need passion to keep us going. We ... |
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Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition
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08 Jun 1999 |
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| Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 08 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The hydroelectricity seminar I attended last week in Portland, Ore., which I wrote about on Sunday, gave me the chance to visit my nieces Tara, Heidi, and Kenna Patton and my nephews Connor and Andy Patton. Like most activists, I cite my younger relatives as motivation for my activism even though the truth is I got started in ... |
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Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition
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07 Jun 1999 |
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| Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 07 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The major events of the day -- besides shoveling through email, voicemail, snail mail, and faxes that accumulated over two days' absence from the office -- were lunch with three charming women and the news that the Bonneville Power Administration has once again offered the aluminum industry almost everything it wants and the de ... |
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Sara Patton, NW Energy Coalition
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06 Jun 1999 |
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| Sara Patton is director of the NW Energy Coalition based in Seattle, Wash. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Sunday, 06 Jun 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. I am home from several days in Portland, Ore., attempting to type through the ministrations of my small white cat who apparently missed me while I was gone. On Friday I was on a panel in a seminar titled "Hydroelectricity in Today's Competitive Western Marketplace." It was a continuing legal education seminar, but the ... |
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
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04 Jun 1999 |
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| Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Friday, 04 Jun 1999 DENVER, Colo. Why should environmentalists care about the fate of America's cities? Indeed, most urban policy experts assume that the environmental community doesn't care about urban policy, or such ... |
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
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03 Jun 1999 |
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| Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Thursday, 03 Jun 1999 DENVER, Colo. I spent yesterday morning at home mixing work and family, and then drove to Albuquerque (2 hours), flew to Denver (1 hour and a half), and took a shuttle from Denver's massive new ai ... |
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
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02 Jun 1999 |
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| Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Wednesday, 02 Jun 1999 LAS VEGAS, N.M. (NOT Nevada) This past Memorial Day weekend was a beautiful one here in northeastern New Mexico. Late spring and early summer in the Sangre De Christo range can be windy and unpre ... |
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Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation Policy Project
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01 Jun 1999 |
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| Hank Dittmar directs the Transportation and Quality of Life Campaign of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a coalition of environmental and community groups working to reform transportation policy. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Tuesday, 01 Jun 1999 LAS VEGAS, N.M. It's been just about a year since my wife and I packed up our house and our infant twins and moved from Washington, D.C. to northern New Mexico. I'd just completed a five-year stint ... |
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Elise Richer, Urban Institute
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28 May 1999 |
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| Elise Richer plays center halfback for the Flanders Football Club and does social policy research for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 28 May 1999 NORTH FALMOUTH, Mass. If defining a neighborhood is difficult, given the subjective notions people bring to the definition, then defining a community seems to be virtually impossible. The word community has such a nice ring -- implying some kind of intangible bond or consensus -- ... |
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Elise Richer, Urban Institute
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27 May 1999 |
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| Elise Richer plays center halfback for the Flanders Football Club and does social policy research for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 27 May 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. The neighborhood of Columbia Heights starts about eight blocks east from my building, but it might as well be eight miles east for all the interaction I have with it. For most residents of Adams Morgan and Mount Pleasant -- the gentrified and gentrifying areas ... |
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Elise Richer, Urban Institute
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26 May 1999 |
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| Elise Richer plays center halfback for the Flanders Football Club and does social policy research for the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 26 May 1999 WASHINGTON, D.C. In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino imagines Marco Polo describing innumerable cities to the emperor Kubla Khan. The perpetual voyager, Polo explains to Khan that when visiting a new and unknown city, the traveler is confronted with the realm of possible lives ... |
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