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Andrew Larson, Seattle Public Utilities
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27 Oct 2003 |
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| Andrew Larson works in the Watershed Management Division of Seattle Public Utilities as a forest ecology intern. He is also pursuing graduate studies in Forest Ecosystem Analysis at the University of Washington. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 27 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. Just a few weeks ago my life wasn't quite so busy. I was working full-time in the Forest Ecology Group of the Seattle Public Utilities Watershed Management Division. Now, I'm a full-ti ... |
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Barbara Dean, Island Press
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24 Oct 2003 |
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| Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 24 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. When I stepped outside this morning, I was greeted by the howl of a lone coyote -- coming from the hill to the west of my house instead of from the river canyon to the east, which is the direction from which the coyotes usually call. I remember the first time I heard that sound, soon after I moved here. I had no idea ... |
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Barbara Dean, Island Press
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23 Oct 2003 |
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| Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 23 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. The morning sun cuts through the fog. The sky was streaked with red at dusk last evening and true to the sailors' advice ("red sky at night ... "), the sun is piercing the morning fog right now, promising another day of clear blue brilliance. I know that by mid-October I should be hoping for the beginning ... |
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Barbara Dean, Island Press
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22 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 22 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. Today, the season seems to be turning. Instead of brilliant sunshine, the hills are capped by light clouds, and for the first morning in a long time, I wasn't awakened by the hummingbirds buzzing around the feeder outside my window. Instead of the hummers' buzz, today the air is full of the sound of scurrying in t ... |
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Barbara Dean, Island Press
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21 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 21 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. On these autumn, pre-daylight-saving-change days, I'm at my desk before the sun comes over the hills across the river, so while I check my email, I can watch the morning spread over the meadow, and the colors change from gray to brilliant blue (sky), green (conifers), and gold (meadow grass). The transition from nig ... |
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Barbara Dean, Island Press
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20 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Barbara Dean is executive editor at Island Press, a nonprofit environmental book publisher. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 20 Oct 2003 COVELO, Calif. It's another gorgeous autumn day on this remote square mile of Northern California. The morning sky over the hills across the river is turning from the gray of early dawn to clear brilliant blue. The oaks framing the meadow are just beginning to lose their leaves, and the hills are dotted with the red of poison oak. ... |
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Clark Williams-Derry, Northwest Environment Watch
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10 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Clark Williams-Derry is research director at Northwest Environment Watch, a nonprofit research and communication center that promotes sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 10 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. Two days ago, I made the not-particularly-controversial claim that GDP and the Dow Jones Industrial Average don't do a good job of representing people's well-being and have virtually no bearing on the integrity o ... |
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Clark Williams-Derry, Northwest Environment Watch
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09 Oct 2003 |
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| Clark Williams-Derry is research director at Northwest Environment Watch, a nonprofit research and communication center that promotes sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 09 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. An excerpt from Merriam-Webster.com: diary (n) -- ... a daily record of personal activities, reflections, or feelings I've never been good at keeping a diary. I think I was seven the first time I tried to st ... |
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Clark Williams-Derry, Northwest Environment Watch
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08 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Clark Williams-Derry is research director at Northwest Environment Watch, a nonprofit research and communication center that promotes sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 08 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. On Monday -- before I got sidetracked by my neuroses -- I promised that I'd write about working on an environmental indicators project. (Think of this as the "blatant shilling for my own group" diary ... |
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Clark Williams-Derry, Northwest Environment Watch
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07 Oct 2003 |
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| Clark Williams-Derry is research director at Northwest Environment Watch, a nonprofit research and communication center that promotes sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 07 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. So, Dr. Reader, I confess: Most of the time I am a tangle of nerves. For as long as I can remember, I've been prone to anxieties, both social and ontological. As in, why do I exist? And, will anyone laugh at me ... |
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Clark Williams-Derry, Northwest Environment Watch
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06 Oct 2003 |
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| Clark Williams-Derry is research director at Northwest Environment Watch, a nonprofit research and communication center that promotes sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 06 Oct 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. I am in a completely foul mood. What on God's so-far-still-green earth was I thinking when I agreed to do this stupid diary? Oh, that's right, here's what I was thinking, or should I say "thinking" ... |
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Thad Miller, Columbia grad student
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03 Oct 2003 |
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| Thad Miller is studying for an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 03 Oct 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. It's Friday and this is my last entry. I must say that I have really enjoyed this experience. It's been amazing to see the reactions -- even if people don't agree with my perspectives, at least the issues are being thought and talked about, and I've been surpris ... |
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Thad Miller, Columbia grad student
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02 Oct 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Thad Miller is studying for an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 02 Oct 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Last night I attended a lecture by Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia's Low Library. Professor Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute here at Columbia, and among his other duties he is a special advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. His talk focused on th ... |
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Thad Miller, Columbia grad student
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01 Oct 2003 |
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| Thad Miller is studying for an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 01 Oct 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Happy October! Just a quick follow-up to yesterday's entry to start things off: This morning at 9:30 a.m. (EST), the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will debate the science behind and possible solutions to global warming, according to En ... |
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Thad Miller, Columbia grad student
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30 Sep 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Thad Miller is studying for an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 30 Sep 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. The work plan for the fall semester is done! Okay, let me back up. I'm the project manager for the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 project group in the Workshop in Applied Earth Systems Management II (that's a mouthful). There are 12 members in the group and we ... |
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Thad Miller, Columbia grad student
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29 Sep 2003 |
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| Thad Miller is studying for an MPA in environmental science and policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 29 Sep 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Greetings to anyone who may be reading this. Since you'll be getting to know me over the next week, for better or worse, I'll start off by setting the scene. Who is this person and why is he writing a diary for Grist? Well, I contacted Grist over the summer whil ... |
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Stephen Buchmann, The Bee Works
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26 Sep 2003 |
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| Stephen Buchmann is president and founder of The Bee Works and coauthor of The Forgotten Pollinators. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 26 Sep 2003 TUSCON, Ariz. This is my final entry of the week, my fifth essay on various entomological and conservation-oriented topics. Sherry Bosse at Grist had contacted me after reading the "Small Matters" article by William Stolzenburg in the Spring 2003 issue of The Nature Conservancy Magazine about the lack of at ... |
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Stephen Buchmann, The Bee Works
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25 Sep 2003 |
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| Stephen Buchmann is president and founder of The Bee Works and coauthor of The Forgotten Pollinators. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 25 Sep 2003 TUSCON, Ariz. "The evidence is overwhelming that wild pollinators are declining around the world. Most have already experienced a shrinkage of range. Some have already suffered or face the imminent risk of total extinction. Their ranks are being thinned not just by habitat reduction and other familiar agents o ... |
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Stephen Buchmann, The Bee Works
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24 Sep 2003 |
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| Stephen Buchmann is president and founder of The Bee Works and coauthor of The Forgotten Pollinators. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 24 Sep 2003 TUSCON, Ariz. It bee Wednesday, hump day. For once the telephone call wasn't from an anonymous, fast-talking telemarketer, or someone from my own bank, not realizing I'm already a customer, or Qwest, Sprint, MCI, or one of several other nearly omnipresent telecommunications giants wanting to sign me up. Thankfully ... |
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Stephen Buchmann, The Bee Works
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23 Sep 2003 |
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| Stephen Buchmann is president and founder of The Bee Works and coauthor of The Forgotten Pollinators. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 23 Sep 2003 TUSCON, Ariz. A drilled block of lumber, a.k.a. a bee condo. Illustration: Vera Ming Wong. Where is that colorful tin? Ah, there it is, amongst my stash of assorted world honeys bursting with flavors. I reach up into my kitchen cupboard and pull down one of my favorites, Leatherwood honey from Tasmania, the huge is ... |
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Stephen Buchmann, The Bee Works
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22 Sep 2003 |
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| Stephen Buchmann is president and founder of The Bee Works and coauthor of The Forgotten Pollinators. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 22 Sep 2003 TUSCON, Ariz. It's Monday morning and I've arrived at my office a bit late, feeling rushed and knowing there are plenty of things to do before the day's over. There will be dozens of emails from friends and colleagues to read and formulate cogent replies to without letting them wait and wonder. I've never been a fan ... |
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Allen Hershkowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council
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19 Sep 2003 |
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| Allen Hershkowitz, PhD, is a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 19 Sep 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Because today's Grist diary entry is my last, I'd like begin by thanking all the committed and supportive people who work at Grist, and who've made the magazine into the valuable, widely read environmental information source tha ... |
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Allen Hershkowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council
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18 Sep 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Allen Hershkowitz, PhD, is a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 18 Sep 2003 NEW YORK, N.Y. Today I'm back home. With Hurricane Isabel bearing down on the North Carolina shore, and evacuations aplenty forcing people away from the coasts -- west toward Asheville and its convenient little airport -- I feel lucky to hav ... |
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Allen Hershkowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council
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17 Sep 2003 |
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| Allen Hershkowitz, PhD, is a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 17 Sep 2003 ASHEVILLE, N.C. Today, a dozen of us -- PhDs, biologists, MBAs, industrial ecologists, and media experts -- sat around a large Dogwood Alliance conference table (a converted ping-pong table to be precise) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., working thro ... |
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Allen Hershkowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council
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16 Sep 2003 |
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| Allen Hershkowitz, PhD, is a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 16 Sep 2003 ASHEVILLE, N.C. After an absolutely awful travel day yesterday, I'm down in Asheville, N.C., with NRDC colleagues and grassroots partners meeting to figure out how we can stop the biologically outstanding Cumberland Plateau in the southern Ap ... |
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