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Lend Me Your Gears Car sharing slowly but surely taking off in cities worldwide		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Lend Me Your Gears Car sharing slowly but surely taking off in cities worldwide Car sharing is gradually gaining ground around the globe, and the future looks bright for a concept once derided as a green fever dream. About 300,000 people worldwide now participate in car sharing; it's taken off especially well in European nations like Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, where the largest company has 2,400 ...
Topics: business, European Union, news, placemaking (all these topics)

U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs Though the U.S. was once a global leader in environmental regulation, that is, to put it mildly, no longer true. Now, the real challenge for many U.S. companies is complying with the stringent standards that govern the European Union market -- if they want to reach its 460 million consumers. Using a "b ...
Topics: business, European Union, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Sunny Size Up World's largest solar power plant planned for Portugal		06 May 2005	Daily Grist
Sunny Size Up World's largest solar power plant planned for Portugal The world's largest solar power station, which would cover over 600 acres and could produce up to 116 megawatts of electricity, is planned for an economically depressed yet sun-drenched corner of Portugal. The almost $550 million project, if approved by the Portuguese government, would effectively reclaim an abandoned fool's-g ...
Topics: energy, European Union, news, Portugal, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt		28 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
You Just Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline Former Iron Curtain may become continent-spanning greenbelt The fabled Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe from the communist countries of Eastern Europe was once one of the most dangerous places on earth. But in the post-Cold War era, a coalition of conservation and community-development groups has ambitious plans to transform it into a string of p ...
Topics: environmental restoration, European Union, news (all these topics)

Mine Sweeper Former journalist Stephanie Roth is battling against a gold mine in Romania	Michelle Nijhuis	21 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Stephanie Danielle Roth. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Apuseni Mountains of west-central Romania are rich in gold, iron, and history. The area's gold once supplied the Roman Empire, and it is home to Rosia Montana, the country's oldest documented mining settlement. But this past is threatened by the present: five years ago, the Romanian government granted rights to a ...
Topics: energy, European Union, mining (all these topics)

Rice-A-Phony China, Europe experiencing illegal GM crop introductions		18 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Rice-A-Phony China, Europe experiencing illegal GM crop introductions Two delicious scandals are brewing over the illegal introduction of genetically modified crops -- rice in China and corn in Europe -- onto the open market. In China, Greenpeacers sounded the GM alarm after buying bags of an "anti-pest" variety of rice, sending them to biotech labs, and finding that some of the grains were genetic ...
Topics: China, European Union, GMOs, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Unilateralism Is Starting to Look Pretty Good, Huh? E.U. battles with U.K. over CO2 emissions		15 Feb 2005	Daily Grist

Topics: climate, European Union, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Receding Blair Line Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets		18 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Receding Blair Line Blair government tried to weaken E.U. climate-change targets The U.K. environmental community is all atwitter over revelations that senior officials in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government tried to remove tough greenhouse-gas reduction targets from the E.U.'s official climate policy. Specifically, they asked that language calling for 50 to 80 percent reductions (from 1990 levels, by ...
Topics: climate, European Union, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Traders to the Cause E.U. launches mandatory carbon-trading market		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Traders to the Cause E.U. launches mandatory carbon-trading market With the new year began a "new era for European business," according to Peter Koster, head of the fledgling European Climate Exchange, the world's first mandatory market for carbon emissions trading. Under the Kyoto Protocol, ratified in October and set to go into force in February, the European Union agreed to reduce its carbon emissions by 8 p ...
Topics: business, climate, European Union (all these topics)

GMOy Vey Battle over GM crops rages on in Europe		30 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
GMOy Vey Battle over GM crops rages on in Europe Europe's ambivalence over genetically modified crops continues to lead to outbreaks of conflict and recrimination. The latest flurry involves a European Union vote on whether to approve a breed of GM corn made by biotech giant Monsanto. Eight countries voted to approve, 12 voted to deny, and five abstained, meaning the corn is a no-go for now. Meanwhile, Friends of the Eart ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics (all these topics)

The Barbarian Invasions Despite vocal opposition, SUVs invade Europe		16 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Barbarian Invasions Despite vocal opposition, SUVs invade Europe European politicians spare no rhetorical flourish in demonstrating their contempt for SUVs and their owners. "I don't want to be like Freud, but SUVs are a projection, a compensating thing," said Rome's transportation commissioner, Mario Di Carlo. Paris Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin called the SUV "a caricature of a car.'' On the street ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
We're Not the Only Country With a Bushmeat Problem E.U. fishing subsidies drive illegal bushmeat trade in West Africa Heavy European Union subsidies for fishing fleets off the coast of West Africa are driving the illegal bushmeat trade in the region, to devastating effect. As Euros eat more of their fish, there's less left for West Africans, who turn to bushmeat -- or the meat of wild animals, including gorilla ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, wildlife (all these topics)

FUV European SUV backlash spreads		07 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
FUV European SUV backlash spreads Beads of sweat are gathering on the foreheads of European automakers, as a backlash against sport utility vehicles spreads across the continent. Several countries have passed or are weighing measures that could hurt SUV sales. London Mayor Ken Livingstone displayed his usual delicacy when he referred to SUV drivers as "complete idiots" an ...
Topics: European Union, France, London, placemaking, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Re-Orient-ing China pressing forward with renewable energy		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Re-Orient-ing China pressing forward with renewable energy Faced with energy shortages and endemic air pollution, China is moving aggressively to develop renewable-energy technologies. Last summer, it announced it would seek to get 12 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020. As it strives to meet this goal, the government is eschewing central planning and instead subsidizing public and private companies, wai ...
Topics: China, European Union, renewable energy (all these topics)

Cornographic European Union Gives Go-Ahead to GM Corn		09 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Cornographic European Union Gives Go-Ahead to GM Corn In a highly symbolic move, the European Union yesterday approved the first genetically modified seeds for planting and sale across E.U. territory, outraging greens and defying public opinion (70 percent of E.U. citizens oppose GM food). The European Commission approved 17 varieties of GM corn developed by U.S. biotech behemoth Monsanto, marking a decisive end ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Clime Against Humanity Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Clime Against Humanity Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change Europe will suffer worse, and sooner, than other parts of the world from climate change, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. The report "pulls together a wealth of evidence that climate change is already happening and having widespread impacts, many of them with substantial economic costs, on people and ecosystems a ...
Topics: climate, European Union (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA Most ordinary crop seeds in the U.S. are contaminated with strands of genetically modified DNA, and unless federal regulations and farm practices are tightened considerably, the entire U.S. food supply will soon contain GM elements, says a report released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scien ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, health, United States (all these topics)

A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite Thirty-two national Green parties united on Saturday to become the European Green Party, predicting that a unified voice will gain them influence and votes in the coming elections. The Greens, now the first pan-European political party, will run under a common banner and with a common age ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, European Union, Germany, green living, Italy, political groups (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands Indigenous peoples are rallying for their lands and their rights this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a major U.N. convention on biodiversity is taking place. Representatives of native peoples are demanding the right to reject development proje ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, green living, Indonesia, Malaysia, placemaking, South America, United Nations (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

Nano, Nano		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nano, Nano A new paint set to go on sale in Europe in March promises to absorb the most noxious gases from automobile exhaust. Invented by British company Millennium Chemicals, Ecopaint contains spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, suspended in a base of polysiloxane (a silicon-based polymer). Hey, wake up, the good part ...
Topics: air pollution, England, European Union, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice?		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice? Soft drinks made in India by PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. contain levels of toxic pesticides -- including lindane, DDT, malathion, and chlorpyrifos -- high enough to cause cancer or immune-system failure over time. Such was the conclusion of an Indian parliamentary report released yesterday, confirming similar findings by the Delhi-based Center for Science and ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a sta ...
Topics: Africa, Algeria, Asia, China, energy, European Union, Gabon, globalization, green living, Japan, Middle East (all these topics)

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