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From the peanut gallery
Responses to Bush's climate speech |
Grist |
16 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental movement, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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FOE to McCain: stop pushing for pork for corporate polluters
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David Roberts |
15 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, John McCain, legislation, nuclear power, politics (all these topics) |
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I Spy Something Green
Security firm spied on green groups, documents show |
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11 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:42 PM on 11 Apr 2008 It wasn't all in your imagination: Private security company Beckett Brown International spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s through at least 2000, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. To produce intelligence reports for PR firms and corporations involved in environmental kerfuffles with green groups, BBI operati ... |
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| Topics: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, insanity, national security, news (all these topics) |
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Lieberman-Warner: bad idea
Greenpeace and FOE call Climate Security Act too limited; too slow |
Sean Casten |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Friends of the Earth, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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FOE to Bush: Pull Johnson out
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David Roberts |
02 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, Friends of the Earth, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Palm Leader?
Palm oil may be certified sustainable, some greens skeptical |
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26 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 2:22 PM on 26 Nov 2007 Hoping to quell criticism from biofuel bashers, palm-oil producers have drawn up criteria for certifying their product as sustainable. It's a nice idea, but green group Friends of the Earth has threatened to withdraw its support of the standards, saying that Malaysia and Indonesia -- which together produce nearly 85 percent of the world's palm oil -- are using the voluntary initiative as a ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Friends of the Earth, Indonesia, Malaysia, news (all these topics) |
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Junk the Bunker
Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in wake of S.F. oil spill |
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13 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 12:31 PM on 13 Nov 2007 In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill in San Francisco Bay, green group Friends of the Earth has started a petition drive urging Congress to ban the use of bunker fuel, which is gooey, chock full o' toxins, and slow to break down. The fuel, a byproduct of oil refining, is favored by the shipping industry because it's cheap; it's also "the dirtiest fuel on the planet," ... |
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| Topics: energy, Friends of the Earth, news, oil, Russia, San Francisco, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Fool Me Rice
Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores |
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07 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Fool Me Rice Unapproved GM rice from China pops up in European stores A variety of genetically modified rice from China has made it into Asian specialty stores and Asian restaurants in the E.U. -- and the Europeans ain't too happy about it. A new report from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth claims that some rice noodles imported into France, Germany, and Britain contain a strain of ... |
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| Topics: China, European Union, Friends of the Earth, GMOs, Greenpeace, news (all these topics) |
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A Sight for Besor Eyes
Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes |
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16 Feb 2006 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Thursday, 16 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel The Besor River is just like the 14 other streams that begin in the mountains of the West Bank and flow west toward the Mediterranean Sea across the border bet ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Dead on Arrival
Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes |
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15 Feb 2006 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Wednesday, 15 Feb 2006 Dead Sea, Israel The public beach on the Dead Sea is filled with gleeful voices: Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, heavily accented English, German, and Armenian. Chris Bowser ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Tapped Out
Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes |
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14 Feb 2006 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel Nader El Khatib is the Palestinian director of Friends of the Earth Middle East. During most of the year, he meets with his Israeli and Jordanian counterparts to promote en ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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A Thirst for Knowledge
Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes |
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13 Feb 2006 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Monday, 13 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel A Moldovan, two Bulgarians, and three Canadians walk into the desert. It's like the start of a bad joke, but this is a specific desert -- an extreme one, accordi ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Brent Offerings
Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth chieftain, answers readers' questions |
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24 Sep 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth The word "sustainable" does not interest local decision makers in the least. Is there another way to sell the power elite on the idea and practice of sustainability? -- Mary Halliday, Defiance, Mo. When seeking environmental sustainability, it is important to phrase demands for change in specific terms, with arguments that com ... |
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| Topics: Friends of the Earth, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Go With the FoE
Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth chieftain, answers Grist's questions |
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20 Sep 2004 |
InterActivist |
| With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am president of Friends of the Earth. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Friends of the Earth is a national environmental organization celebrating our 35th anniversary this year. We are part of Friends of the Earth International, with member groups in 68 countri ... |
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| Topics: Friends of the Earth, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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We Love to Fly and It Shows
Britain Mulls Ways to Limit Impact of Aviation Industry |
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17 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| We Love to Fly and It Shows Britain Mulls Ways to Limit Impact of Aviation Industry With the holidays looming, the airports and skies are fuller than ever -- unfortunately for the environment. Air travel is the most environmentally damaging way to get around, with planes using vast quantities of fossil fuels and emitting toxic byproducts and greenhouse gases. The issue is looming larg ... |
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| Topics: Friends of the Earth, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Warm Planet, Cold Shoulder
Bush Met in London by Environmental Protestors |
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19 Nov 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Warm Planet, Cold Shoulder Bush Met in London by Environmental Protestors Protesting the U.S. government's refusal to address the problem of global warming, environmental demonstrators gave President Bush a less-than-warm welcome yesterday as he arrived in London for a state visit. Up to 600 people noisily marched to the U.S. embassy to criticize Bush's ... |
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| Topics: climate, Friends of the Earth, George Bush, Iraq, London, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Privates Exposed
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18 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ... |
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| Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics) |
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