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Iceland of Make-Believe Little-known facts from a country on the edge of your consciousness	Katharine Wroth	26 Apr 2005	Counter Culture
39,756 -- area of Iceland, in square miles1 39,728 -- area of Kentucky, in square miles2 293,966 -- population of Iceland3 4,117,827 -- population of Kentucky2 10 -- percentage of Icelanders who believe elves "definitely" exist4 0 -- number of successful elf surveys conducted in Kentucky 11.5 -- percentage of Iceland that is covered by glaciers1 3,240 -- square mil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Greenpeace, Iceland, Kentucky, oceans (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)

Operation Squander As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response	Amanda Griscom Little	16 Feb 2005	Muckraker
It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ...
Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Greenpeace Gives Peace a Chance Greenpeace shifts tactics as it looks ahead to four more years of Bush	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Feb 2005	Muckraker
At a time when environmental groups are facing questions about their own mortality and rethinking strategies for surviving Dubya's second term, Greenpeace USA -- the environmental group best known for in-your-face, laws-be-damned direct action -- is getting in touch with its inner Gandhi. Greenpeace rabble-rousing in days of yore. Greenpeace/John Cunningham. ...
Topics: Greenpeace, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Babbling Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers readers' questions		04 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Richard Brooks, Greenpeace Canada. Are there alternatives to Kleenex that a corporation could switch to in volume?�� -- Auden Schendler, Aspen, Colo. There are many alternatives to Kleenex and other tissue products that come from ancient forests, including products by Cascades, Wood Wyant, and Marcal. These products are available across the U.S. and Canada (and many other countries as well), and are ma ...
Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

By Hook or By Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers Grist's questions		31 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Richard Brooks. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am a forest campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Greenpeace campaigns in 35 different countries using lobbying, science, public education, markets mobilization, and peaceful protest to bring about increased environmenta ...
Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Terminal With Extreme Prejudice Serge Dedina sends a dispatch from the fight against a Mexican LNG terminal		15 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Serge Dedina is cofounder and executive director of WiLDCOAST, an international conservation team located in Imperial Beach, Calif., just north of the Mexico-U.S. border. He is the author of Saving the Gray Whale, a book based on the three years he lived in the gray-whale lagoons of Baja California. � Friday, 15 Oct 2004 IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. From the bluff overlooking Playas de Tijuana a ...
Topics: Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, Mexico, natural gas, United States (all these topics)

Sweet Chile O' Mine Greenpeace Activist in Chile Tells It Like She Sees It		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, dams, education, energy, Greenpeace, hydropower, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, South America, wilderness (all these topics)

Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Ding Dong, the Plant Is Dead Germany Shutters First N-Plant in Beginning of End of Atomic Industry Germany began its historic phaseout of all atomic energy by shutting down the first of 19 nuclear power plants today. The Stade plant, in a city of the same name, had been open since 1972, making it the nation's second-oldest atomic energy facility. Anti-nuclear activists celebrated i ...
Topics: France, Germany, Greenpeace, nuclear power, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Take It or Leavitt Hillary Clinton threatens to block Bush's EPA nominee	Amanda Griscom	10 Sep 2003	Muckraker
As the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks looms, the Bush administration is facing opprobrium for having deceived the American public about possible air-quality concerns at Ground Zero. Behind the scenes, the issue has become somewhat bizarrely entwined with another hot topic: the confirmation of Republican Gov. Michael Leavitt of Utah as the new U.S. EPA administrator. What's ...
Topics: Greenpeace, Hillary Clinton, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Label of Love		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Label of Love European lawmakers today adopted new food-labeling rules that could pave the way for lifting a European Union-wide ban on genetically modified (GM) products. The new rules will require labels for food and animal feed containing at least 0.9 percent GM ingredients. Though the move may lead to the opening of E.U. markets to GM foods, environmentalists and consumer advocates welcomed the change be ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, green living, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Lake Woe-be-here		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Lake Woe-be-here The pristine environment around Lake Baikal in Siberia, the world's deepest freshwater lake, is endangered by a joint Russian-Chinese plan to build an oil pipeline through the region, Greenpeace warned yesterday. A month ago, Russian and Chinese oil companies signed a 25-year deal to pump 30 million tons of Russian crude oil to China every year, alo ...
Topics: China, commercial and industry organizations, Greenpeace, lakes, Russia, United Nations (all these topics)

Chop Shop		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Shop The environmental policies of the Bush administration are endangering our nation's woodlands, according to a coalition of environmental groups that yesterday released a list of the 10 most at-risk forests. The coalition, which included Greenpeace and the National Forest Protection Alliance, assessed the risks po ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition Hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest the national government's poor handling of the Prestige oil tanker spill, which has been labeled the worst environmental disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of chartered buses brought in protesters from Ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

Glow Worms		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Glow Worms It's been a busy week when it comes to nuclear security. Here in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to overhaul its management of the nation's atomic power plants in response to concern that it failed to rapidly detect potentially disastrous damage to a reactor in Ohio. Yesterday, the NRC adopted almost all 50 recommendations that s ...
Topics: energy, Greenpeace, health, New York, nuclear power, Ohio, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Very Slow Food Movement		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Very Slow Food Movement After months of heated debate, the 15 farm ministers of the European Union agreed last week on labeling rules for genetically modified (GM) food and animal feed. Under the plan, all food and feed containing 0.9 percent GM ingredients or more would need to be identified as such; below that threshold, no labeling would be required. Pro-GM food ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Greenpeace, international government agencies (all these topics)

Week Links		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Week Links The first week of the World Summit on Sustainable Development has seen a mix of surprising twists and predictable problems. On the surprising end: Two very different organizations, Greenpeace International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, have agreed to join forces to combat climate change. The two groups plan to work together to convince governments to create an intern ...
Topics: climate, Greenpeace, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!		02 Aug 2002	Dispatches
Kristin Casper is a campaigner for Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!. She works with schools, cities, and the state of California to invest in clean energy and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 02 Aug 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Thursday nights are the start of my weekend. I kick them off with salsa dancing at Club Cocomo, an island-like oasis tucked away in the industrial sector of San Fran ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics)

Two Green Peas in a Pod		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Two Green Peas in a Pod It's a rare day when Greenpeace and the Bush administration see eye to eye, but the environmental organization is siding with the White House in a fight against mahogany importers. Seven such importers have sued the administration for holding up 12 shipments of Brazilian mahogany, which have been stranded on U.S. docks since last winter due to concerns that they may violate Bra ...
Topics: Brazil, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States (all these topics)

Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!		01 Aug 2002	Dispatches
Kristin Casper is a campaigner for Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!. She works with schools, cities, and the state of California to invest in clean energy and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 01 Aug 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Do you remember one of Greenpeace's oldest ships, the Peacock, that tracked Russian whalers and stopped them from slaughtering hundreds of whales? Did you know tha ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics)

Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!		31 Jul 2002	Dispatches
Kristin Casper is a campaigner for Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!. She works with schools, cities, and the state of California to invest in clean energy and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 31 Jul 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. I read the newspaper every morning, but try to avoid the stories from the White House, which tend to make me nauseous. Instead, I go straight to the Bay Area sect ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics)

Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!		30 Jul 2002	Dispatches
Kristin Casper is a campaigner for Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!. She works with schools, cities, and the state of California to invest in clean energy and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 30 Jul 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Last night, while hanging around with my coworkers (literally "hanging around" -- we were at an action-climb training session), I was impressed all over a ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics)

Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!		29 Jul 2002	Dispatches
Kristin Casper is a campaigner for Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!. She works with schools, cities, and the state of California to invest in clean energy and protect the climate and future generations from global warming. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 29 Jul 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif I like Monday mornings. As a Clean Energy Now! campaigner for Greenpeace, I spend most of my weekends recruiting new volunteers, getting people to sign postcards, or ...
Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics)

The Name of the Haze		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Name of the Haze The U.S. National Weather Service has long maintained the tradition of giving names to hurricanes, but in Toronto, the environmental organization Greenpeace is taking matters one step further by naming excessively smoggy days after national politicians. The program is designed to call attention to the failure of the Canadian government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and shame politicia ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Greenpeace (all these topics)

A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing Does access to information protect us, or put us at risk? That question is at the heart of an environmental debate that's taken on a different shape -- and different stakes -- since Sept. 11. At issue is the public's right to know about chemical plants and other factories manufacturing hazardous materials. Environmentalists maintain that people have a right to know about haz ...
Topics: business, Greenpeace, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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