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Lippman Smacking Good Steve Lippman, green investment expert, answers readers' questions |
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11 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Lippman, Trillium Asset Management. What criteria do you use to make the ultimate yay or nay decision on what constitutes a socially responsible corporation? -- Maire McDermott, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada We're in a little different boat than SRI mutual funds, because as an asset manager we offer individual investment portfolios to our clients and thus can customize their accounts to ref ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Not Just Lippman Service Steve Lippman, green investment expert, answers Grist's questions |
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07 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Steve Lippman. What work do you do? I'm the senior analyst on the Social Research and Advocacy team at Trillium Asset Management, a Boston-based investment management company dedicated solely to socially responsible investing. The biggest part of my job is actively engaging with companies we hold to encourage them to improve their social and environmental performance. So for instance, we played ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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The Way You Move Brenda Way, artistic dance director, answers readers' questions |
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04 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Brenda Way, ODC. What do you think should be the role of artists and performers in the face of injustice, environmental and otherwise? Do you believe, as Paul Robeson said, that "The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery"? -- Name not provided I think the artist's role is to alert us to whatever that individual artist is passionate about. Being awake and responsive is the precond ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Nobody Puts Brenda in a Corner! Brenda Way, artistic dance director, answers Grist's questions |
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28 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Brenda Way. What work do you do? I founded ODC (originally the Oberlin Dance Collective) 35 years ago as a multidimensional arts organization -- that is to say, not just for dance jocks. We moved to the Bay Area from Ohio and now own 33,000 square feet of dancing/teaching/performing space in San Francisco. My primary time is spent as artistic director of the 10-member resident contemporary ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Greenwalshing Bill Walsh, founder of the Healthy Building Network, answers readers' questions |
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25 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Bill Walsh, Healthy Building Network. How do you determine what should be classified as a "worst in class" building material? -- Name not provided A three-pronged analysis: First, is there a serious environmental problem associated with the material? Second, by focusing on that material, would we contribute to achieving the goals of the larger environmental-health movement? Thi ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, placemaking (all these topics) |
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It All Comes Out in the Walsh Bill Walsh, founder of the Healthy Building Network, answers Grist's questions |
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21 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Bill Walsh. What work do you do? I'm the founder and national coordinator of the Healthy Building Network. How does it relate to the environment? The Healthy Building Network is the only organization dedicated to linking green building strategies to the specific goals of the environmental-health movement. Our goal is to shift market demand in the building and construction indu ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, placemaking (all these topics) |
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A-Hundting We Will Go Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers readers' questions |
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18 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner. In your experience, what is the greatest obstacle to smart urban development? In other words, what is the biggest reason it's not being done in more places? -- Tommi Makila, Des Moines, Iowa Public policy and regulations -- national, state, and local. At all levels, the funding of roads and highways fuels sprawl. At the local level (and this is true fo ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics) |
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Hundting Season Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers Grist's questions |
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14 Feb 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Karen Hundt. What work do you do? I am the director of the Planning & Design Studio in Chattanooga, Tenn. We are a division of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, but the design studio focuses on downtown and riverfront redevelopment. How does it relate to the environment? The biggest environmental issue facing this country is the way we're building our cities -- suburban spr ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics) |
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Babbling Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers readers' questions |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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By Hook or By Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers Grist's questions |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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A Bouquet of Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers readers' questions |
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28 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico? -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Days of Wine and Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers Grist's questions |
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24 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Heavens to Betsy -- Come in, Betsy Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers readers' questions |
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21 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Betsy Rosenberg, host of EcoTalk. How can you, and others in the media, break down the myths perpetuated about climate change and inform the general public, our decision makers, and other journalists about the threat of global warming? -- Nadia Malley, Arlington, Va. Great question and of course one of our most pressing challenges at the moment from both a human and a media perspe ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics) |
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Radioactivist Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers Grist's questions |
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18 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Betsy Rosenberg. What work do you do? I've gone from 20 years of general news reporting and anchoring for the CBS Radio network to creating an environmental radio minute to hosting and producing a one-hour nationally syndicated eco-awareness program called EcoTalk. I transitioned from journalist to activist a few years ago when, in the wake of 9/11, I decided that "saving the planet one sound bite at ... |
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| Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics) |
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Me Fred, You Jane Fred Thompson, CEO of Jane Goodall Institute, answers readers' questions |
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14 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Fred Thompson, Jane Goodall Institute. How do you convince someone who lives in the U.S. and has never seen a chimpanzee outside the zoo about the importance of saving natural habitat in a place they'll probably never see? -- Name not provided It's true many people don't "get it" and aren't moved by the conservation arguments that we find so compelling -- even the arguments that ap ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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As Goodall as It Gets Fred Thompson, CEO of Jane Goodall Institute, answers Grist's questions |
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10 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Fred Thompson. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president and CEO of the Jane Goodall Institute. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Our mission is to inspire and empower people to take informed, compassionate action to make the world a better place for people, animals, and the environment. F ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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To Helvarg and Back David Helvarg, marine activist, answers readers' questions |
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07 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| David Helvarg, Blue Frontier Campaign. What advice do you have for federal resource-agency scientists trying to do the right thing under this administration? -- Mike Kelly, McKinleyville, Calif. Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished. It's not that government researche ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans (all these topics) |
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Come Helvarg and High Water David Helvarg, marine activist, answers Grist's questions |
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03 Jan 2005 |
InterActivist |
| David Helvarg. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president of Blue Frontier Campaign. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Blue Frontier works to strengthen America's ocean constituency by building unity among seaweed (marine grassroots) activists at the local, regional, and national levels by providin ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans (all these topics) |
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Dreamwork Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers readers' questions |
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17 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Kevin Doyle, The Environmental Careers Organization. Which environment-related fields do you see growing fastest right now? What type of jobs do you see declining in the future?    -- Name not provided, Nashville, Tenn. There are several answers to this question posted on the ECO website. If you go to our Career Tips section and click on the one for September 2004, you'll find detail ... |
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| Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Hire Learning Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers Grist's questions |
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13 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Kevin Doyle. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm one of two national program directors at The Environmental Careers Organization (authors of the new book The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference -- see below). At least, that's my current title. I've worked for ECO since 1984, and in that time I've been Pacific Northwest regional director, national general manager, director ... |
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| Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Hamburger Patty Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers readers' questions |
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10 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Patricia Lovera, Public Citizen. Scientifically, what is wrong with irradiated food? I haven't seen any studies indicating illness or unhealthy effects. The articles I did read indicated that some foods could be preserved without refrigeration safely and longer. -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. Concerns center around the potential health effects of eating chemical byproducts created in the process o ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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All You Need Is Lovera Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers Grist's questions |
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06 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Patricia Lovera With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am deputy director of the Energy and Environment Program at Public Citizen. We have campaigns on energy (fighting nuclear power and electricity deregulation), against the privatization of our water supplies, and on food safety (fighting food irradiation and other methods of industrialized food production that negatively aff ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Swimming With Parks John Emory Parks, international marine expert, answers readers' questions |
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03 Dec 2004 |
InterActivist |
| John Emory Parks of NOAA. What specific actions would you recommend for a family with four kids who really want to make a positive difference in their environment? -- Debbie Potts, Perry Hall, Md. Here are several minor things that we do at home with our kids, Debbie. While they are minor, they all really add up! I should mention that they are also things I did growing up. Plant and car ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oceans (all these topics) |
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NOAA's Parks John Emory Parks, international marine expert, answers Grist's questions |
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29 Nov 2004 |
InterActivist |
| What work do you do? I'm an international affairs specialist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal oceans agency. How does it relate to the environment? NOAA oversees a number of environmental duties in the U.S., from monitoring climate and forecasting weather to managing fish stocks within U.S. waters and protecting critical sites through a system of marine sanc ... |
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| Topics: InterActivist, interview, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oceans (all these topics) |
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Sze Matters Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers readers' questions |
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19 Nov 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Julie Sze, professor in American Studies at U.C.-Davis Where do you see the environmental-justice movement heading in the future? -- Max Weintraub, Oakland, Calif. Max, Max, Max! Max Weintraub is a friend and colleague of mine, who has founded an excellent organization called Environmental Justice and Health Union. This question is huge, and many actors will be involved in answering it: commun ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics) |
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