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Kicking Up a Storm Readers talk back about school choice, organic rules, bike commuting, and more		14 Oct 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Storm Front and Center, Main Dish Dear Editor: If we could only make politicians and multinational firms understand the direct relation between forest clear-cutting and floods, we might be able to prevent -- or at least reduce -- the damage caused by tropical storms and hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina is one good example of many stupid decisions leading to ...
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You Otter Be Ashamed Readers talk back about kitty doo-doo, autumn leaves, and more		30 Sep 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Litter Bugged, Ask Umbra, by Umbra Fisk Dear Editor: There's some concern among sea-otter researchers in California that toxoplasmosis from cat feces may be infecting and killing the state's threatened sea-otter population. Toxoplasma gondii is a cat parasite, and the otters may catch Toxoplasma cysts from sea water contaminated by cat feces. This disease could be decrea ...
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And the Eat Goes On Readers talk back about eating local, the cost of organics, and more		09 Sep 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Local Girl Makes Good, InterActivist Dear Editor: Your interview with Louella Hill is timely and enlightening. Kudos to you! As a culture, Americans have drifted far from their relationships to real, honest food. Local farm economies put a face to your food and improve the quality of life for so many. Supporting local farming also means supporting the sustainabil ...
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Dear Jon Letters Readers talk back about poverty, population, and biodiesel		26 Aug 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Forgive Us Our Debts, Soapbox, by Jon Christensen Dear Editor: I was angered by Jon Christensen's assertion that conservationists and environmentalists are sitting on the sidelines while others are supposedly doing all the heavy lifting with regard to alleviating AIDS and poverty in the developing world. Just because an environmental group is not a member of the so-named Campaig ...
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Epistle Whipped Readers talk back about John Roberts, nuclear power, Wal-Mart, and more		05 Aug 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Toadus Operandi, Main Dish, by Emily Gertz Dear Editor: Your piece on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts lacked a bit of perspective. While Roberts may or may not have sympathy for the environmental movement, his rulings in In Re: Cheney (2003) and Sierra Club v. EPA (2004) were right legally, even though they didn't favor the "environmentalist position." ...
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Lawn of a New Day Readers talk back about lawns, eco-vandalism, labor/enviro alliances, and more		22 Jul 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: The Terror of Our Ways, Main Dish, by Michael J. Kavanagh Dear Editor: Thank you for putting the difficult topic of eco-vandalism up front. Unfortunately, it was disappointing to read yet another article calling eco-vandalism "eco-terrorism." The term could hardly be more inaccurate: vandalism damages objects; terrorism kills people. As a fast-g ...
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Jaw of Averages Readers talk back about eco-friendly cities, eco-friendly clothes, and more		24 Jun 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: City City Bang Bang, Main Dish, by Amanda Griscom Little Dear Editor: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels definitely deserves props for pulling cities together in common cause to achieve the Kyoto Protocol. However, Nickels has a huge blind spot in his own city: actually reducing production of greenhouse gases. His investment in highways is taking Seattle in the opposite ...
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Shear Madness Readers talk back on shaving, Saudis, nappies, and more		10 Jun 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Stubble Trouble, Ask Umbra, by Umbra Fisk Dear Editor: I wanted to thank you for your recent column regarding environmentally responsible shaving. To be honest, straight razors scare the bejeebies out of me. However, it's long seemed to be the only reasonable option. Your column has given me the push I needed to give it a shot, and the advice to gradually phase it in starting on the e ...
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I Want to Ride My Freecycle Freecycle founder, fans, and defectors talk back		27 May 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Our article on Freecycle's growing pains, by Matt Weiser, elicited a torrent of passionate response, including a lengthy letter from Freecycle founder Deron Beal. Here's a sample of the commentary, and there's a whole lot more posted in Gristmill, our blog. Dear Editor: After having read your article about Freecycle, I felt compelled to write to you. I have a real issue with how so ...
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Taking Umbrage Readers accuse Umbra of missing the mark, and more		20 May 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Epistled Off, Ask Umbra, by Umbra Fisk Dear Editor: I work for a consumer-product company (apparel, not cleaning products), and I know the impact of emails and letters from customers. I think Umbra missed the boat by not suggesting that the consumer send letters by mail, as well as by email. Emails are really easy to miss in the course of a normal business day, but letters are not. The vo ...
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Oh Art, Where Art Thou? Readers talk back about art, our climate quiz, and how much they adore us		29 Apr 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Imagine That, Soapbox, by Bill McKibben Dear Editor: "Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The goddamn operas?" Bill McKibben is asking the right question, but looking in all the wrong places. The concern for subjects such as global warming and peak oil is not reflected in the corporate media or in corporate-funded arts institutions. McKi ...
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Going Nuclear Umbra's N-power column and Grist's giveaway raise ire and interest		15 Apr 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Half-Life Is Beautiful?, Ask Umbra, by Umbra Fisk Dear Editor: Embracing nuclear power in an attempt to avoid the global-warming implications of reliance on coal is like taking up heroin to avoid an addiction to crack. While disregarding the known greenhouse-gas costs associated with mining, milling, constructing, and decommissioning of nuclear plants, Umbra Fisk parrots th ...
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Grist, You Trippin' Readers talk back about Lakoff, immature humor, homeschoolers, and more		08 Apr 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Don't Think of the Environment, Muckraker, by Amanda Griscom Little Dear Editor: First, full disclosure: I am a former grad student of George Lakoff's and was a research associate at the Rockridge Institute for several months. That should make my biases obvious. Amanda Griscom Little's March 29 piece about Lakoff's work with the Green Group provides some inter ...
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Mountains and Mo' Spills Backchat from Earth First! and ExxonMobil, and a response from Riki Ott		01 Apr 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It., Daily Grist Dear Editor: Thanks for runnin' a blurb on Mountain Justice Summer on your fine website. The only thing is that the groups involved with Mountain Justice Summer, which include Katuah Earth First! and Coal River Mountain Watch, have specifically said we will not be engaging in property destruction (aka monkeyw ...
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Bad Chemistry and Good Vibes An InterActivist corrects the record and devoted readers ladle on the love -- some of them, anyway		25 Mar 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: It All Comes Out in the Walsh, InterActivist Dear Editor: I would like to set the record straight. Bill Walsh identified the American Chemical Society as one of 1,000 "trade associations defending the rights of polluters." Walsh said he has a collection of "voodoo dolls" representing the "flacks" fo ...
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How Do We Suck? You Counted the Ways Readers talk back about wind power, busty blondes, and annoying things we wrote		11 Feb 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Don't Fear the Reapers, Main Dish Dear Editor: The notion that the environmental community has no peer-reviewed research journal, as you and Shellenberger and Nordhaus allege, is just plain silly. There are dozens. Conservation Biology, Environmental Biology, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution are just three that pop into mind. And more s ...
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The Christians Write Readers talk back about the Christian-right take on environmentalism		21 Jan 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. "The Godly Must Be Crazy," Glenn Scherer's article on right-wing Christian evangelical politicians and their hostility toward environmental protections, elicited a mighty flood of mail. Here we print a sampling of letters, followed by a response from Scherer. Dear Editor: I am a former Republican, former Christian (go figure that one), and have become a passio ...
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O Brawling Love, O Loving Hate Readers talk back on porn, radicalism, Christmas trees, and more		05 Jan 2005	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Norwegian Wood, Main Dish, by Lissa Harris Dear Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you! I never miss my Daily Grist, but most of what I read depresses the hell out of me. Your story on Fuck for Forest is the first thing I've seen in a long time that actually gives me hope for the future. I was charmed by the whole idea, and by the beautiful young people maki ...
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Conventional Foolishness Readers sound off on the Republican National Convention, barbecue, and more		24 Sep 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. Sippin' on Spin and Juice Re: Methinks They Doth Not Protest at All, Muckraker, by Amanda Griscom Dear Editor: I was astonished to read in Amanda Griscom's column that many major environmental groups opted out of the protests in New York City against the Republican National Convention. By siding with the Republican-propagated view that these protests were ...
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Potpourricycle Readers sound off on 'sustainable' buildings that ain't, Clinton's record, and more		03 Aug 2004	Letters
Readers sound off on "sustainable" buildings that ain't, Clinton's record, and more 03 Aug 2004 Write your own letter. Semanticable Re: Lofty Ambitions, Powers That Be, by Amanda Griscom Dear Editor: I absolutely applaud Boyle and Brown's efforts to create such an amazing living space. Their commitment to reusing materials is exactly the direction that construction, as well as industry, should be headed. My point of polite criticism concerns semantics. With the te ...
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Write Your Cake and Eat It Too Readers sound off on eco-jobs, old growth, and more		25 Jun 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. Kicking Peterson's Tongass Re: Shake Dat Tongass, Daily Grist Dear Editor: U.S. Representative John Peterson (R-Penn.), who commented that old-growth forests don't support the kind of wildlife he and his fellow hunters like, is right. That's because they live in Pennsylvania where (presumably) their prey is the White-tailed deer, a species that thrives on the edges of mature e ...
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Letter My People Go Readers sound off on Ronald Reagan, animal testing, and more		15 Jun 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. Ashok to the System Re: Tax On, Tax Off, Muckraker, by Amanda Griscom Dear Editor: If the NRDC's Ashok Gupta really thinks we need leaders who can tell Americans why higher gas prices are good for them, then Gupta needs to go intern for some mayor's campaign somewhere. Or pick up a day-after-election newspaper and see what's happening to school levies. In other words, get rea ...
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Tax Me? Tax You! Readers sound off on gas taxing, cow poop, and more		28 May 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. A Real Beal Feel Re: Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now, Main Dish, by Michelle Nijhuis Dear Editor: Deron Beal here, founder guy of the Freecycle Network. I've read a whole lot of articles about us and have been interviewed for even more. The only other article that even got close to Ms. Nijhuis' "hitting the nail on the head" in tone and content was the one in The New ...
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The Capital Gang Readers sound off on capitalism, bottled water, and, yet again, the Sierra Club election		14 May 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. From the Hawken's Mouth Re: From Here to Economy, Main Dish, by Stan Cox Dear Editor: I think Stan Cox's piece is wonderful and I am glad to see it published. Entropy and thermodynamics are consistently excised from mainstream economics and it is good to see them re-injected. Nevertheless, the author has made a rather odd and unusual error in charact ...
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Sci-fight Readers sound off on manipulated science, Sierra Club electioneering, and more		30 Apr 2004	Letters
Write your own letter. Back to School, Craig Re: Craig's List, Main Dish, by Amanda Griscom Dear Editor: Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson claims that abuse of science is one of the most "misbegotten" criticisms of the Bush administration. In the same Grist interview, he illustrated just how the administration commits such abuses. In defense of the administration's use o ...
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