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Buy or Beware And other words from readers		17 Jan 2003	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: This Is Your Brain on SUVs, Daily Grist Dear Editor: I think all these anti-SUV ads are great at educating the public on the environmental atrocities of these gas-guzzling vehicles, but I question their overall effectiveness. They may prevent a small number of people from buying SUVs and make some current SUV owners feel guilty, but many people believe they need SUVs for their lifestyles. Guilt isn't a major f ...
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No Comment And other words from readers		19 Dec 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Point. Click. Ignore., Daily Grist Dear Editor: I was appalled that the U.S. Department of Interior is ignoring email appeals now. However, email filtering can be defeated: If the criteria for tossing an email were that it looks just like 80,000 other emails with the exception of the signature, then one can write software to produce email appeals that are relatively unique. The trick is finding out which criteri ...
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Water in the Courts And other words from readers		22 Nov 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Hitting the Bottle, Main Dish, by Keith Schneider Dear Editor: We would like to thank you for the article by Keith Schneider. Many of the people of Michigan have never heard of Mecosta County. They have no idea that this is their fight also. My husband and I are members of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation; we believe our water is worth protecting. For the new public awareness this article will ...
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Grow For It And other words from readers		24 Oct 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Old MacDonald Had an Idea, Global Citizen, by Elizabeth Sawin Dear Editor: Elizabeth Sawin's article on sustainable agriculture was excellent, but it left out a key piece of the efficiency equation. Today's farmers not only compete against other farmers in the United States who are subject to U.S. policy, but against all farmers worldwide. Even without expanded definitions of efficiency, our farmers are up aga ...
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Blowing Bubbles And other words from readers		26 Sep 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: I'd Like My C, Under the Sea, Daily Grist Dear Editor: The article implies that storing carbon in air pockets under the sea floor is the definition of carbon sequestration. However, the technique is just one of many ways to sequester carbon. Carbon sequestration refers to any way that carbon is removed from the atmosphere. A common carbon sequestration technique for soils is reduced tillage, which keeps ca ...
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Vegetable Shortening And other words from readers		12 Sep 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Better Living Through French Fries, Main Dish, by Hal Clifford Dear Editor: This is a great story and I'm glad that more folks will be educated about biodiesel, but you missed an even better point. There is another alternative to processed biodiesel: straight vegetable oil. No need to add lye or methanol or anything else. Just filter and pour it into the tank. We did a simple conversion to our diesel ...
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Rebirth of the Cool And other words from readers		23 Aug 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Coolant, Ask Umbra, by Umbra Fisk Dear Editor: I am a big fan of Ask Umbra. I used to do a column like this for USA Today, and yours is much more interesting than mine was. (Of course, I was handicapped by being limited to one-syllable words.) But Umbra goofed a couple times in her first answer in the most recent column. She wrote, "With a few exceptions, auto air conditioners use chlorofluorocarb ...
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Not-So-Jolly Green Giants And other words from readers		13 Aug 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Responding to "Power Shift," our special edition on local initiatives to combat global warming in the absence of federal leadership, Grist readers waxed pretty warm, themselves. Ross Gelbspan's piece on the failure of big-name national environmental groups to take the lead on climate change drew praise from local activists -- and criticism from some of the big-name groups in question. Those lett ...
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A Man, a Plan, a ... And other words from readers		19 Jul 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Alternative Energy Crisis, Powers That Be, by Amanda Griscom Dear Editor: The author takes the position that the Bush Energy Plan is solely focused on "Big Oil" and "King Coal," particularly with respect to tax breaks lavished on various forms of energy. Here are the facts: Value of the tax incentives for oil and gas proposed in the Bush Energy Plan: $0 Value of the tax incentives fo ...
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Whale Watcher Watching And other words from readers		17 Jun 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Whale Killers, Daily Grist Dear Editor: As people who live near the sea and watch both orca whales and their watchers several times each week during the summer months, we were waiting for this to happen. As we suspected, big-money interests are trying to push the little guys out of the whale-watching business. But let us tell you the truth about whale watching up here in the Gulf Islands. The large boat ...
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Violent objections		28 May 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: The Violence of the Lambs, Daily Grist Dear Editor: The item about the first organization dedicated to combating eco-terrorism was rather disturbing by virtue of the manner in which it mocked industry for having funded such an endeavor and the way in which it glamorized the eco-terrorist with David Barbarash's asinine quote. What we have to remember is that in retaliating against people and companies for exercising the rights they h ...
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Andes Dandies		29 Apr 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Now You See Them, Now You Don't, Main Dish, by Ross Wehner Dear Editor: As an educator in a Canadian school, I was very interested in this article. I had the pleasure of traveling in South America in the early 1980s. The beauty of the Andes and the surrounding jungle has stayed with me in the years since my travels, so I was shocked to learn what the future might hold for this region. What distresses me the most is the rapidity of thes ...
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Nuking It Out		05 Apr 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Safety Dance, Part One, Main Dish, by Shelley Smithson Dear Editor: I have been religiously reading your spin on environmental news for about a year. I have gotten some good information from your mostly one-sided publication. You have a right to spread your information this way. It's the American way. But I cannot sit here and allow you to blatantly scare people about nuclear power. Nuclear power is by far the most efficient and reliabl ...
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Beating Bushes and Dead Horses		14 Mar 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Responding to Mathew Gross' piece, Grist readers did anything but beat around the bush. Gross argued that Bush's abysmal environmental record proved that Gore would have been a far different -- and better -- president, notwithstanding the claims of the Naderites. That charge clearly touched a nerve with our readers. From eulogies to Rush Limbaugh comparisons, Gross got it all; a sampling follows. Dear Editor: The Al Gore who ...
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The Good Life		04 Mar 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Katie Alvord, author, Dispatches Dear Editor: My, how I enjoyed this "how-to" series. Although not a lifestyle I think I can completely embrace (at a guess I'm at least 30 years older than Alvord and ... ah ... not quite as fit), it helps me imagine additional ways to live by my principles. Ann S. Lamb Knoxville, Tenn. Re: Katie Alvord, author, Dispatches Dear Editor: Hooray for Katie Alvord. It takes a brave writer to pub ...
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That's Some Good Coffee		04 Feb 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Ashley Parkinson, Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign, Dispatches Dear Editor: Ashley Parkinson's column has inspired me, my wife, and a friend to place our first-ever order for shade-grown coffee. After reading her column, all three of us are committed to buying environmentally friendly coffee. Please pass along our kudos for the fine piece of journalism. David Veenstra Grand Rapids, Mich. Re: Ashley Parkinson, Northwest Shade C ...
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Bah-Lomborg!		14 Jan 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. We received an unprecedented number of responses to Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark, our special edition on Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist. As usual, Grist readers were impassioned and opinionated. What follows is a sampling of their letters -- largely positive, occasionally scathing, and frequently informative. Dear Editor: I don't know if Bjorn Lomborg got his science right or if he's blowing smoke, but when he ...
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The Season of Giving		08 Jan 2002	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: What Now?, Main Dish Dear Editor: The U.S. response to the Red Cross was wonderful, and that's great. But many, many other do-good organizations are on such a starvation diet they're in imminent danger of expiring. Please tell everyone asking for more donations to the Red Cross to think twice about the homeless and needy who weren't at Ground Zero -- who may not have food to eat or a place to go this winter -- not to mention for m ...
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An Anti-Globalization Movement by Any Other Name		09 Nov 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Your letters on how environmentalism will regroup in the wake of Sept. 11 made it clear that the movement is still alive and kicking. And other letters -- on hybrid vehicles, eco-agriculture, globalization -- show that Grist readers, at least, are still thinking about the whole environmental picture. Re: Visualize Whirled Peace, Daily Grist Dear Editor: I want to quietly protest the use of the phrase anti-glo ...
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It's a Jungle Out There		21 Sep 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Un-Happy Meal, Arts and Minds, by Elizabeth Grossman Dear Editor: Eric Schlosser deserves a medal for this book, which everyone, especially fast food addicts, should read. I read the book, but must admit that I skipped the chapters on the slaughterhouse industry. I feared that things at the stockyards hadn't changed very much since Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906. Helen Real Dolores, Colo. Re: Patricia Ross, cit ...
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Give Us Hybrids, or Give Us Death		22 Aug 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Do Good Dear Editor: I disagree with the action to dissuade Ford from making hybrid SUVs. I live in western Colorado and would very much like to own a hybrid car for environmental reasons; however, tiny two-door, lightweight cars that sit about six inches off the ground are useless during Rocky Mountain winters and in rural areas. Amy Hadden Marsh Glenwood Springs, Colo. Because S ...
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It Drives Them Crazy		29 Jun 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Dear Editor: Oooooh it makes my blood boil. I'd like to email Stan Meager a piece of my mind. I hope that every automaker takes a cue from Ford, and they all start upping their donations to environmental causes. Eventually folks like Stan Meager will be seen "thumbing it" down the rural highways and begging for generic brand spark plugs! Lara Schuchat Guam Re: What Would Jesus Drive?, Main Dish, by Bill McKibben Dear Ed ...
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Do It for the Little Enviros And other words from readers		11 May 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Zed, Zed. Dear Editor: Have you thought about putting your cartoon, Zed, in schools? I think that would be a wonderful idea. After all, I am a 7th (soon to be 8th) grader and I know what children of my own age like. Some kids would really enjoy it. I have seen my fair share of non-environmentalists in my community, my brothers being some of them. Trust me, being a little environmentalist myself ...
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Here's the Scoop And other words from readers		17 Apr 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association, Dispatches Dear Editor: After reading through your website, I've decided to give up my favorite ice cream, Starbucks Coffee Almond Fudge. I cannot, in good conscience, eat it and continue to nurse my baby, knowing that the list of ingredients is withholding information from me -- doesn't let me know that the ice cream contains genetically modified foods and hormo ...
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Greener Meadows And other words from readers		28 Mar 2001	Letters
Write your own letter. Re: The Noble Citizen, Soapbox, by Robert Braille Dear Editor: This is the first time in my life that I've felt moved to cry upon hearing that someone I didn't know personally had died. I feel that I've come to know Donella Meadows in the past couple of years. Many times I have praised her writing, her clear thinking, and her easy style; I regularly sent her articles to my friends. I will miss knowing that she ...
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