Grist | Topics | 84 Results

RESULTS		Results 76 – 84 of 84
Page:1 2 3 4
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Big Plan on Campus Universities combat climate change	Shelley Smithson	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
"Do it in the dark!" That's the rallying cry at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., where an ambitious campaign is under way to cut greenhouse gases. Sure, climate change activism -- conserving energy, using renewable fuels, and constructing eco-friendly buildings -- isn't as sexy as marching against Vietnam or burning bras. But in an increasingly warm world, working to reverse global climate chang ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, United States (all these topics)

Teaching Our Children Well		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Teaching Our Children Well The three Rs could soon include "renewable" if Massachusetts has its way. Concerned about rising energy costs and student health, the state is offering financial incentives to districts to build environmentally friendly, health-conscious "green schools." Through a partnership with the Renewable Energy Trust, districts are being encouraged to make use of technologi ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, renewable energy (all these topics)

Don't Lose Hope		08 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Don't Lose Hope For marine life, Mt. Hope Bay might be the most inappropriately named place on Earth. In the 13-square-mile stretch of water straddling Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 15 fish species have all but disappeared over the last decade, leading some fishers to describe the area as a dead zone. Some scientists blame the deaths on Brayton Point, New England's largest fossil fuel plant, ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Election Day Is Green Day		24 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Election Day Is Green Day If the voting record is any measure, most Americans are green at heart when it comes to conservation. Last year, voters approved spending $1.7 billion for parks and open spaces, according to a tally released today by the Trust for Public Land and the Land Trust Alliance. Seventy percent of 196 local ballot measures in 24 states were given the thumbs up. The fine people of Massachusetts ha ...
Topics: land stewardship, Massachusetts, politics (all these topics)

States of Disgrace		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
States of Disgrace New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont may postpone for four years a requirement that automakers increase sales of electric cars to improve air quality. Two years ago, the states adopted California's standard, which mandates that by next year, 8 percent of cars sold must be much cleaner than current cars and another 2 percent must be entirely emissions-free (i.e. ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, electric vehicles, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont (all these topics)

Flexing Their Muscles		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Muscles The car-sharing company Flexcar is planning to expand beyond its Northwest roots and enter the Washington, D.C., market this fall, where it will compete with Boston-based Zipcar. Both companies work to reduce the number of cars on the road by enticing customers to share vehicles and avoid the hassles of car ownership. Customers pa ...
Topics: business, green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC (all these topics)

No Safe Harbor		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
No Safe Harbor Even though water clarity in Boston Harbor has improved twofold and concentrations of contaminants have dropped 80 percent this past year, the area's major beaches aren't much cleaner than they were in the 1990s. Officials attribute the successes to a $4.1 billion, 16-year cleanup effort that ended in 2000. Sewage and stormwater discharges, however, have kept the beaches shut about 20 percent of the ti ...
Topics: Massachusetts, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Boston Tree Party Green money not good at the Boston Globe	Ben White	29 Jun 2001	Muckraker
Last Friday, the Boston Globe printed an angry letter to the editor from Todd Paglia of the environmental group Forest Ethics. The charge? That the Globe advertising department, without reasonable explanation, had refused to run a Forest Ethics ad critical of Massachusetts-based Staples, a major Globe advertiser, and that an ombudsman column backing the department's decision was based on embarrassingly one-sided ...
Topics: advertising, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

A Godsend for Enviros?	Ben White	26 Aug 1999	Muckraker
It's all but official. Hollywood actor Warren Beatty may have hedged his bets somewhat in a New York Times op-ed last Sunday, but he already has a presidential campaign website, which is this column's fin de si�cle measure of candidatehood, be it virtual or actual. Leaving aside the question of why certain individuals with no electoral experience (Ross Perot, Steve Forbes, et al.) feel qualified to begin their political careers by vaulting to th ...
Topics: elections, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Page:1 2 3 4		Results 76 – 84 of 84

Stories About: Massachusetts