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Kristin Casper, Greenpeace Clean Energy Now!
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a
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29 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a An agricultural company has agreed to sell 16,500 acres of salt ponds around the San Francisco Bay, paving the way for what could be the nation's biggest wetlands restoration project outside of the Florida Everglades. Cargill Inc., an international agriculture and food company, signed a preliminary agreement yesterday with state and federal governments and private fo ... |
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| Topics: California, land stewardship, San Francisco, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sitting By the Docket of the Bay
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04 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Sitting By the Docket of the Bay A five-year-old legal battle between San Francisco Baykeeper, a conservation organization, and Dow Chemical ended yesterday when the Contra Costa County Superior Court approved a settlement. Dow stood accused of unlawfully discharging contaminated water into the New York Slough, which empties into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers and from there into the San Francisco Bay. Under the terms of the settlement, Dow will pay $3 million ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Frisco Ain't Kidding
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29 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Frisco Ain't Kidding San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown proposed yesterday that his city pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Brown said the goal "is as much about protecting our national security as it is about protecting our environmental quality of life." If the city's Board of Supervisors passes Brown's resolution, San Francisco will become the 116th U.S. city to promise to cuts greenhouse gas emissions i ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Sunny Dispositions
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14 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Sunny Dispositions San Francisco may be making headlines with its innovative plan to radically expand solar power generation, but other places deserve kudos as well, according to a study released last week by Greenpeace. The study, produced before the San Francisco plan was approved by voters last week, compared both planned and installed solar energy systems in ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, California, Greenpeace, Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Texas, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Sun Francisco Giants
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30 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Sun Francisco Giants San Francisco could become the nation's leader in alternative energy use if voters approve two solar-energy ballot measures at the polls next week. Propositions B and H would enable the city to sell bonds to install solar panels on residential, commercial, and government rooftops, creating the largest solar power infrastructure in the United States. Advocates -- including nearly every major civic organization and city officials of diverse pol ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Flexing Their Muscles
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Bay City Rollers
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10 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Bay City Rollers Hybrid cars are all the rage in the San Francisco Bay area. About one in five hybrids sold in the U.S. has been purchased in the Bay area, and the average waiting time to buy a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight is five months at local dealers. Drivers say heads turn as their cars cruise by; some folks even talk of the sex appeal of the vehicles. In related news, across the U.S. ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Sitting By a Docket of the Bay
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30 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Sitting By a Docket of the Bay In response to a lawsuit brought by enviros, the U.S. EPA yesterday rejected the San Francisco Bay area's plan to clean up its smog-laden air. Local air-quality officials must now come up with a plan that satisfies the feds by next January, or risk losing more than $1 billion in federal highway dollars. Under the Clean Air Act, the Bay area had until last November to be in compliance with air-quality standards, but it missed the dea ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Greased Lightning
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24 May 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Greased Lightning The first gas station in a major city to sell vegetable fuel for diesel cars and trucks opened yesterday in San Francisco. A similar station also opened in Sparks, Nev. The biodiesel fuel is made from recycled vegetable oil from restaurants or from soybean oil. The fuel doesn't cut back on nitrogen oxide emissions, but it does avoid the carbon monoxide problems and the cloud of particulates that come from burning diesel. Vehicles using biodies ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Reduce, Reuse, Cycle
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18 May 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Reduce, Reuse, Cycle To commemorate Bike Commute Week in California, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown biked to City Hall yesterday, then took a limo ride back home for a shower. Eight members of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors also biked to work (no word on where they showered). Nationwide, less than 2 percent of Americans commute by bike, says the California Bike Coalition. But biking enthusiasts hope to change that. They are asking commuters around the c ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Mon Share
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01 Nov 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Mon Share A new car-sharing program is starting up in San Francisco this month, following the success of similar programs in Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash., and other American and European cities. Car-sharing programs offer people the opportunity to buy into a pool of cars and trucks that are available for running errands and making other trips. For people who drive only a few times a week or month, car sharing can save money, allev ... |
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| Topics: Portland, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Dorm!!!
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28 Sep 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Dorm!!! Northland College in Ashland, Wis., is giving 90 students the chance to live in one of the most eco-friendly dorms in the U.S. The $4.1 million Environmental Living and Learning Center, opened in 1998, features waterless composting toilets and furniture and countertops made from recycled material. A 20-kilowatt wind tower and solar panels provide about 8 percent of the dorm's power and cut water-heating costs by nearly 30 percent. Meanwhile, a new green off ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Compost-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat
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25 Jan 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Compost-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat San Francisco this year is becoming the first major U.S. city to offer curbside recycling for food waste, one sign of a growing nationwide trend toward composting. Communities across the U.S. are finding it difficult to meet the recycling goals they set in the early 1990s, and some are now pushing composting as a way to cut back on waste sent to landfills. Michele Raymond studied 18 communities that had managed to meet 65 per ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Bay Watch
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02 Aug 1999 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Bay Watch The San Francisco Bay looks and smells a lot better these days than it did 30 years ago, in part because municipal sewage and industrial waste are no longer dumped directly into the water. But many fish and wildlife species in the Bay are still in steep decline. The problem now is numerous small sources of pollution -- oil and gas spilled on streets, pesticides applied to lawns and farm fields, dioxin and PCB contamination in soils, mercury from mining an ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Greens Mourn Brown
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Ben White |
23 Jul 1999 |
Muckraker |
| Americans have been transfixed these last few days by the passing of a dazzling cultural icon, son of one of the most compelling -- and tragic -- political figures of the 20th century. A Green Brown Far less remarked upon has been the death last week of California Rep. George Brown (D), one of the environmental movement's "greatest champions," in the words of the Sierra Club. Brown spent much of his time during 18 terms in the House pressing ... |
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| Topics: California, elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Sierra Club Leaping into Political Ring?
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Ben White |
09 Jun 1999 |
Muckraker |
| Latest buzz on the streets of San Francisco is the nascent mayoral candidacy of enviro wunderkind Adam Werbach, who at the ripe old age of 26 is already an ex-president of the Sierra Club. We tracked Werbach down at the production company he runs in the Bay Area to find out if he is serious about taking on Democratic legend Willie Brown, whose job approval ratings of late are deep in the cellar. Werbach, who says he won't make ... |
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| Topics: elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Golden Boy Eyes Golden Gate
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03 Jun 1999 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: San Francisco Golden Boy Eyes Golden Gate Former Sierra Club Pres. Adam Werbach is eying the mayorship of San Francisco and plans to decide in the next two weeks whether to make a run this November. The 26-year-old environmental wunderkind, who still serves on the Sierra Club board, has hooked up with a campaign consultant who once worked in Bill Clinton's "war room" and media company North Woods Productions, which made the famous ads for Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's ... |
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| Topics: San Francisco (all these topics) |
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