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Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship
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29 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 29 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. Part of my internship at EnviroCitizen involves getting media attention for our summit, "Powered by Justice: Skills to Build Energy Alternatives." Radio stations and student, community, and local papers around Washingto ... |
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Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship
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28 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 28 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. When I start my days, I always check my email, then get to the phone messages. The bulk of the emails I get are concerning our upcoming student summit -- either volunteers or people interested in attending it. Today, I had a lu ... |
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Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship
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27 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 27 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. A large part of putting together our summit, "Powered By Justice: Skills to Build Energy Alternatives," probably the largest part, is recruitment. One of our primary goals in recruiting students for this summit is di ... |
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Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship
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26 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 26 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. EnviroCitizen has several ongoing campaigns that aim to engage students in the environmental movement and enable them to make changes at their schools and elsewhere. These campaigns include: Stop ExxonMobil, Clean Energy Now, an ... |
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Shale Maulana, Center for Environmental Citizenship
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25 Aug 2003 |
Dispatches |
| Shale Maulana is Northwest summit coordinator for the Center for Environmental Citizenship and a student and activist at Seattle Central Community College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 25 Aug 2003 SEATTLE, Wash. This summer, I'm interning with the Center for Environmental Citizenship (EnviroCitizen), helping to organize a student summit, "Powered By Justice: Skills to Build Energy Alternatives." It's a 10-week internship, worki ... |
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Ecotopia on the Hudson
Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City |
Alan Thein Durning |
19 Aug 2003 |
Soapbox |
| In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise. The text became a counterculture classic, and the term "Ecotopia" entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent's forested far coast as a land of recycling bins and spo ... |
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| Topics: New York, New York City, Northwest, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics) |
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Cruising for Trouble
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03 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Cruising for Trouble Environmental protesters came out to say good riddance when the Crystal Harmony cruise ship pulled out of port in San Francisco yesterday. The Crystal Cruises company was banned from docking its ships in Monterey, Calif., in March because one of its ships had discharged tens of thousands of gallons of wastewater into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Enviros in San Francisco are frustrated that their ... |
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No Credence to Clearwater Revival
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06 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| No Credence to Clearwater Revival Stormwater runoff flowing into restored Seattle-area creeks and rivers appears to be killing salmon, according to a groundbreaking study by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Eighty-eight percent of coho salmon studied last fall died within hours of swimming into a stream that was being inundated by runoff. Rainwater pours ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Trash Can Do!
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15 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Trash Can Do! Activists, industry reps, and government officials are gathering in Seattle, Wash., this week for the National Recycling Congress, but the mood isn't exactly festive. Seems recycling has fallen on hard times: International commercial markets for many recyclables are down, fiber markets are diving, and a decade of growth in recycling rates has plateaued or even dropped. Delegates at the meeting hope to reenergize the recycling movement, which has, after a ... |
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Earning Some Green
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06 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Earning Some Green Business for Social Responsibility, the brainchild of such lefty companies as Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's, is holding a conference in Seattle this week that is attracting companies not exactly known for their progressive politics: Chevron, Weyerhaeuser, Ford, The Gap, Nike, and the like. Homegrown giants Starbucks and Microsoft will also attend the conference, where delegates will discuss how to be responsible corporate citizens and still look go ... |
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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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They Could Car Less
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24 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| They Could Car Less Seattle is finding sweet success with an experimental program that encourages couples to give up their extra vehicle. After a recent nine-week pilot program, six of 23 couples were thinking of selling their extra car, two were trying to sell it, and two had already sold it. The couples were paid $25 for the first three weeks of the program, during which they continued to use their extra car and k ... |
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| Topics: cars, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics) |
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Spell 'Pig' Backwards and Say 'Funny'
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14 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Spell 'Pig' Backwards and Say 'Funny' In a pioneering study examining the exposure of urban and suburban children to household pesticides, all but one of 96 Seattle-area preschool children were found to have trace levels of pesticide in their urine, according to researchers at the University of Washington. The study found that "children whose families reported pesticide use in their gardens had significantly higher [chemical] concentr ... |
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Schell Game
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24 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Schell Game Even though U.S. President Bush has withdrawn the U.S. from the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell (D) and four City Council members announced yesterday that Seattle would easily meet what would have been the greenhouse-gas-reduction target for the U.S. under Kyoto. The city promised to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels and to t ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, hydropower, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics) |
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How Do We Sleep While Our Labs Are Burning?
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23 May 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle How Do We Sleep While Our Labs Are Burning? Federal authorities believe that two fires in the Northwest may have been set early on Monday by environmentalists opposed to genetic engineering. The arson at the University of Washington in Seattle appeared targeted at research to make genetically engineered trees more commercially viable, but authorities said the fire mostly destroyed or damaged work on endangered species, wetlands restoration, and urban forestry and garden ... |
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Maybe They Just Needed to Venti
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23 Mar 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Maybe They Just Needed to Venti As Starbucks executives joyously announced a stock split to shareholders during the company's annual meeting in Seattle on Tuesday, demonstrators gathered outside the meeting and stores in 100 other U.S. cities to denounce the company's use of genetically engineered ingredients in some products. The protesters, organized by the Organic Consumers Association, particularly object to the company's use of milk containing the genetically engin ... |
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Stop the WTO -- and Bring Some Coleslaw
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14 Nov 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Stop the WTO -- and Bring Some Coleslaw Many environmentalists and other anti-globalization activists are planning to gather in Seattle on 30 Nov. to mark the one-year anniversary of much-publicized protests against the World Trade Organization. Thousands are expected, though far fewer than the estimated 50,000 who hit the city's streets last year, calling for trade policies to be made more friendly to the environment and workers around the world. Activists are planning ... |
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Give a Hoot, Let Us Pollute
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13 Nov 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Give a Hoot, Let Us Pollute Foreign and trade ministers from several developing countries, led by Malaysia, are pushing for the world's industrialized nations to give up their requests that environmental and labor standards be made part of international trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization. At a meeting in Brunei of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the developing nations are arguing that such standards would undermine their ability to take ad ... |
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P-Sea-B
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03 May 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle P-Sea-B Some 110 tons of PCB-contaminated waste that were forced out of Seattle's port last month may now be headed for Johnston Island, a wildlife refuge and U.S. territory 700 miles southwest of Honolulu. The waste, generated at U.S. military bases in Japan, was to be temporarily stored in Seattle, but enviros, dock workers, and Washington state politicians fought to have the waste sent back to Japan. Now the U.S. government is considering disposing of it on Johnston I ... |
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Taint Nuthin'
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10 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Taint Nuthin' Environmentalists joined labor unions and Washington state officials in celebrating their victory this weekend after thwarting plans to unload and temporarily store 110 tons of toxic waste in Seattle. A ship carrying PCB-tainted waste from U.S. military bases in Japan arrived in the Port of Seattle last week, and the U.S. Defense Department attempted to have the waste unloaded in the city while it figured out what to do with it. Environmentalists threatened ... |
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Gary, Gary Quite Contrary
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07 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Gary, Gary Quite Contrary Fourteen containers of PCB-contaminated waste have been sitting since Wednesday on a ship at the Port of Seattle, with dock workers refusing to unload the cargo and environmentalists threatening to sue if the waste is brought ashore in Seattle. The 110 tons of waste, generated at U.S. military bases in Japan, had been headed for processing in Canada, but before the ship reached its destination, the Canadian government refused to admit the waste ... |
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A Bunch of Spoil Ports
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05 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| A Bunch of Spoil Ports A ship carrying toxic waste from U.S. military bases in Japan is likely to meet with controversy when it docks later today in Seattle. The 90 tons of PCBs had been en route to Vancouver, Canada, but the Canadian government abruptly rescinded a permit for the waste to be unloaded, a U.S. EPA spokesperson said last night. Now the U.S. Department of Defense and the EPA have begun hasty negotiations to figure out what ... |
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Ding, Dong, the Round Is Dead
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06 Dec 1999 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: Seattle Ding, Dong, the Round Is Dead The World Trade Organization's ministerial meeting in Seattle ended in failure on Friday night, with delegates unable to reach agreement on issues to be addressed in a new round of trade talks. Enviros and other activists who had protested on the Seattle streets against the WTO, pointing to free trade's damaging effects on the environment, labor rights, and human rights, rejoiced at the collapse and took some credit for helping stall the for ... |
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Raking up the Rubble
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Donella H. Meadows |
06 Dec 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| All week I've been cringing at the news. Tear gas. Broken windows. Bloody faces. The National Guard called in to defend Seattle against anti-WTO demonstrators. From far away, totally in sympathy with the demonstrators, I've been yelling at them, "No, please, get hold of yourselves! Don't tar our cause with violence!" Cops taking over the streets. Photo by Sherry Bosse. Of course only a tiny fraction of the protesters in Seattle wer ... |
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| Topics: Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics) |
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Raj Patel, anti-WTO activist
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05 Dec 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Raj Patel has worked for both the WTO and World Bank, and is currently active in campaigns against them. He is based in Ithaca, N.Y., where he is a Ph.D. student at Cornell University and a co-editor of the Voice of the Turtle. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Sunday, 05 Dec 1999 ITHACA, N.Y. "Seattle -- It's a Gas" -- A protestor's sign at the Jail Solidarity Demonstration "[The protests in Seattle] indicate the remaining damage that Marxism has done ... |
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