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Tennessee Faults
Conservationists use market to save Cumberland Plateau hardwood forests |
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25 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Tennessee Faults Conservationists use market to save Cumberland Plateau hardwood forests The 19.4 million acres that comprise the Cumberland Plateau and surrounding mountains in the southeastern U.S. contain more threatened and endangered species than any ecosystem in the country outside California's Central Valley. But the hardwood forests that cover the area are rapidly being clearcut and replaced with swaths of faster-grow ... |
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| Topics: business, logging, Southeast (all these topics) |
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Sturm Und Dang
Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities |
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20 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Sturm Und Dang Climate change and urbanization lead to more natural-disaster fatalities Thanks to global warming and the increasing concentration of the earth's denizens in densely populated urban centers, more and more people are vulnerable to natural disasters -- floods, droughts, storms, fires, landslides, and the like. The number of reported natural disasters rose from 261 in 1990 to 337 last year; durin ... |
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| Topics: Caribbean, climate, Southeast, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Sting Ray
Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions |
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23 Jul 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Ray Vaughan, executive director of WildLaw. What are your feelings about vegetarianism and its contribution to reducing environmental damage and alleviating world hunger? And why do you carry a gun? -- Marylou Noble, Portland, Ore. I admire folks who can truly reduce their impacts while still working on the big-picture problems; my comment was directed to people I know who make minimizing their impacts th ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics) |
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WildLaw, You Make My Heart Sing
Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions |
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19 Jul 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Ray Vaughan. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am executive director of WildLaw. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? WildLaw is a nonprofit environmental law firm that represents hundreds of community, environmental, and conservation organizations around the country. We work mainly in the So ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics) |
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They're Going to Pump You Up
Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases |
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14 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Coal Comfort
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30 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Coal Comfort A four-and-a-half-year study by the federal government has confirmed what most residents of Appalachia figured was obvious: Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying the region's forests and streams. Yet despite the findings, which were released yesterday, the Bush administration does not intend to impose concrete limits on the practice. In ... |
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| Topics: Appalachia, deforestation, energy, mining and drilling, renewable energy, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics) |
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White Trash Turns Green
A review of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
Gregory Gipson |
14 Feb 2002 |
Arts and Minds |
| "Beauty is so much in demand," A. R. Ammons writes in his magnificent poem, "Garbage," that "it's a wonder natural / selection hasn't thinned out anything not perfectly / beautiful." Nature, he adds, "likes a broad spectrum approaching disorder so / as to maintain the potential of change with / variety and environment." Ecology of a Cracker Childhood By Janisse ... |
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| Topics: green living, Southeast (all these topics) |
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Sierra Club Can't Take a Leak
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Ben White |
12 Jan 2000 |
Muckraker |
| A memo circulated recently around the Sierra Club's offices highlighted the "Top Ten" reasons the group should not endorse Vice Pres. Al Gore. The memo, written by Sierra Club board member Michael Dorsey and unearthed by the Washington Times last week, says: "Does Vice President Gore really care about nature? Does he care about protecting people from hazardous waste and toxic pollution? Does he care about human life and the fu ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, elections, Greenpeace, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, South, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics) |
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