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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Water wars!	David Roberts	24 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Georgia, severe weather, Tennessee, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

A Perfect Tennesseean Tennessee Senate passes resolution honoring Al Gore		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 11 Jan 2008 The Tennessee state Senate has passed a resolution honoring Al Gore for his efforts to curb climate change. And the crowd goes wild! "Let's be honest about it. What is a resolution but a piece of paper with flowery words on it," says House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower, adding that the resolution "has no real meaning other than whatever meaning it has to him when he hangs ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, news, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Balkin' in Memphis The riverfront in Memphis needs help -- but what kind?	Katharine Wroth	20 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
May God bless Memphis, the noblest city on the face of the earth. -- Mark Twain To visit Memphis, Tenn., is to visit a place that is slowly waking from a decades-long stupor. The things that define this city in the popular imagination -- the glamorous life of Elvis Presley, the shocking assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -- happened decades ago. Some of the young professionals the city ...
Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: A flood of coverage A recap of our week on the river	Sarah van Schagen	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Iowa, Mississippi River, Missouri, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: The end of the road On politics, ponyshoes, and PBR	Katharine Wroth	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Mississippi River, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: A uniter, not a divider Memphians hope river can bridge racial divide	Sarah van Schagen	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Labor day In which we get a glimpse of reality	Katharine Wroth	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: A developing story Memphis debates what to do with its riverfront	Sarah van Schagen	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Mississippi River, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Potentially deadly uranium spill in Tennessee kept secret		21 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Potentially deadly uranium spill in Tennessee kept secret As part of its model for a newer, more relevant form of democracy in the 21st century, the U.S. government in 2004 clamped down on the public's access to information on all things nuclear, for so-called national-security reasons. Hidden in the big ol' nuclear hidey-hole: news of a leak of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear ...
Topics: jackassery, news, nuclear power, Tennessee (all these topics)

Southern vacation A few random observations before getting back to work	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Georgia, green living, placemaking, Prius, Tennessee, travel (all these topics)

Green Knoxville? Weird but true	David Roberts	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning, websites (all these topics)

Fred Thompson Will he run?	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: jackassery, local politics, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

C'est Bonn Legendary music fest Bonnaroo urges fans to go green	Sarah van Schagen	23 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
Two's company, 80,000's a crowd. Photos: Sarah van Schagen. � For most of the year, this 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., provides open, grassy pasture for a herd of cows. But for a short time each summer, the idyllic setting is taken over by a different kind of herd: the tens of thousands of fans who descend for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The now-legendary event features long-haired ...
Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, Tennessee (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Chattanooga The city has transformed itself into one of the nation's most forward-thinking	David Roberts	20 Jan 2006	Gristmill

Topics: placemaking, Tennessee, urban planning (all these topics)

The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm		15 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has been blowing hard against wind power, a position that's mystified both his Senate colleagues and wind-industry advocates. Alexander introduced an energy bill earlier this year that included grants for solar and other sources of clean power, as well as incentives for "clean ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, Tennessee, wind power (all these topics)

Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests Environmental activists are planning a summer of focused protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia and surrounding coal states. "Mountain Justice Summer" will call for nonviolent protests against this highly destructive mining technique, whereby entire mountaintops ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, Tennessee, West Virginia (all these topics)

A-Hundting We Will Go Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers readers' questions		18 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner. In your experience, what is the greatest obstacle to smart urban development? In other words, what is the biggest reason it's not being done in more places?�� -- Tommi Makila, Des Moines, Iowa Public policy and regulations -- national, state, and local. At all levels, the funding of roads and highways fuels sprawl. At the local level (and this is true fo ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Hundting Season Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers Grist's questions		14 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Karen Hundt. What work do you do? I am the director of the Planning & Design Studio in Chattanooga, Tenn. We are a division of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, but the design studio focuses on downtown and riverfront redevelopment. How does it relate to the environment? The biggest environmental issue facing this country is the way we're building our cities -- suburban spr ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities The Bush administration has a new plan to waive some safety standards at federal nuclear facilities. The administration apparently didn't like being directed by Congress in 2002 to strictly enforce safety standards at the nuke sites -- though, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, you might have thought such a ste ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

It Doesn't Look a Day Over 29 Taking Stock of the Endangered Species Act at Age 30		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
It Doesn't Look a Day Over 29 Taking Stock of the Endangered Species Act at Age 30 Who knew the Endangered Species Act was a Sagittarius? That's right, this month the act will turn 30. Signed into law by President Nixon in 1973, the ESA aimed to prevent extinctions, bring imperiled species back to viable population levels, and protect the natural habitat needed to sustain wildlife. Five years later, the law ga ...
Topics: dams, energy, politics, Tennessee, wildlife (all these topics)

Little Solar Houses for You and Me Working to develop the Volkswagen of solar homes	Amanda Griscom	07 Oct 2003	Powers That Be
Just off I-75 in Tennessee, halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, past a Home Depot, a Ford dealership, a Krispy Kreme, and a Piggly Wiggly supermarket, there is a newly developed tract of low-income homes built by volunteers of Habitat for Humanity. A bright idea: the Indrajaya-Kinandjar solar house. At first glance, nothing about the development seems out of the ordinary. The ...
Topics: renewable energy, Tennessee, United States (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: ... food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

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