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Meet the Parents 'Natural family living' is a growing trend		01 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Meet the Parents "Natural family living" is a growing trend Parents of today's youngest generation are increasingly choosing to raise their kids in more natural, even old-fashioned, ways, say supporters of a lifestyle called "natural family living." This parenting approach involves trusting instincts over published experts and using more natural means to feed, medicate, and nurture children, which can transl ...
Topics: green living, United States (all these topics)

The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department		01 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department Sam Bodman's nomination to serve as energy secretary sailed through the Senate yesterday, despite his having little to no experience working on energy issues. Now he can get to work pushing Bush's big energy bill through Congress, fighting for the opening of the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., a ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

The liter of the pack	Clark Williams-Derry	31 Jan 2005	Gristmill
I didn't know this: In Canada, automobile fuel economy is expressed as gallons per mile, not miles per gallon as it is in the U.S. (Well, really, it's liters per hundred kilometers, but if you're south of the 49th parallel and a metric-system-phobe, gallons per mile is essentially the same thing.) Now, I don't mention this just to expose my lack of cultural knowledge of my northern neighbors. I mention it because it seems to me that liters-per-kilometer is a ...
Topics: Canada, cars, education, fossil fuels, United States (all these topics)

Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's new book It's My Party Too is out now, and she is having her moment of media ubiquity, bashing what she calls the increasing extremism of the Republican Party. In interviews and appearances on such commie-pinko outlets as NPR's "Fresh Air& ...
Topics: green living, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Plug-in Play Enterprising hybrid owners tinker to get better mileage		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Plug-in Play Enterprising hybrid owners tinker to get better mileage Hybrid vehicles have been touted as the Next Big Thing in efficient transportation. So what's the Next Next Big Thing? Maybe hybrids with a twist. A handful of engineering students at the University of California at Davis and other mechanically inclined greens have been tinkering with existing hybrids to boo ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries The largest refinery settlement in U.S. history was announced yesterday, as ConocoPhillips, the nation's largest oil refiner, agreed to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine refineries, a deal that will remove 47,000 tons of harmful pollutants from the air each year. This is the 13th such settlement since 1998. ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, oil, United States (all these topics)

Chlorific Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says		27 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Chlorific Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says A new study suggests that the chlorine industry may be releasing dangerously high amounts of mercury into the environment, more even than the coal-fired power plants usually pinpointed as major emitters. Although most chlorine plants use a production process that does not involve mercury, there are nine in the U.S. whose century-old methods ...
Topics: air pollution, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		27 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition		26 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) and George Pataki (R-N.Y.), in a letter to a Senate committee that's convening today to deliberate the Bush administration's Clear Skies bill, emphasized the importance of protecting state environmental enforcement powers. Both California and New York have put i ...
Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation		26 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation And the lion shall lie down with the lamb indeed. A strange political alliance is taking shape in Washington, D.C., as neoconservatives anxious to sap political strength from their Middle Eastern nemeses form common cause with enviros anxious to slow global warming. What unites them? A desire to reduce oi ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do? Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		26 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Changing the Climate-Change Climate Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight		25 Jan 2005	Dispatches
Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan		21 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan President Bush's Clear Skies legislation has stalled out in Congress, unable to muster support even from a sufficient number of Republicans. To compensate, Bush is planning to implement some of the bill's provisions by issuing executive orders -- for instance, an order establishing a mercury-emissions trading program. But the electric-utilit ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry		20 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry Former University of California at Berkeley professor and one-time biotech supporter Ignacio Chapela is fighting against what he alleges are huge sums of money being used by the biotech industry to influence research at U.S. universities. After what he says was a coordinated PR push by the industry, the science journal Nature abandoned support for his research ...
Topics: GMOs, politics, United States (all these topics)

Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions		20 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions In what is likely to be a growing trend, a private company is stepping in to make money by offering people a concrete way to take positive action against global warming. Benven LLC runs a program called TerraPass, which emerged from a classroom project at the Wharton School of Business. TerraPass sells carbon-dioxide re ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Courting Disaster Bush judicial nominees could shake the foundations of environmental law	Glenn Scherer	20 Jan 2005	Main Dish
William G. Myers III is George W. Bush's choice for a lifetime position on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court's jurisdiction covers three-quarters of all federal lands, in nine Western states where contentious battles rage over energy, mining, timber, and grazing. Which way will the scales of justice tip? Unlike most judicial nominees, Myers has never been a judge ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Ford: 'Tough' Two California drivers fight Ford to keep their electric vehicles		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Ford: "Tough" Two California drivers fight Ford to keep their electric vehicles An around-the-clock protest began Friday in Sacramento, Calif., to save two electric vehicles from being repossessed and scrapped by their maker. The electricity-powered Ford Ranger pickup trucks were two of many produced by Ford Motor Co. during a new-vehicle pilot program in 1999 and then leased to drivers. Lessees David Rabo ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks		19 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Dirty Pretty Things Two major cosmetic companies will omit harmful chemicals from products		18 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Dirty Pretty Things Two major cosmetic companies will omit harmful chemicals from products Revlon Inc. and L'Oreal USA have pledged to follow the European Union's relatively strict new anti-toxics rule in formulating their perfumes, hair dyes, makeup, and other products for sale in the U.S. The two companies were convinced to take the step by San Francisco's Breast Cancer Fund, which wants to shield American ...
Topics: business, green living, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Uncritical Mass Anti-nuke opposition muted even as U.S. nuclear industry expands		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Uncritical Mass Anti-nuke opposition muted even as U.S. nuclear industry expands Opponents of nuclear power in the U.S. have been having a rough time of late attracting attention to their cause, even as the nuclear-power industry gears up to build five new reactors by 2015 and as many as 50 by 2050, with enthusiastic backing from the Bush administration. Concerns over high oil prices, enthusiasm over the prospect of ...
Topics: business, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says A new report by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the Bush administration's proposed reform of current air-quality standards will effectively do less to reduce pollution than existing Clean Air Act regulations, much as critics, including John Kerry (remember him?), charged ...
Topics: air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, politics, United States (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reapers A special series on the alleged 'Death of Environmentalism'		13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
A special series on the alleged "Death of Environmentalism" 13 Jan 2005 Environmental leaders were rather dismayed late last year when upstarts began offering high-profile obituaries of their beloved movement. Is environmentalism dead? We are reminded of a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a wizened old man is offered to the collector of dead bodies in plague-ridden London. "I'm not dead," the geezer wheezes. "I'm getting bette ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Death of Environmentalism, politics, United States (all these topics)

Death Wish An interview with authors of the controversial essay 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
An interview with authors of the controversial essay "The Death of Environmentalism" By Amanda Griscom Little 13 Jan 2005 Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus stirred up quite a fuss when they unveiled their essay "The Death of Environmentalism" last fall, declaring the environmental movement kaput and calling for a more visionary and inspiring progressive movement to take its place. In an interview with Grist, Shellenberger and Nordhaus talk about their ideas, ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

Over Our Dead Bodies Green leaders say rumors of environmentalism's death are greatly exaggerated	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
The leadership of the U.S. environmental movement took quite a beating in Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus's "The Death of Environmentalism." We invited four mainstream green leaders to respond: Carl Pope of the Sierra Club Phil Clapp of National Environmental Trust Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council Dan Carol of the Apollo ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

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