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Good Label Manners Not all 'eco-labels' are created equal	Matthew L. Miller	16 Mar 2004	Soapbox
Not all "eco-labels" are created equal By Matthew L. Miller 16 Mar 2004 "What's in a name?" asks Shakespeare. Conscientious food consumers are beginning to realize that the answer too often is, "Not much." Eggsellent. Shoppers increasingly are willing to pay more for food produced in a way that protects human health, water, wildlife, rural communities, and farm workers. And this is not lost on marketers. Many grocery packages today include "e ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics)

Water Relief! New Report Delivers Good News on Water Usage		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Water Relief! New Report Delivers Good News on Water Usage Americans used 408 billion gallons of water a day in 2000, a number virtually unchanged since 1985 and lower (down 25 percent per capita) than in 1975, says a report released yesterday by the U.S. Geological Survey. "Conservation," the report says, "is working." Though the public tends to be preoccupied with private water usage, homes and businesses a ...
Topics: green living, United States (all these topics)

Que Sierra, Sierra Immigration controversy engulfs Sierra Club board election	Michelle Nijhuis	01 Mar 2004	Main Dish
If the Democratic primaries have proven a little prim and polite for your taste, there's another upcoming election that may pique your interest. This one is loaded with bitter controversy, nasty accusations, and emotional appeals to democracy and fairness. Its major players have even taken their grievances to court -- all before the nearly three-quarters of a million potential voters hav ...
Topics: politics, population, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Supersize America Does it make sense for environmentalists to want to limit immigration?	Bill McKibben	01 Mar 2004	Soapbox
The Sierra Club, most venerable of environmental organizations, is awash in charges, countercharges, suits, countersuits, invective, counter-invective, and double counter-invective bounces-off-me-and-sticks-to-you. At issue, depending on whom you talk to, is whether single-issue racists will take over the organization's board or whether club democracy will be squelched by blatant ...
Topics: green living, population, United States (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
GM: Unsafe for Any Seed Much of U.S. Food Supply Contaminated With Genetically Engineered DNA Most ordinary crop seeds in the U.S. are contaminated with strands of genetically modified DNA, and unless federal regulations and farm practices are tightened considerably, the entire U.S. food supply will soon contain GM elements, says a report released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scien ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, health, United States (all these topics)

CAFE Au Lait Bush plan to overhaul CAFE standards is a mixed bag	Amanda Griscom	20 Feb 2004	Powers That Be
Clean up the bus, gus. Photo: NREL. The Bush administration has taken to singing the clean-car gospel lately, but it's not quite hitting all the notes. Last month, U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt joined Detroit kingpins in a splashy D.C. conference to trumpet the arrival of new vehicles and fuels that reduce sulfur emissions -- a notable achievement, but what Leavitt was passing off as a Bush administratio ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, fuel efficiency, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates Asthma rates are climbing around the world, and though scientists can't say precisely what's causing the increase, pollution is thought to be a serious contributor. The respiratory disease has become a particular problem in Asia, where terrible air quality, rapid u ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, China, health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling The Environmental Investigation Agency and the Indonesian environmental group Telapak yesterday accused the Malaysian government of turning a blind eye to the widespread trafficking of timber illegally logged from Indonesia. According to an investigative report by the two groups, large quan ...
Topics: business, globalization, Indonesia, logging, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Different In sharp contrast to the recently released Bush administration budget, Canada's Liberal Party government on Monday promised to double spending on contaminated-site cleanups, promote green technologies to increase energy efficiency, and go beyond the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in curtailing emissions. Over 10 years, $4 billion ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Smoke Signals Global-warming activists can learn from the anti-smoking campaign	Audrey Schulman	03 Feb 2004	Soapbox
Twenty years ago, it seemed that virtually everyone smoked. You couldn't sit in a restaurant for five minutes without stinking of cigarettes for hours. Now, in state after state, even biker bars are going smoke-free. Clearly, there's been a dramatic shift in the public's attitude toward smoking -- but it hasn't been an intellectual shift. Since the 1964 Surgeon General's report on ...
Topics: advertising, climate, energy, green living, United States (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire	Amanda Griscom	28 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
20,000 Toxins Under the Sea Ocean Mammals Getting Pummeled by Pollution New research indicates that human-made toxins have infiltrated deep and remote parts of the ocean. The Ocean Alliance, a Massachusetts-based research organization, has found troubling levels of DDT, PCBs, and other contaminants in the blubber of sperm whales. Scienti ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Kerry Forward Veteran environmental leader gives Kerry the green light	Denis Hayes	22 Jan 2004	Soapbox
Ted gets Kerry-ed away. Photo: Lou Dematteis, Kerry for President. A mischievous grin spread across John Kerry's face last week as he was introducing Ted Kennedy, his fellow Massachusetts senator, to an Iowa crowd. It caught my eye because I hadn't seen Kerry smile for quite a while. "I'm now pleased to introduce," he said, "the real leader of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Par ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Rhode Island lawsuit pinpoints lead poisoning as an environmental, not medical, problem		22 Jan 2004	The Gist
In the spring of 2000, in Manchester, N.H., a two-year-old Sudanese girl named Sunday Abek, just three weeks removed from an Egyptian refugee camp, was treated at an emergency room for a low-grade fever and vomiting. A throat culture turned up positive for strep, and she was sent home with an antibiotic prescription. Three weeks later, as her vomiting worsened, Abek w ...
Topics: health, Rhode Island, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer Speaking of genetic drift: The Canadian Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday in a case that has become a cause celebre for both opponents and fans of agricultural biotechnology. Agro-giant Monsanto Co. sued Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser when its patented biotech canola was found growing in his ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Meow Mix David Baron's The Beast in the Garden says a romantic view of nature could come back to bite us	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Jan 2004	Arts and Minds
One afternoon in mid-January 1991, students in a high school English class in Idaho Springs, Colo., saw a familiar sight outside their classroom windows: Their schoolmate Scott Lancaster, a dedicated competitive cyclist, was starting his daily training run on the wooded ridge behind Clear Creek High School. The 18-year-old clowned for the class as he passed by, ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Sick and Wrong	Wildlife Trust	16 Jan 2004	Counter Culture
Hey, hey, I'm a monkey. Photo: HSUS. 350 million+ -- number of plants and animals involved in international wildlife trade each year1 $6 billion -- annual worth of criminal wildlife trade2 99,939 -- number of primates legally imported into the U.S. as pets or research animals between 1995 and 20021 80-90 -- percentage of macaque monkeys (popular exotic pets) infected with Herpes B virus or Simian B, a virus harmless to monkeys but often fatal to huma ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Keen on Dean Babbitt, Hawken, and other enviros throw their weight behind Dean	Bruce Babbitt, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams	15 Jan 2004	Soapbox
By Bruce Babbitt, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben and Terry Tempest Williams 15 Jan 2004 We've spent much of our lives working for environmental change -- for a response to global warming, for the preservation of biodiversity, for wild places, for family farms. But this winter, we're working for Howard Dean for president -- backing him in the confident hope that his victory will mean that the deep environmental principles ...
Topics: politics, United States, Vermont (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef What's bad news for most ranchers may be great news for growers and purveyors of organic and natural-fed beef. In the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., folks who still like to chomp on a nice, juicy steak are increasingly seeking out beef that's been raised the old-fashioned way. To earn the organi ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, ranching, United States (all these topics)

Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism Which menacing global problem should be keeping you up at night: terrorism or climate change? Britain's top government scientist is creating a bit of a stir by arguing that it's the latter, and lambasting President Bush for having his priorities all out of whack. In an article in today's issue of the U.S. jo ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

The National Wink-Wink Convention	Suzy Becker	07 Jan 2004	Ha.

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Task Force Majeure The Supreme Court may alleviate Cheney's energy task force troubles	Amanda Griscom	17 Dec 2003	Muckraker
On Monday, the Supreme Court offered Vice President Dick Cheney a possible escape hatch from the great energy task force imbroglio. The high court agreed to hear an appeal from Cheney, who for more than a year has been defying a federal judge's order to pony up documents about his infamous 2001 task force. Those behind the lawsuit against the veep are certain the documents will re ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mercury, Muckraker, New Jersey, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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