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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Change of Climate The Bush administration lost credibility over Kyoto, and can't get it back over Iraq	Bill McKibben	13 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Every European poll shows enormous percentages of people who oppose the pending war on Iraq: 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent. That's an extraordinary consensus; it's rare when 70 percent of people agree about anything. Taking their anti-Bush sentiments to the streets in Prague. Photo: Punchdown.org. The consensus is all the more extraordinary because people are ...
Topics: climate, European Union, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

In Need of Refuge	Noah Matson	13 Mar 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 540 -- number of national wildlife refuges in the U.S.1 95.3 million -- size, in acres, of the refuge system2 19.3 million -- size, in acres, of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest refuge in the country3 0.6 -- size, in acres, of Minnesota's Mille Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, the smallest refuge in the country4 20.7 million -- acres of designated wilderness in the refuge system5 59 -- number o ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Tough Cell What can we learn from Bush's FreedomCAR plan?	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2003	Powers That Be
Following the State of the Union address in which President Bush laid out his new FreedomCAR and Fuel Initiative, which was cheered by automakers and jeered by environmentalists, hydrogen fever swept from the Beltway into the printing presses and airwaves of mainstream media. CNN, Business Week, the New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report, among others, ran stories that, although sometimes skeptical of ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Overdrive	Jim Motavalli	26 Feb 2003	Counter Culture
214,000,000 -- number of vehicles in the U.S.1 290,000,000 -- number of people in the U.S.2 2 -- number of American cars on the Top 20 list in "The Greenest Vehicles of 2003," produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (the other 18 are Japanese)3 22,802 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 19834 34,459 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 19955 24,902 -- circumference of the Earth, in miles6 19 -- p ...
Topics: placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Tony Tony Tony!		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan A review of The People's Forests	Jesse Lichtenstein	11 Feb 2003	Arts and Minds
At 3:30 in the morning, on July 15, 1932, 31-year-old Bob Marshall started walking. His goal: to see how many peaks in the Adirondack Mountains he could scale in one day. At 1 p.m., he met up with Herb Clark, an old family friend, at the summit of Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in the range. Clark was with a young architect named Paul Schaefer. More than 30 years later, looking back on the encounter, Schaefer ...
Topics: United States, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Ready, Aim, Fire		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Ready, Aim, Fire The Bush administration, U.S. troops, and Iraqi citizens aren't the only people preparing for war: Employees of American companies that specialize in extinguishing fires from oil wells are also readying themselves for what's to come. Iraq's economy, Middle Eastern political stability, and U.S. interests all dictate that the oil industry cannot be a casua ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Middle East, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Strong and Short of It		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Strong and Short of It In a sign of increasing international concern about the ecological challenges posed by China, one of the world's most prominent greens has moved to Beijing and set up shop as an environmental consultant. For more than three decades, Canadian Maurice Strong has been a major player in global diplomacy, environmental and otherwise; earlier ...
Topics: Asia, business, China, green living, news, nuclear power, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

The Truck Stops There		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops There In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court yesterday halted a federal plan to permit thousands of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, calling instead for environmental reviews that could take up to three years. In November, President Bush approved the entry of 30,000 Mexican trucks per year, citing ob ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, globalization, Mexico, North America, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Glow Worms		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Glow Worms It's been a busy week when it comes to nuclear security. Here in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to overhaul its management of the nation's atomic power plants in response to concern that it failed to rapidly detect potentially disastrous damage to a reactor in Ohio. Yesterday, the NRC adopted almost all 50 recommendations that s ...
Topics: energy, Greenpeace, health, New York, nuclear power, Ohio, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Big Ban Boom		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Big Ban Boom Robert Zoellick, the Bush administration's chief trade official, is calling on the U.S. to challenge the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Zoellick claims the ban is both scientifically backward and "immoral," arguing that it deprives starving people in the developing world of food. The U.S. and t ...
Topics: Africa, European Union, globalization, GMOs, health, politics, population, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Not Buying It It's time Americans hit the brakes on consumption	Eric Brown	08 Jan 2003	Soapbox
Every year, long before the last of the Halloween candy has been eaten, the drumbeat of holiday consumerism ushers in a long, wasteful, expensive march to New Year's. Now Holiday 2002 is finally over, and apparently it's just as well, because it turns out the season was a "failure." This information comes not from our friends, our family, or even our clergy, but from CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, ...
Topics: business, green living, holiday, United States (all these topics)

Flippering Out		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Flippering Out In a lawsuit made public late last week, Earth Island Institute and other environmental organizations have sued the U.S. government for relaxing labeling standards for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The suit stems from a decision by the U.S. Commerce Department to classify as dolphin-safe a previously prohibited method of fishing -- in which dolph ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, environmental justice, marine life, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

Credit Where Credit Is Due		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Credit Where Credit Is Due The Kyoto Protocol on climate change has not yet gone into effect, but the first sale of greenhouse gas credits negotiated within the treaty's proposed framework is officially a done deal. Slovakia (of all places) has sold emissions credits equivalent to 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to a Japanese trading house, which declined to ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Japan, politics, Slovakia, United States (all these topics)

Washed Up	Kaitlin Gregg	05 Dec 2002	Counter Culture
400 -- loads of laundry washed by a typical U.S. household in one year1 35 billion -- loads of laundry washed every year in the U.S.2 74 -- percentage of U.S. households with washers and dryers3 7 -- percentage of washing machines replaced by U.S. consumers each year3 81,000 -- annual electricity consumption, in gigawatt hours, of U.S. washers and dryers3 33 to 50 -- percentage reduction in energy use by high-efficiency washing machines compared to conventi ...
Topics: climate, green living, United States (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

You're Out of the Club?		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
You're Out of the Club? A Utah chapter of the Sierra Club has been threatened with disbandment because of its decision to speak out against the possibility of a U.S. war against Iraq. The development may bring to a head a discussion that has been going on within the club throughout the fall. In October, 13 former national board members called on the organization to pass a resolution urging the Bush admini ...
Topics: Iraq, politics, Sierra Club, United States, Utah (all these topics)

I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam For some U.S. citizens, solar panels, wind turbines, and fuel-efficient cars have become the ultimate patriotic statement. With a war looming in the Middle East, green groups are framing the cause of energy conservation in terms of national security. They are issuing reports, creating websites, and hitting the airwaves with the message that true se ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, renewable energy, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Green Day		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Green Day The Green Party says it fared well during last week's election. The Greens ran 541 candidates for office, mostly at the state or local level. That's double the number from 2000, according to Dean Myerson, the party's national political coordinator. Sixty-seven candidates were elected; overall, 171 Greens now sit in office across the country. Another milestone: Maine now boasts the only Green sitting in a state legislature. ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

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