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Balancing the Book A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment	Chip Giller	25 Oct 2000	Arts and Minds
Earth in the Balance By Al Gore Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 2000 How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager. The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from th ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Burning Rubber	Todd Hettenbach	13 Oct 2000	Counter Culture
6.5 million -- number of tires recalled this year by Bridgestone/Firestone 270 million -- number of scrap tires generated in the U.S. in 1998 500 million -- number of scrap tires currently in U.S. stockpiles 35 -- number of U.S. states that ban whole tires from landfills 59 -- number of tire fires in the U.S. between 1996 and 1998 14 million -- number of tires consumed in a 1990 tire fire in Hagersville, Ontario, the largest tire fire in history, whi ...
Topics: energy, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

The Cars Are Stacked Against Us		03 Oct 2000	Daily Grist
The Cars Are Stacked Against Us While a few small cars being sold in U.S. showrooms get 40 or more miles to the gallon, the vast majority of 2001 model year vehicles get about 20 mpg, according to annual fuel economy statistics released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans drove down the mileage figures. Just like the previous ...
Topics: cars, Department of Energy, energy efficiency, green products, hybrids, United States (all these topics)

Pounding the Pavement	Todd Hettenbach	26 Sep 2000	Counter Culture
3 million -- number of acres of open space developed each year in the U.S. 40 -- percentage increase in acreage of developed land in the U.S. between 1982 and 1997 1891 -- year in which the first road was paved in the U.S. 2.4 million -- number of miles of paved public roads in the U.S. in 1997 23 -- percentage increase in miles of paved public roads in the U.S. from 1977 to 1997 83.9 million -- number of metric tons of cement produced in the ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Species on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown A record pace of extinction threatens American flora and fauna	Elizabeth Grossman	19 Sep 2000	Arts and Minds
"The last quarter of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th has been called the most destructive period in the history of American wildlife," writes David Wilcove, senior ecologist with Environmental Defense, in his perspicacious book, The Condor's Shadow. But he makes the case that the fin de si�cle era has a daunting rival in our current ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Yanking His Cheney	Ben White	25 Jul 2000	Muckraker
Environmentalists are wasting no time in aiming their fire at former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who this morning became George W. Bush's running mate on the GOP presidential ticket. Enviros are criticizing Cheney's voting record in the House -- he got only a 13 percent career approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters -- and knocking his environmental record as current chair and CEO of the Halliburton oil company. Cheney says cheese. ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Howl I saw the best wolves of my generation destroyed by madness	Susan Zakin	20 Jul 2000	Soapbox
Gray days for wolves. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for the gray wolf, totem animal for the Clinton administration's conservation legacy, is likely to be ratcheted down from endangered to threatened, thanks to a proposal unveiled last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Its announcement was a fitting coda to eight years of an administration that we kept wishing would do better. ...
Topics: national parks, politics, ranching, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		30 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 30 Jun 2000 LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. Today I'm writing from my aunt Beth and uncle Chris's house in Illinois, where they li ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		29 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Two weeks ago today began the craziness on Capitol Hill. Alex, Eric, and I rushed from o ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		28 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 28 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. I've been waiting for this day for nearly five months. This morning I slept until noon. ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		27 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Caribou in the Alaskan wilderness. Coffee, anyone? Photo: Dean Biggens, USFWS. This morni ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		26 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 26 Jun 2000 TURTON, S.D. The rain is falling this morning as I write from my dad's hometown of Turton, S.D. It's a small ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Dough -- Oh Dear! Should campaign finance reform become the next big green issue?	Phillip Shabecoff	19 Apr 2000	Arts and Minds
Portions of the following essay were adapted from the new book Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century. "Politics," said Will Rogers, "has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." And that was in the 1930s. The green stuff. Politics today is a lot more expensive. In the 1997-1998 fiscal year, which included an o ...
Topics: business, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Gas 'n' Uh-oh	Adam I. Lowe	29 Mar 2000	Counter Culture
40 percent -- petroleum's share of global energy consumed in 1998 $246 -- amount spent by the author on gasoline to drive a 1987 Honda Accord 5,700 miles on a cross-country road trip from Feb. 15 to March 15, 2000 $433 -- estimated amount the author would have spent if he had driven a new Ford Explorer 4WD, the most popular sports utility vehicle in the U.S. $725 -- the cost of an equivalent amount of gas in 1981, adjusted for inflation to today's dollar ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing -- really	Mathew Gross, Writers on the Range	08 Mar 2000	Soapbox
That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas -- $1.41 per gallon -- is a full 25 cents higher than it was merely four months ago, and analysts predict that the price could hit $1.80 per gallon before supplies catch up with d ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, gas prices, placemaking, United States, Utah (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest	Josh Sevin	01 Mar 2000	Counter Culture
20 percent of Earth's original forests remain undisturbed 13 percent of original forests in the Pacific Northwest remain undisturbed 1 to 2 percent of original forests in the U.S. remain undisturbed 2.47 acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, an area approximately the size of two U.S. football fields 214,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day, an area larger than New York City 78 million acres of rainforest are destroyed each year, a ...
Topics: rainforests, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Cattle Prod Why we need to push livestock off public lands	Debra Donahue, Writers on the Range	25 Feb 2000	Soapbox
Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain't no cow country." That's what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine. That's also the bottom line of a book I've written, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Old McDonald Had a Fish Do you know where your salmon comes from?	Richard Manning	09 Feb 2000	Arts and Minds
Salmon Nation Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman, Ecotrust, 1999, 80 pages This essay is excerpted from the new book Salmon Nation: People and Fish at the Edge, published by the environmental group Ecotrust. Thirty percent of the world's salmon now come from hatcheries, but wild fish account for only another twenty to thirty percent. Almost all of those wild fish come from waters around Al ...
Topics: Canada, fishing, food, United States (all these topics)

McCain Is on the Money	Donella H. Meadows	07 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
I've had the fun of voting in six New Hampshire primaries, but this one I had to sit out. I've just moved three miles across the river and become a Vermonter. It was strange to watch all the foofuraw from across the state boundary. I still bumped into the candidates as they cruised the valley, canoed on the river, glad-handed in parking lots, blocked traffic with campaign buses. I still got inundated with their ads. I listened as New Ha ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Paper Chase	Josh Sevin	02 Feb 2000	Counter Culture
a 50 percent increase in worldwide paper consumption is expected by 2010 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers 700 pounds of paper are consumed by the average American each year 10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday cards 3 cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by one ton of recycled paper 77 percent of paper is recycled in the Netherlands 67 percent of paper is recycled in Germany 52 percent of paper ...
Topics: China, Germany, green living, Japan, Netherlands, recycling, United States (all these topics)

A Kick in the Grass	Josh Sevin	26 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
20 million acres of U.S. land are covered by lawn 1 hour spent mowing a lawn with a gas-powered mower produces as many emissions as 50 hours spent driving an average car 5 percent of U.S. air pollution in summer months is emitted by gas-powered lawn equipment 27,000 gallons of water are needed each week to maintain an acre of lawn 35 percent of all household water is used to tend yards 32 million pounds of pesticides were used on U.S. lawns in 1994 S ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Car Talk	Josh Sevin	19 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
70 million motor vehicles were on the world's roads in 1950 630 million motor vehicles were on the world's roads in 1994 1 billion motor vehicles are expected to be on the world's roads by 2025, if the current growth rate continues 12,000 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted by the average car each year 5 percent of a car's fuel can be wasted by underinflated tires 2 billion gallons of gasoline could be saved annually if 65 million car owners kept their tires p ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

Who Dropped the Green from the GOP? A Republican berates his party for abandoning the environment	Karl Hess, Jr.	11 Jan 2000	Soapbox
Republicans are handing Democrats a green Y2K. So far, GOP presidential contenders have all but conceded the environmental issue to Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Rather than fight for the conservation mantle that was once the GOP's, they seem content to not ask and not tell when it comes to the nation's land, air, water, and wildlife. At best, Republican environmental polic ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, West, wildlife (all these topics)

What's So Funny About Greenpeace, Love, and Understanding? Part II	Ben White	20 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Last week, we aired the ranting of a former Greenpeace USA staffer about the current state of the organization in the wake of the recent decision by the board of directors to resign en masse. This week, we offer a forum to Craig Culp, director of media affairs at Greenpeace, who, shall we say, was less than thrilled at the anonymous flame from the former staffer. Culp said the board simply came to a po ...
Topics: Greenpeace, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics)

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