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Unusual Weather We're Having, Ain't It? Number-crunchers say 2006 on track to be the sixth-hottest on record		15 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Unusual Weather We're Having, Ain't It? Number-crunchers say 2006 on track to be the sixth-hottest on record As 2006 limps to a close, it's measuring in as the world's sixth-hottest year on record. It's the warmest Britain has seen since wenches were hoisting tankards of grog (er, since records began in 1659), and the third-warmest in the U.S.'s Lower 48 since 1880. Weird weather has gripped the globe ...
Topics: climate, news, oceans, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Millionaires Beg for Change Business execs and military leaders smack down Bush energy policy		14 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Millionaires Beg for Change Business execs and military leaders smack down Bush energy policy Prominent business execs and retired military officers are down on their knees begging Congress and the Bush administration to cut U.S. dependence on oil. "It's the height of folly for the U.S. to continue on this course, lest we have some major economic or national-security problem," says FedEx CEO Frederick ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics)

Folks, We're Encountering Some Turbulence E.U. and U.S. at odds over emissions cap for intercontinental flights		06 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Folks, We're Encountering Some Turbulence E.U. and U.S. at odds over emissions cap for intercontinental flights In two weeks, E.U. environment commissioner Stavros Dimas will unveil draft rules for capping airline emissions, and we'll give you one guess who's blocking the runway. At issue is whether to regulate intercontinental flights that use European airports for takeoff or landing, or to just regulate ...
Topics: European Union, news, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Kick It into Underdrive Americans driving less, SUV fervor cooling		04 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Kick It into Underdrive Americans driving less, SUV fervor cooling Who woulda thunk it: For the first time in 25 years, Americans are driving less. A study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates finds that the average American drove 13,657 miles in 2005, down from 13,711 in 2004. So that's, let's see ... um, carry the one ... a whopping 54 miles. We'll take it! Last year also saw SUVs comprise a smaller chunk of new-vehic ...
Topics: news, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Reclaiming Thanksgiving America's national feast has seen better days, but remains well worth preserving	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overpower it. -- Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Eat, drink, and be mindful. Photo: iStockphoto Does Thanksgiving suck? There's certainly a potent case to be made. In a land where communal eating is honored mostly in the breach, ...
Topics: agriculture, food, holiday, slow food, United States, Victual Reality (all these topics)

A Loom with a View The U.S. organic cotton industry has a tough row to hoe		20 Nov 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Taking It From All Sides Bush faces climate criticism from greens, U.S. mayors, entire world		16 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Taking It From All Sides Bush faces climate criticism from greens, U.S. mayors, entire world You know how, when you're making a bad choice, your friends try to tell you, but you can't see it? Listen up, Bush administration. In a speech yesterday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan cited a "frightening lack of leadership" on climate change. He later said he wasn't pointing at the U.S., but you wouldn't ...
Topics: climate, news, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Out on a Ledge If global warming is an emergency, then let's act like it	Mike Tidwell	14 Nov 2006	Soapbox
On a recent Monday morning, at exactly 8 a.m., a dozen global-warming activists converged in Washington, D.C., at the main entrance to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Will a D.C. protest get the ball rolling? Photo: climateemergency.org Two activists dressed as window washers -- painter's hats on, squeegees in hand -- carried a 32-foot extension ladder to the building's main ...
Topics: climate, United States (all these topics)

Snob Appeal Why everyone should be allowed to love food with unrestrained glee	Tom Philpott	08 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
I spend hours at a time in the kitchen, I approach my morning coffee with a quasi-religious fervor, and the attention I grant beer and wine selection can border on the Talmudic. Am I a food snob? Diverse authorities -- including my mother, a certain Grist writer, and several friends -- have claimed as much. Foodies bite. Photo: iStockphoto And while they mean it with affection, their co ...
Topics: agriculture, food, slow food, United Kingdom, United States, Victual Reality (all these topics)

To Tell the Truth An artist invokes the spirit of courageous Americans, past and present	Robert Shetterly	07 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Editor's note: We asked painter Robert Shetterly to share part of a portrait collection and book he's created called "Americans Who Tell the Truth." In addition to eco-legends such as Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and even Grist friend Bill McKibben, the artist profiles lesser-known activists who have shown us how to fight loud and proud, every da ...
Topics: art, Bill McKibben, green living, United States (all these topics)

Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Adventures in Agriculture U.S. gets approval for ozone-depleting pesticide, despite international objections Pursuing its goal of world destruction (mwahaha!), the U.S. won approval to continue using and making a pesticide banned under an international ozone treaty. The decision, which countered the recommendation of the treaty's technical committee, allows a 5,900-ton methyl bromide exemption in 2008 -- ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Thou Shalt Not Passage Canada, U.S. debate shipping rights in legendary Northwest Passage		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Thou Shalt Not Passage Canada, U.S. debate shipping rights in legendary Northwest Passage Remember when we said Canadians were needy? Well, get a load of this: they want to maintain control over shipping rights in the legendary Northwest Passage, just because they own it. The nerve! With climate change melting Arctic ice, the Atlantic-to-Pacific byway -- long traveled seasonally by ice-breakers and stealthily by submar ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, news, United States (all these topics)

Under the Macroscope Protests, international conference focus on U.S. climate stubbornness		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Under the Macroscope Protests, international conference focus on U.S. climate stubbornness How many delegates does it take to convince the U.S. to address climate change? No one knows, but the 5,000 gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the latest U.N. climate conference are giving it a shot. The two-week event opened today with remarks from Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori: "We are all gathered this morning on behalf ...
Topics: climate, Kenya, news, United States (all these topics)

Standing on Protocol U.S. requests exemption from ban on ozone-depleting pesticide, again		03 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Standing on Protocol U.S. requests exemption from ban on ozone-depleting pesticide, again At a meeting in New Delhi this week, thumb firmly attached to nose, the U.S. is seeking to convince fellow signers of an international ozone-layer treaty that it should be allowed to continue to use and produce a pesticide it had agreed to ban by 2005. With a stockpile of nearly 11,000 tons of methyl bromide -- which not only deple ...
Topics: news, ozone, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Hauntingly Familiar Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses		31 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Hauntingly Familiar Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses World reaction to yesterday's U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift -- and painfully predictable. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his likely successor Gordon Brown hailed the findings, Kyoto-resisters Australia and the U.S. offered more lukewarm responses. A ...
Topics: Australia, climate, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

We Will Rebury You Bush and Putin may look to store radwaste at site of Russian nuclear catastrophe		27 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
We Will Rebury You Bush and Putin may look to store radwaste at site of Russian nuclear catastrophe Besides the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the deadliest nuclear catastrophe in history happened ... no, not at Chernobyl, but in Chelyabinsk, Russia. In the mid-20th century, three disasters in the area spread contamination from a nuke-weapons complex, but the news was hushed up by the KGB and CIA. So what b ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Two's Company, 300 Million's a Crowd U.S. population hits 300 million		17 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Two's Company, 300 Million's a Crowd U.S. population hits 300 million This morning at 7:46 eastern daylight time, the 300 millionth American was either born or crossed the border. Person 300 Million is here just in time for bitter pre-election immigration debates: 40 percent of the U.S. population growth rate is attributed to immigration, and immigrants make up the largest proportion of the nation's population since the 192 ...
Topics: news, population, United States (all these topics)

'Hood Intentions LEED is expanding to neighborhoods, and Doug Farr is leading the way	Charles Shaw	12 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Doug Farr was heading into The Grind, a local fair-trade coffee spot in Chicago's swanky Lincoln Square neighborhood, when he ran into Peter Nicholson, the organizer of the city's monthly Green Drinks. The two well-heeled unofficial flag-wavers for the local green scene exchanged enthusiastic greetings, and began discussing the latest goings-on. Doug Farr. "Ugh. I'm really over ...
Topics: Chicago, consumerism, green living, greening biz operations, innovation, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala		03 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Forgive and Let Live Debt-for-nature swap will protect rainforests in Guatemala About 20 percent of Guatemala's debt to the United States will be forgiven in exchange for forest conservation efforts in the Central American nation, officials announced yesterday. It's the largest debt-for-nature swap carried out under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, which allows debt owed to the U.S. to be inve ...
Topics: Central America, news, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

So That's Why We Can Never Find a Parking Space U.S. population to hit 300 million in October		27 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
So That's Why We Can Never Find a Parking Space U.S. population to hit 300 million in October As the U.S. population ticks ever closer to the 300 million mark -- 299,800,000-plus and counting! -- many enviros worry that the rising numbers will amplify existing environmental problems. "The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world experiencing significant population growth," says Vicky Markham of the Cent ...
Topics: news, population, United States (all these topics)

Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain		22 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain The U.S. government admitted last week that its commercial supply of long-grain rice has been contaminated by an illegal, untested, genetically modified strain with the warm-and-fuzzy name of LLRICE 601. The European Union, the biggest importer of U.S. long-grain rice, may decide to delay or ban imports; Japan ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Japan, news, United States (all these topics)

Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Surprise-Side Economics While cutting back on mercury at home, the U.S. exports it abroad		08 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Surprise-Side Economics While cutting back on mercury at home, the U.S. exports it abroad Like Mickey said, it's a small world after all, and pollution that gets exported can end up coming back home. Case in point: mercury, a neurotoxin especially dangerous to children and women of childbearing age. The U.S. is cutting down on the use of mercury, and has passed laws to limit mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. But t ...
Topics: news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Peak oil and politics	John McGrath	03 Aug 2006	Gristmill

Topics: Cuba, David Suzuki, oil, politics, Russia, TV, United States (all these topics)

Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears		19 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears A polar-bear-protecting treaty between the U.S. and Russia was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives this week. It would prohibit the possession, sale, and purchase of polar bears or parts thereof (ew!), and also set quotas on hunting by Native populations. Currently, Native Americans are allowed to hunt polar bears for subsistence; there is ...
Topics: Arctic, news, Russia, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

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