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The Slush of Kilimanjaro		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Slush of Kilimanjaro The snow-capped peak of Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the most famous vistas on the African continent. Soon, though, you might not be able to see it in person: The mountain's 11,000-year-old snow cap shrank by 80 percent in the past century and could be gone within two decades if temperature trends continue, according to a report published today in the journal Science. The disappearance of the ic ...
Topics: business, climate, Tanzania (all these topics)

Billy Clubbed		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Billy Clubbed Speaking of the whims of a chief executive: Ford Motor Company is currently struggling to strike a balance between the company's financial woes and the eco-friendly inclinations of CEO and Chair William Clay Ford, Jr. So far, the former seem to be winning out: In its latest corporate citizenship report, released this week, the company says it is having trouble meeting its ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Green Eyeshades		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Green Eyeshades Scared off by corporate accounting scandals and a year of bad economic indicators, big investors are starting to keep an eye out for other possible financial red flags -- and the hidden risks associated with global warming are high on their lists. As increasing temperatures trigger environmental changes ranging from drought to rising sea levels, investors are growing wise to the poss ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

In Good Company Cutting emissions to raise profits	Amanda Griscom	31 Jul 2002	Powers That Be
As the epidemic of accounting scandals continues to spread and the term Corporate Responsibility rings with the oppressive severity of an 11th Commandment, it's nice to catch a little glimpse of the brighter side: A growing number of U.S. companies have been making voluntary pledges to reform their internal operations in order to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming. And surprisingly -- or mayb ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Auto-ah!		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Auto-ah! The Canadian government has proposed levying a tax on motorists to help pay for implementing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The Canadian Automobile Association, which represents some 4 million vehicle owners, calculated that the tax would be roughly $1,200 per year, based on 15 cents per mile of urban driving and three cents per mile of out-of-city driving. The CAA excoriated ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Canada, climate, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Corn Huskers Motion		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Corn Huskers Motion By a vote of 68 to 31, the Senate yesterday killed an attempt to remove a measure in the Democratic energy bill requiring U.S. refiners to triple their use of ethanol by 2012. The measure would increase nationwide use of the corn-based fuel additive from about 1.7 billion gallons this year to 5 billion gallons by 2012. That's good news for corn-growing farmers; many environmentalists also back the m ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

You Say You Want a Resolution		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
You Say You Want a Resolution Do investors care if the companies benefiting from their dollars are contributing to global warming? Increasingly, the answer may be yes: Global warming is the fastest-growing resolutions category tracked by the Investor Responsibility Research Center and the Social Investment Forum, according to data released last week. So far this year, 18 global warming resolutions have been filed by shareholders -- as com ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Low-carbon Riders		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Low-carbon Riders In a move that could have radical implications for the automobile industry, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would make it the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a step toward curbing global warming. Because about 10 percent of the nation's new cars are sold in California, legislation affecting emis ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, climate, ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Putt-Putting Green'		30 Nov 2001	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Putt-Putting Green" 30 Nov 2001
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

The Slush of Mount Kilimanjaro		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Slush of Mount Kilimanjaro Many favorite vacation spots around the world are threatened by global warming. For example, the snow atop Mount Kilimanjaro may be around for just 15 more years and the glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana may last just 70 more, according to recent studies. Would you like to travel to an uncomfortably hot and smoggy Paris -- or a Martinique beset by hurricanes? "Glob ...
Topics: business, climate, national parks, Tanzania (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Help Me, I'm Melting! Industry is talking about climate change. Why aren't the presidential candidates?	Ross Gelbspan	29 Sep 2000	Main Dish
Like the nine-foot-deep blanket of ice at the top of the world, America's denial of the climate crisis is melting. In hot water in the Antarctic. Photo: Michael Van Woert, NOAA. And like the North Pole, it is melting from the top down. Over the last year, in the wake of steady alarms from leaders of the insurance industry, growing numbers of oil and auto company ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

A Swiftly Tilting Planet		01 Apr 2000	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, business, climate (all these topics)

This Is Not a Polish Joke Industrious endeavors in the former Soviet empire	David Helvarg	11 Nov 1999	Main Dish
America's market-based solutions to environmental problems tend to look a lot like something you might have seen in an old Soviet propaganda film. Real Soviet propaganda. Take emissions trading. Under this system, I, an evil capitalist, sell you, another evil capitalist, the right to spew tons of air pollution, which I can do because I've produced less than the legal limit of allowable sulfur ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, energy (all these topics)

Rappin' with Joe Cool An interview with Joseph Romm on becoming a cool company	Lisa Hymas	13 Jul 1999	Arts and Minds
Cool Companies by Joseph J. Romm Island Press, 1999, 277 pages Joseph Romm is director of the nonprofit Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which helps businesses reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In 1997, he served as assistant secretary of energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Energy Department. Romm's new book, Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits an ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, interview (all these topics)

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