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Canada-Do Spirit		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Canada-Do Spirit Societies tend to measure progress in narrow economic terms -- gross domestic product, employment figures, trade deficits. Now an influential team in Canada is proposing that the country become the first in the world to measure its ecological health with the same care and precision. The National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy today is releasing a government-commissioned report that calls for Canada ...
Topics: business, Canada, health (all these topics)

Things That Make You Go Hummer		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
Things That Make You Go Hummer Yesterday, Grist reported that the average fuel efficiency of U.S. vehicles is at a 22-year low. Today, we're happy to report that at least people are upset about it. A survey of complaints about new vehicles, released yesterday by J. D. Powers and Associates, found that fuel consumption was the second-most-common complaint among all respondents. In the 17 years ...
Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

High and Dry Colorado's proposed water projects could sink the environment	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	29 Apr 2003	Main Dish
This March, the Denver Broncos football team agreed to spend $40 million on a seven-year contract with its new quarterback, Jake Plummer. Since winning two Super Bowls at the end of the 1990s, the Broncos have struggled just to make the playoffs. At his introductory press conference, Plummer predicted, "Winning a Super Bowl is what I believe we are going to do here.& ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Daewoozy		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Daewoozy An automobile company lobbying for stricter emissions standards? It might sound like an unlikely tale, but not when the bottom line is at stake. General Motors is pressuring the South Korean government to impose tougher standards for diesel emissions than it is currently considering. Here's why: The automaker is trying to increase the competitiveness of its Korean affiliate, G ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, South Korea (all these topics)

Driving Us Crazy		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Driving Us Crazy Toyota last week unveiled a spiffy new version of its hybrid gas-electric Prius, which will get better gas mileage (55 miles to the gallon), emit fewer air pollutants, and give passengers more room than previous Prius models. The car will hit showrooms late this year as a 2004 model. Toyota also said it plans to eventually spread its hybrid technology throughout its fleet. But sales of P ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Throwing It in Reverse		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Throwing It in Reverse Ford Motor Company backpedaled yesterday on its promise to increase the fuel economy of sport utility vehicles 25 percent by 2020. It now says it will continue to try to improve gas mileage but will not set a fixed deadline for reaching the 25-percent goal. The company chalked up the change in plan to technological difficulties and the lack of federa ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, nuclear power (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? A Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Maria Elena Foronda Farro was born to be an activist. Her father, a union lawyer in Chimbote, Peru, taught her -- through words and by example -- about the importance of social justice. Foronda, who grew up in Chimbote and earned a master's degree in sociology in Mexico, is now applying her father's lessons to her hometown. Maria Elena Foronda Farro. Photo: Richard Goldgewich ...
Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Breaking the Bank		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
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Breaking the Bank The economic heresy of Herman Daly	Lissa Harris	10 Apr 2003	Main Dish
If economics is a religion, the World Bank is perhaps its grandest church. For the last half century, the venerable institution at 1818 H Street in Washington, D.C., has been dispatching its missionaries around the globe, spreading the theology of the free market to the heathens. And if economics is a religion, Herman Daly is its arch-heretic, a member of the high priesthood turned renegade. From 1988 to 1994, Da ...
Topics: business, World Bank (all these topics)

Every Day I Rewrite the Book		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
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Alcoa-holics		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Alcoa-holics Two of the nation's corporate giants, Alcoa and Archer Daniels Midland, have agreed to settle charges of violating the New Source Review rules of the federal Clean Air Act by making upgrades ballparked at some $700 million, according to people familiar with the settlements. Alcoa, the world's largest producer of aluminum, has 12 months to cut sulfur dioxide emissions at a plant in Rockdale, Tex., by ...
Topics: air pollution, business, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Skeptical Economist Rewriting the book on economics	Lissa Harris	09 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Joshua Farley, a researcher at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, didn't get into economics to make money. In fact, he tells me, he almost quit the academy altogether to go back to carpentry -- a far more lucrative career prospect. "When I graduated, there were virtually no jobs in ecological economics. I applied to the only job I saw. Three years later, I saw three jobs in ecological economics, ...
Topics: business (all these topics)

At What Cost? Ecological economist Robert Costanza puts a price tag on nature	Lissa Harris	08 Apr 2003	Main Dish
The idea of slapping a dollar value on to an alpine meadow or the dappled green shade of a forest strikes a chill into the very bones of most environmentalists. Like love, nature is the kind of thing that money just can't buy. Or is it? A small but growing chorus of ecological economists are saying that perhaps the best way to protect nature is to figure out just how much it's worth -- in co ...
Topics: business (all these topics)

The Wealth of Nature		08 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
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Civil Wrongs		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Civil Wrongs In the South, low-income, black citizens are becoming more outspoken and effective as they fight the construction of landfills, polluting factories, and other environmentally hazardous facilities in their communities, and they're increasingly being joined by neighbors of all colors. "Companies now don't just bully in," said Robert Bullard, a sociology professor ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Dumb and Hummer		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Dumb and Hummer While sales of many big SUVs are dipping, Hummers are rumbling out of showrooms at a rate of 3,000 per month, topping the list of best-selling large luxury SUVs in the U.S., despite a starting price of $50,000. Some buyers say they feel patriotic in a massive Hummer H2, the civilian sibling of the military Humvees now doing active duty in Iraq, and Hummer dealers report that sales have risen with the war. ...
Topics: business, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics)

They Brought Bad Things to Life		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
They Brought Bad Things to Life Meanwhile, in another legal victory on the other side of the country, a federal court yesterday rejected General Electric's constitutional challenge to the U.S. EPA's power to force the company to clean up the Hudson River. From the 1940s to the 1970s, GE dumped 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the upper Hudson, where 500,000 to 700,00 ...
Topics: business, Hudson River, New York, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Hawkeyes on the Prize		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Hawkeyes on the Prize Iowa will soon be home to the world's largest land-based wind farm if MidAmerican Energy Company has its way. The power company plans to erect between 180 and 200 turbines capable of generating 310 megawatts of electricity and powering some 85,000 homes. If approved by the Iowa Public Utilities Board and state lawmakers, the $323 million project would be completed in 2006 and wou ...
Topics: business, energy, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List No surprise: Pickup trucks and oversized SUVs scored the lowest on the U.S. EPA's latest ranking of vehicles based on tailpipe emissions. The list graded vehicles on a scale of 0 to 10. Large SUVs like BMW's X5 and General Motors' Hummer H2 earned a 0 and a 2, respectively, while most small and medium SUVs earned ...
Topics: air pollution, business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

When Nature Emails		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When Nature Emails Ah, wilderness -- the chirping of birds, the burbling of creeks, the melodic chime announcing that new mail has just arrived in your inbox. Yep, that's right -- or it will be if the Colorado Department of Natural Resources has its way. In an effort to boost revenue in the middle of a massive budget shortfall, the DNR plans to make electrical outlets an ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Department of Natural Resources, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Executive Carte Blanche		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Executive Carte Blanche Chalk one up for Big Energy and its boosters in the White House. On Friday, the General Accounting Office abandoned its efforts to force Vice President Dick Cheney to turn over information about which people he met with while heading up the administration's secretive energy task force. The GAO, Congress's investigative arm, had been fighting ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, politics (all these topics)

A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Sustainability Go Down		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Sustainability Go Down The United Nations isn't generally thought of as a marketing entity -- but a little marketing savvy is just what's needed to encourage sustainable consumption habits worldwide, according to the U.N. Environment Programme. Right now, the organization says, only 5 percent of people in developed countries maint ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, green living, population, United Nations (all these topics)

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