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Haida Ho		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Haida Ho In an unusual move, unhappy employees of paper giant Weyerhaeuser are siding with native inhabitants of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida, in their legal battle against the company. Earlier this year, the Haida sued the company for control of the islands and their forests; on Monday, a reported 135 of 155 Weyerhaeuser employees on the island allied themselves with the Haida. The workers a ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, wilderness (all these topics)

Taylor-made Destruction		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Taylor-made Destruction Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, has spread instability within his nation's borders and helped foment a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. To fund the fighting, he has exploited his country's natural resources. At first, it was diamonds -- but as internati ...
Topics: Africa, business, Colombia, deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Liberia, logging, national parks, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Napa Time		31 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, California, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing Does access to information protect us, or put us at risk? That question is at the heart of an environmental debate that's taken on a different shape -- and different stakes -- since Sept. 11. At issue is the public's right to know about chemical plants and other factories manufacturing hazardous materials. Environmentalists maintain that people have a right to know about haz ...
Topics: business, Greenpeace, pollution and waste (all these topics)

TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Taipei Personalities		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Taipei Personalities More than 200 former employees of an RCA television and semiconductor plant in northern Taiwan have died of cancer and at least 1,000 others are suffering from the disease, in what industry watchdogs are calling the worst cancer cluster in the history of high-tech. A group of former plant workers arrived in Silicon Valley yesterday to tell their ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

East of Eden		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
East of Eden After years of foreign control, East Timor became the world's newest nation this week. Now the country must rise from the ashes wrought by years of brutal domination by Indonesia -- and it hopes to do so in part by capitalizing on its abundant natural beauty to attract eco-tourists. Currently, East Timor is the poorest country in Asia, but revenue from scuba diving, mountain trekking, biking, ...
Topics: business, East Timor, outdoor recreation, travel (all these topics)

Sign of the TIMOs		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Sign of the TIMOs A major shift is taking place in U.S. timber ownership, and it could have significant consequences not just for the industry but also for ecosystems across the country. Traditionally, the major private owners of forestlands in the U.S. have been forest product companies, but increasingly, such land is being bought by investment groups hoping to make money on their holdings. In the la ...
Topics: business, land stewardship, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Shaft!		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Shaft! The cost of closing and cleaning up old and abandoned mines around the world likely runs into the trillions of dollars, an amount that is far beyond anything mining companies can handle on their own, according to Robert Wilson, chair of the metals giant Rio Tinto. Wilson, who made his comments during a mining industry conference being held this week in Toronto, put the estimated cost of cleanup in the U.S. alone at $35 ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Vera, Vera Good		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Vera, Vera Good Portland, Ore., has long had a reputation for attracting Birkenstock-wearing, bike-riding, tree-hugging residents. Now city officials hope to attract Birkenstock-wearing, bike-riding, tree-hugging companies. (Okay, yes, we know companies can't really ride bikes.) Last month, Danish wind-power company Vestas Wind Systems chose Portland as the base of its U.S. operations, bringing as many as 1,000 new jobs to the a ...
Topics: business, Oregon, Portland (all these topics)

Dutch Treat		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, Netherlands, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Lion Sleeps Better Tonight		08 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: business The Lion Sleeps Better Tonight A new economic model that uses cost-benefit analyses to predict the fate of endangered species has been unveiled by New Zealand economist Robert Alexander and researcher Chris Fleming. The model analyzes the socio-economic pressures that push animals to the brink of extinction and could be used to assess the probable success or failure of conservation programs. For example, the model can weigh the economic benefits (in tourism dollars, say ...
Topics: business (all these topics)

Cells Sell		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Cells Sell The internal combustion engine took one small step toward obsolescence yesterday, when General Motors announced the addition of an 80,000-square-foot research facility in upstate New York that will be wholly dedicated to the commercialization of fuel cells. Fuel cells generate electricity by mixing hydrogen and oxygen; the only byproduct of the process is water. The Bush administration has expressed great enthusiasm for ...
Topics: business, water pollution (all these topics)

Mr. Green Genes?		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Green Genes? When you've skyrocketed into the public eye, become an overnight billionaire, and successfully mapped the human genome, what do you do next? Why, find the solution to global warming, of course. J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist who gave the federal government's Human Genome Project a run for its money and accelerated the pace of DNA sequencing by many years, now plans to figure out a way to suck carbon dioxide out of ...
Topics: business, ozone (all these topics)

Labor's Love Lost The blue-green relationship hits the skids	Keith Schneider	02 May 2002	Main Dish
The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the AFL-CIO, which represents 13 million workers in the United States, is on 16th Street just a couple of blocks north of the White House. On the morning of Sept. 11, some of the U.S. environmental movement's most influential leaders -- John Adams and Robert Kennedy, Jr., of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Carl Pope and Dan Becker of the Sierra Club, and John P ...
Topics: business, politics (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)

The Paper Chase On corporate paper recycling	Umbra Fisk	23 Apr 2002	Ask Umbra
I work for a large corporation that is very wasteful with paper. I am looking for information on whom I can complain to about this so that something will happen. They do not use recycled paper or require any recycling of paper. Beth Dearest Beth, Prepare yourself: The fate of reams of office paper is in your hands. You must be the defender of the discarded draft, the champion of the crumpled wad, the protector of the printer ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, education, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Bush Spanks Bottom Line		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, politics (all these topics)

Ski Bums		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski Bums At anywhere from $40 to $70 a pop for lift tickets, downhill skiing is one of the country's priciest sports -- yet many ski resorts pay next to nothing for the federal land on which they operate. On average, resorts located on national forests fork over just 2 percent of their revenue to use the lands; that's like a person who earns $50,000 a year paying $80 per month in rent. Some people say the arrangeme ...
Topics: business, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Litter of the Law		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Litter of the Law The Chicago-based Oil-Dri Corporation, which, as the maker of Cat's Pride, is the world's largest kitty litter company, wants to dig an open-pit clay mine on public land outside of Reno, Nev. But county commissioners have effectively thwarted that plan by refusing to issue a permit to operate a processing plant for the cat litter on nearby private property. The controversy has ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, Nevada, politics, wilderness (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)

Help Wanted A look at the hiring practices at U.S. nuclear power plants	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Could the Sept. 11 hijackers have gotten jobs at nuclear power plants? Under the current rules governing nuclear safety, at least some of them could have easily gone to work as janitors, carpenters, computer programmers, or other plant employees, according to Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer who works for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Before last fall's terrorist attacks, utili ...
Topics: business, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Boise in the Hood		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Boise in the Hood Timber giant Boise Cascade said quietly last week that it would phase out old-growth logging in the next two years. Almost all the old growth cut by Boise Cascade in recent years has come from federal land, and the company said its plan reflected a shift in federal forest management away from felling the big trees. The company said enviro protests had had little impact on the decision to change its logging practices. In ...
Topics: business, logging (all these topics)

Sticker Shocker		06 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Sticker Shocker But never fear, there's still some hope: Eco-friendly products might not be raking in the dough, but 60 percent of new-car buyers say they would purchase a more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle, even if it raised the sticker price of the car. That was the conclusion of a study released today by auto industry research firm J.D. Power and Associates, which also found that nearl ...
Topics: business, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Nothing New		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Nothing New In what was billed as her first major environmental speech of the year, Interior Secretary Gale Norton called Wednesday for "a new environmentalism" in which local residents and landowners, not just the government, would take responsibility for protecting the Earth. Norton also called for an environmentalism that did not threaten jobs. The Interior secretary said that a number ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

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