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Hunger Strike
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29 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ... |
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| Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (all these topics) |
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Mobil-ized
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28 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Mobil-ized Gas and oil giant ExxonMobil has increased its donations to organizations that oppose government regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions and question the notion that humans cause global climate change. Although the company has pledged $10 million a year for 10 years to climate research at Stanford University, it is also giving generously to the likes o ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Self-Destructive Behavior
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23 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Self-Destructive Behavior It sounds like a bad movie. Wait, it IS a bad movie. A bad DVD, to be precise -- at least from an environmental standpoint. A division of Walt Disney this August will begin selling DVDs that self-destruct after 48 hours, dubbed EZ-Ds. After an EZ-D's plastic packaging is opened and it's exposed to oxygen, the disk plays perfectly for 48 hours; then a chemical ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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The Anti-Pepsi Generation
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23 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Anti-Pepsi Generation Leaders of two rural communities in Kerala, a state in southwestern India, are going head-to-head with Coca-Cola and Pepsi, accusing the companies' local bottling plants of depleting groundwater and triggering shortages. One village government revoked the water-use permit of a Pepsi plant last week, and another village denied a license renewal to a Coke plant last month, though its ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, India, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Dela-Wherewithall
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21 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Dela-Wherewithall The state of Delaware, which already distinguished itself this year by approving criminal sanctions for executives at polluting companies, has now announced a voluntary program designed to give manufacturers incentives to surpass state environmental and conservation standards. The Principles for Responsible Industry program, which was announced yesterday by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D), sets ... |
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| Topics: business, Delaware, greening biz operations, news (all these topics) |
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Seedy
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19 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Seedy Members of Brazil's Landless Peasant Movement occupied a test farm owned by biotechnology giant Monsanto last week, in a bid to expel the company and establish an organic farm on the site instead. The protestors say neither the people nor the government of the Brazilian state of Parana support genetically modified (GM) crops, such as the transgenic soybeans an ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, business, environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics) |
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40 Acres and a Tax Break
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16 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| 40 Acres and a Tax Break California environmentalists and farmers rejoiced yesterday when Gov. Gray Davis (D) restored $40 million in funding for farmland and open-space protection under the Williamson Act. Together, farmers and enviros had lobbied heavily against the proposed elimination of the act, under which the state pays back counties for property taxes lost when landowners are ... |
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| Topics: business, California, food and agriculture, news, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics) |
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Pay Dirt
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15 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ... |
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| Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Beehive State Stung
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14 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Beehive State Stung Outdoor recreation retailers are threatening to pull two trade shows out of Utah because they don't like Gov. Mike Leavitt's (R) efforts to curtail wilderness designations in the state. With $24 million in trade-show-generated revenue at stake, a worried Leavitt has agreed to meet with outdoor industry leaders to discuss the matter. "The governor is very willing to start talking abou ... |
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| Topics: business, outdoor recreation, Utah, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Paper Promises
A review of Bronx Ecology and Tilting at Mills |
William Shutkin |
14 May 2003 |
Arts and Minds |
| These are tough times for environmentalists, what with the Bush administration's frontal assault on environmental policy, drastic funding cuts and layoffs in state environmental programs, and the aftermath of a war in Iraq fought, in the opinion of many, over our nation's undying addiction to oil. It's thus fitting, if somewhat disheartening, that along come two books whose central message is that it's n ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, New York, NRDC, recycling (all these topics) |
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Paper Promises
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14 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: business, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics) |
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Canada-Do Spirit
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, health (all these topics) |
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Things That Make You Go Hummer
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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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.& ... |
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| Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Daewoozy
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, South Korea (all these topics) |
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Driving Us Crazy
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Throwing It in Reverse
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics) |
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We've Got Mail
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18 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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Give a Hoot
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
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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 ... |
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| Topics: business, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Alcoa-holics
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Every Day I Rewrite the Book
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09 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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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, ... |
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