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The Oriente Express		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Oriente Express Native residents of the rainforests of Ecuador and Peru were dealt a blow late last week when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied their petition to reopen litigation against the oil giant ChevronTexaco for devastating their environment and exposing them to carcinogenic pollutants. The court upheld an earlier ruling, which found that ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, environmental justice, Peru, politics, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

Shell Game?		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: business Shell Game? In addition to the environmentalists, politicians, and scientists who will gather next week in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, another constituency will be amply represented -- business interests. Many high-profile companies plan to use the summit to burnish their environmental images and make the case that principles and profits can mix. Although some environmentalists believes a number of companies are genuinely ...
Topics: business (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)

Choosy Administrations Choose GEF		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Choosy Administrations Choose GEF The U.S. and 31 other countries pledged this week to allocate a total of $2.92 billion over four years to support the Global Environmental Facility, an international fund to promote clean and efficient energy, biodiversity protection, and water-restoration efforts in developing nations. The Bush administration contributed $500 million of that total, but is currently about $270 million in ...
Topics: business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Catch As Quechua Can		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Catch As Quechua Can Until recently, there were only two roads out of poverty for Ecuador's Quechua people: cutting down the rainforest (thereby destroying habitat and soil fertility alike) or trading with warring factions in neighboring Colombia (thereby opening the door for that country's violence to spread into Ecuador). Now there is a third, far better option: the Callari project, a marketing cooper ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, food and agriculture, population (all these topics)

Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away To the extent that somebody in the auto industry could be the darling of environmentalists, that somebody is William Clay Ford, Jr., chair and CEO of Ford Motor Co. Ford, who has earned kudos in the past for his eco-friendly outlook but has more recently drawn barbed comments from greenies, said yesterday that America's love affair with the automobile could be threatened by the i ...
Topics: business, California, ozone, placemaking (all these topics)

Pick Your Poison		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Pick Your Poison In the First World, debate over genetically modified (GM) foods is about differing ideologies; in southern Africa, where famine is deepening its grip, it is about life and death. The U.S. has offered to provide emergency food aid in the form of corn to seven stricken African countries, but some of that corn has been genetically modified. That leaves the governments of those nati ...
Topics: Africa, business, GMOs, health, population, United States (all these topics)

To Russia, With Empty Tanks		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Russia, With Empty Tanks As President Bush weighs the pros and cons of waging war on Iraq, the issue of U.S. oil energy security looms large. And although no one would have believed it 50 years ago, the U.S. is increasingly contemplating Russia as a stable and desirable alternative source of oil. The strategic partnership between the Cold War-era e ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Middle East, oceans, politics, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Amazon Quivers		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Quivers Deep in the southeastern jungles of Peru, a stand-off has begun between illegal loggers and some of the world's last wholly isolated indigenous groups. Around 400 native Amazonians, who traditionally have little to no contact with the outside world, have emerged to try to run the illegal loggers off the land. After four of the loggers were reportedly injured with arrows, others called for reinforcemen ...
Topics: Brazil, business, logging, rainforests (all these topics)

Cruise Control		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cruise Control Norwegian Cruise Line, the fourth-largest cruise company in the world, will pay a $1.5 million fine for illegally dumping oil and untreated wastewater into the ocean, and subsequently lying about its actions. The company kept a false logbook and for three years lied to the Coast Guard about unlawful discharges off the coast ...
Topics: Alaska, business, Florida, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Oh, What a Bad Feeling		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ...
Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (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)

Balkan Death Grip		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Balkan Death Grip Fleeing extreme poverty, thousands of Albanians are squatting in and near the abandoned Porto Romano chemical plant -- one of the most severely contaminated sites in the Balkans, with soil and groundwater pollutants at 4,000 times the levels considered acceptable by the European Union. Despite admonitions from United Nations experts, the Albanian government has failed to put up fences or warn ...
Topics: business, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, I'm Glad I'm Not in the Land of Cotton For the first time, genetically modified insects have been released in the wild, in a secret location in the cotton fields of Arizona. The insects, pink bollworms, were modified by scientists to effectively destroy their own species; they are designed to be sterile, so that when they mate with natural bollworms, no offspring will result. Concern about the development is coming f ...
Topics: Arizona, business, GMOs, wildlife (all these topics)

Khmer Green?		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Khmer Green? A new kind of battle is taking place in Cambodia, this one between conservationists and international paper companies. Cambodia's central Cardamom Mountains were a stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, and as such were avoided by timber companies and others who feared being kidnapped or killed. With the Khmer Rouge largely subdued, however, timber companies have started to make good on current logg ...
Topics: business, Cambodia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Brother, Can You Paradigm?		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: business (all these topics)

The New New Economy It's time to change the way economists think about ecology	Lester R. Brown	13 Jun 2002	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. You can download the book for free or order a hard copy from the Earth Policy Institute. In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," in which he challenged the view that the sun revolved around the Earth, arguing instead that the Earth revolved ...
Topics: business, green living (all these topics)

Dropping the Bali		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dropping the Bali Negotiations at a two-week meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to establish the agenda for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development ended in stalemate on Friday. Delegates could not agree on several key issues and were ultimately forced to admit defeat; former Indonesian Environment Minister Emil Salim, who chaired the meeting, blamed the failure on a lack of good faith among the negotiators. The contentious issu ...
Topics: business, placemaking (all these topics)

Much Bali-hoo About Nothing Public interest groups fight for elbow room in Indonesia	David Case	07 Jun 2002	Main Dish
Thousands of people have gathered on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, to talk about poverty and environmental degradation in preparation for the August 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Yet the big question among public interest participants here is not how to solve the world's woes, but rather whether they should participate at all. Try cr ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, politics (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)

Foresight Is 20/20		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Foresight Is 20/20 California state regulators unanimously approved a measure yesterday that will allow Golden State residents to save up to 20 percent on their electric bills by conserving power. Beginning in July, households that use 15 to 20 percent less electricity than they used in 2000 (before the energy crisis) will receive an additional, proportional ...
Topics: business, California, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

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)

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