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Got Time? On effective activism	Umbra Fisk	07 Feb 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, If an environmentalist has about six hours per week to devote to activism, what should the person do to make the biggest, most positive impact? Some people (like myself) think that climate protection is a key leverage point -- but is it? If yes, why, and what is the best way activists can help protect the climate? (And what's a leverage point anyway?) Ann Graton, Calif. Dearest Ann, Such a good question, and so important that ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, grassroots activism, green living, NRDC, placemaking (all these topics)

Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions		18 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions The greenhouse-gas emissions of cars and trucks in Canada will be cut by 25 percent by 2010, according to a duo of Canadian government ministers. In a joint interview, Natural Resources Minister John Efford and Environment Minister Stephane Dion said that they were committed to the deadline and the amount. "Are we going to ...
Topics: Canada, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Shipping News Global warming may open Northwest Passage to shipping		11 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Global warming may open Northwest Passage to shipping Global warming may melt arctic ice enough to make the legendary Northwest Passage a viable trade route, trimming almost 40 percent (roughly two weeks) off the current Asia-to-Europe route, which involves a large detour down through either the Suez or Panama canals. Some view this as a bright spot in the otherwise grim report released this week on the im ...
Topics: business, climate, placemaking (all these topics)

Ford Focus Ford develops ambitious, private plan to reduce emissions		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Ford Focus Ford develops ambitious, private plan to reduce emissions Top executives at Ford Motor Co. have set an aggressive goal to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions -- a goal that would require a roughly 80 percent improvement in the fuel economy of the company's cars and trucks by 2030. The motives behind the goal, which the company has not announced publicly, are complex. It's a business opportunity: Toyota, which has m ...
Topics: business, climate, placemaking (all these topics)

A More Perfect Union Sierra Club and Auto Workers Unite Against Bush Fuel-Economy Plan		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
A More Perfect Union Sierra Club and Auto Workers Unite Against Bush Fuel-Economy Plan Bush's new fuel-economy plan is even ticking off the United Auto Workers union. The UAW has often been at odds with enviros over auto efficiency standards, but now it's teaming up with the Sierra Club to fight the administration's proposal. In a ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Coal-hearted New Stats On Energy Use in China Alarm Environmentalists		22 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Coal-hearted New Stats On Energy Use in China Alarm Environmentalists The most populous country on the planet may also pose the biggest threat to the global climate, according to recently released statistics about coal production and consumption in China. Until a few months ago, many energy experts hoped that the nation would have a relatively limited impact on climate change, because its state-owned companies were tho ...
Topics: China, climate, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Flexible Fools Automakers Can Dodge Fuel-Economy Rules with Flex-Fuel Vehicles		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Flexible Fools Automakers Can Dodge Fuel-Economy Rules with Flex-Fuel Vehicles U.S. automakers are dramatically boosting production of "flexible-fuel" cars and trucks that can run on either gasoline or E85, a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas that results in lower greenhouse gas emissions -- but this trend is more likely to harm the environment than help it. Owners of flex-fuel vehicles almost a ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Can We Get There From Here?		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Can We Get There From Here? The U.S. transportation sector generates more carbon dioxide emissions than the entire economy of any other country in the world with the exception of China, according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The study, "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation," also found that transportation accounts for almost on ...
Topics: climate, energy, ozone, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

The Food Less Traveled		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Food Less Traveled A fledgling "buy local" movement is inspiring a growing number of Americans to get more of their food from local sources and resist an increasingly globalized agriculture industry. Today produce travels an average of 1,500 to 2,500 miles to reach Americans' plates, 25 percent farther than in 1980. Grapes, for example, make an average trek of 2,143 miles, according to a study by the Leopold Center for Su ...
Topics: climate, placemaking (all these topics)

Maple Syrup		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Maple Syrup Canada yesterday set aside $1.3 billion over five years to slash its greenhouse gas emissions and another $660 million for other environmental initiatives, as part of what Environment Minister David Anderson called "the greenest budget this country has ever seen." The government also approved a tax break for cleaner diesel and agreed to priorit ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate In what could be the first significant step toward mass-marketing fuel-cell vehicles, Toyota and Honda put the world's first such cars on the road yesterday. The cars are being leased to the Japanese government and several public organizations in the U.S. -- at the whopping price of between $6,500 and $9,800 per month, meaning the dream of widesprea ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Japan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Detroit Rock City		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Detroit Rock City Detroit automakers sure aren't complaining about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. They anticipate having a close ally in the incoming chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is known for his criticism of clean air regulations and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He once referred ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, James Inhofe, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Tripping Out		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Tripping Out A government-supported pilot project in Alberta, Canada, is offering companies greenhouse-gas credits for every employee who works from home, in order to reduce emissions associated with commuting. The plan is the first step in an effort to produce a Canadian carbon-credits market, whereby firms that cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be able to sell credits to oth ...
Topics: business, Canada, climate, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Running Knows		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Running Knows Climate change is caused by human activities -- and maybe by more of them than previously thought. That was the conclusion of a report released today by NASA, which found that land-use changes such as farming, irrigation, and urban sprawl contribute as much if not more to climate change than does the burning of fossil fuels. According to the report, changing land-uses in North Americ ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, placemaking (all these topics)

Sprawl Together Now		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Sprawl Together Now A new culprit has been named in the drought that has plagued more than a third of the U.S. this summer: urban sprawl. A report released yesterday by American Rivers, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Smart Growth America found that the rapid expansion of pavement and developed land in metropolitan areas amounts to a one-two punch for the environment. The concrete eliminates fields and grasslands, which woul ...
Topics: climate, placemaking (all these topics)

Better Living Through French Fries Is biodiesel the fuel of the future?	Hal Clifford	22 Aug 2002	Main Dish
The Granola Ayatollah of Canola, aka Charris Ford, slides behind the wheel of his 1980 International Scout truck and turns the key. The truck burbles to life and off we go, cruising down the gravel roads that divide the aspen groves of southwestern Colorado's Horsefly Mesa. It would be just a standard evening joyride, except that Ford's truck doesn't run on gasoline. Or diesel. Or electricity, or ...
Topics: climate, energy, placemaking, renewable energy (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)

I Wish They All Could Be California Governors		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I Wish They All Could Be California Governors California Gov. Gray Davis (D) signed trailblazing legislation yesterday that will require automobile manufacturers to reduce the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions coming from the tailpipes of passenger vehicles in the state. Under the terms of the new law, the California Air Resources Board has until 2005 to set "maximum" but "economically feasible" emissi ...
Topics: California, climate, placemaking (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)

Snoop Dog		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Snoop Dog Almost everyone's been embarrassed at one time or another by an over-eager dog sniffing in the wrong places. Now car owners have to worry about the "smog dog," designed to "sniff" tailpipes to detect air pollution. Formally called the AccuScan Remote Vehicle Emissions Testing System, the smog dog analyzes exhaust from cars as they pass roadside monito ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste, Virginia, West (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)

Deep Sea Diving		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Deep Sea Diving As if all the political strife weren't enough, here's more grim news from the Middle East: The Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, is getting even lower. In the last decade, the sea, which already lies more than 1,300 feet below sea level, has fallen an additional 20 feet. Scientists attribute the change to a drop in the water table around the Dead Sea, wh ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, Middle East, oceans, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Tank You Very Much		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tank You Very Much A technique invented to reduce corrosion of steel components on ships could also prevent exotic species from stowing away in the ballast water of cargo ships. The technique, which was designed by Mario Tamburri of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in collaboration with Japanese scientists, involves pumping nitrogen gas into ballast tanks, thereby virtually e ...
Topics: climate, Japan, marine life, placemaking, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Iceland Iceland Baby		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Iceland Iceland Baby Iceland is gunning to be the world's first carbon-free economy. The country is in something of a bind, as it now has very low carbon-dioxide emissions and the Kyoto treaty on climate change gives it little room to expand its economy in a way that would increase its emissions. Already, 67 percent of Iceland's energy comes from emissions-free geothermal heat and hydroelectric dams. Du ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Pounding the Pavement	Todd Hettenbach	26 Sep 2000	Counter Culture
3 million -- number of acres of open space developed each year in the U.S. 40 -- percentage increase in acreage of developed land in the U.S. between 1982 and 1997 1891 -- year in which the first road was paved in the U.S. 2.4 million -- number of miles of paved public roads in the U.S. in 1997 23 -- percentage increase in miles of paved public roads in the U.S. from 1977 to 1997 83.9 million -- number of metric tons of cement produced in the ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

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