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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing -- really	Mathew Gross, Writers on the Range	08 Mar 2000	Soapbox
That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas -- $1.41 per gallon -- is a full 25 cents higher than it was merely four months ago, and analysts predict that the price could hit $1.80 per gallon before supplies catch up with d ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, gas prices, placemaking, United States, Utah (all these topics)

Two	Josh Sevin	17 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
percentage of the Earth's surface covered by cities percentage of the Earth's surface covered by rainforests number of miles of highway laid down in Florida each day percent by which global energy use is projected to increase annually over the next 15 years factor by which an average home generates more greenhouse-gas pollution than an average car percent by which use of oil grew each year between 1990 and 1998 factor by which the volume of oil transported throughou ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

I Double Dare Ya	Ben White	08 Nov 1999	Muckraker
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank not known as a particular favorite of enviros, issued a debate challenge to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change last week. In a letter published as an ad in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, CEI Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp, a one-time vice presidential candidate, congressman, football star, and all-around free-market guru, challenges the Pew Center to repudiate "alarmist ad ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Muckraker, placemaking, politics, sprawl (all these topics)

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