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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)

Hot Pea Soup		25 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Hot Pea Soup Fog and rain are as much a part of London as bobbies and Buckingham Palace -- but global warming will change all that over the next half-century, according to a newly released report on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the U.K. capital. The London of the future will likely be sunnier, but don't book your vacation just yet: It could be subject to serious regular flooding, worsening air pollution, and bliste ...
Topics: climate, England, London (all these topics)

The Personal Is Political		24 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Personal Is Political Never mind corporate responsibility, or government responsibility; let's talk about personal responsibility. That's the gist of Canada's new plan for fighting global warming. The proposal, which is being released today, entails convincing every last Canuck to reduce her or his own contribution to greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton annually (or about 20 percent). Translation: cooler showers, lower thermostat ...
Topics: Canada, climate (all these topics)

A Dehli-cate Balance		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
A Dehli-cate Balance Delegates from around the world are meeting in New Delhi, India, today for the latest round of international talks on climate change. In part because the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions -- the United States -- has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the meeting is focusing on ways to adapt to climate change rather than on ways to curb it. Delegates will discuss "minimizing vul ...
Topics: climate, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

Trade Wins		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Trade Wins The market for carbon dioxide emissions credits across the world could more than triple this year as companies prepare for the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Under Kyoto, companies that reduce CO2 emissions beyond the caps set by their countries can sell credits to firms that do not meet the reduction requirements. So far, about $500 million worth of carbon ...
Topics: business, climate, Denmark, Japan, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

The Slush of Kilimanjaro		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Slush of Kilimanjaro The snow-capped peak of Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the most famous vistas on the African continent. Soon, though, you might not be able to see it in person: The mountain's 11,000-year-old snow cap shrank by 80 percent in the past century and could be gone within two decades if temperature trends continue, according to a report published today in the journal Science. The disappearance of the ic ...
Topics: business, climate, Tanzania (all these topics)

Massive a Tax		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Massive a Tax New Zealand has unveiled a carbon tax to help it meet the goals of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which the country expects to ratify by year's end. The tax, which would be implemented in 2007 assuming Kyoto has come into effect, would boost retail gas prices by up to 6 percent, diesel prices by up to 12 percent, and gas and electricity prices by as much as 9 percent, according to government doc ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, New Zealand (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)

The Iceman Cometh		01 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: climate The Iceman Cometh A Spanish scientist says that when giant gobs of ice fall from the sky, it's a sure sign of global warming. Jesus Martinez-Frias, the director of planetary geography at Spain's Astrobiology Center in Madrid, has spent the last two and a half years studying the ice meteors, known as megacryometeors. Although it may sound contradictory for global warming to produce balls of ice, Martinez-Frias has proposed that the cooling of the upper atmosphere (which r ...
Topics: climate (all these topics)

London Flog		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
London Flog Meanwhile, a very different report from the old country: Flooding caused by global warming could threaten $340 billion worth of homes and businesses in the U.K., according to the government's Energy Saving Trust. The report says that one out of every 13 homes in the country would be hit hard by rising seas and increased rainfall, while three-fifths of the country's best farmland could be rendered unusable. Just ...
Topics: climate, London, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Warm Globally, Don't Warn Locally For the first time since 1995, the U.S. EPA's annual report on air pollution trends, released earlier this month, has no section on global warming. The EPA, which deleted the chapter with White House approval, said the decision was made because the agency had released two other reports on global warming earlier in the year and because this particular report was meant to discuss only pollu ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

I'd Like My C, Under the Sea		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
I'd Like My C, Under the Sea A six-year experiment in burying carbon dioxide under the ocean has been highly successful, according to the scientists behind the project. Since 1996, CO2 emitted during methane gas exploration in the North Sea has been pumped back into the ground, where it has been trapped in a giant bubble almost a third of a mile under the floor of the ocean. The CO2 would otherwise have been released into the atmosp ...
Topics: climate, oceans, ozone (all these topics)

Mr. Green Jean		03 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Green Jean One North American leader attending the summit in Johannesburg -- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- took significant steps toward establishing his green legacy at home yesterday by unveiling a major expansion of the national parks system and promising to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by the end of the year. His plan to create 10 new parks and five marine conservation areas drew near-uni ...
Topics: Canada, climate, energy, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Sweet!		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Sweet! Along with emissions from power plants, pollution from vehicles is the major air-pollution culprit. But that could change if cars ran on sugar, as a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has proposed. In a paper published in yesterday's edition of the journal Nature, the scientists detailed a technique for breaking down a glucose solution into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen would then be pu ...
Topics: climate, renewable energy (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)

Week Links		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Week Links The first week of the World Summit on Sustainable Development has seen a mix of surprising twists and predictable problems. On the surprising end: Two very different organizations, Greenpeace International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, have agreed to join forces to combat climate change. The two groups plan to work together to convince governments to create an intern ...
Topics: climate, Greenpeace, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Think of New England		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Think of New England While tens of thousands of people from all over the world gather in South Africa to wrangle over global environmental issues, a far smaller coalition is meeting quietly this week to ensure that New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers follow through on their promise to combat climate change. The Connecticut Climate Action Group, a member of ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, New England, renewable energy (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)

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)

No Island Is an Island		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tempura's Rising		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Tempura's Rising Global warming has come to Tokyo with a vengeance: While the average global temperature has increased by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century, the average temperature in the Japanese capital has risen by more than five times that. Like most large cities, Tokyo is an island of heat. Concrete, cars, and rooftops absorb sunlight all day and discharge it at night, preventing the city from cooling; vertical bui ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Japan (all these topics)

Canada Drier		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canada Drier Global warming could spell big trouble for Canada's freshwater supply, according to a report from the government agency Natural Resources Canada. The predicted global surface-air temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century would sap some of the country's hydroelectric power potential, lower lake levels, and pave the way for severe drought on the Canadian prairies ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, lakes (all these topics)

Read Letter Day		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: climate (all these topics)

The Big Uneasy		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Big Uneasy In Louisiana, the sea-level rises caused by global warming aren't the stuff of dry scientific reports; they're already a local reality. Up to 35 square miles of the state's wetlands get a little too wet every year -- they disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. To date, Louisiana has lost an area the size of Rhode Island. Low-lying areas that have suffered years of poor environmental management are ...
Topics: climate, land degradation, Louisiana, wetlands (all these topics)

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