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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Revolution Will Not Be Discounted New Wal-Mart documentary may be a sign of upheavals to come	Ken Eisen	22 Nov 2005	Arts and Minds
Last week's release of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price -- not, for the most part, in movie theaters, but rather in "churches, family businesses, schools, living rooms, community centers, and parking lots," as the film's website puts it -- marks a high-water moment in leftist media-based organizing. Image: walmartmovie.com. Director/producer Robert Greenwald ad ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

All Bottled Up Bottled water flies off the shelves, but smart money is on filter systems	P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	04 May 2004	Earthly Possessions
Thirsty for facts on bottled water? When the United Nations declared 2003 the International Year of Freshwater, they likely weren't thinking of Perrier. And yet bottled water has become freshwater's most high-profile face, from Evian to Dasani and scores of other brands that now crowd store shelves. Why have products that cost 240 to 10,000 times more per ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, water pollution (all these topics)

Certifiably Insane? Wood-labeling program less green than it appears	Jeff Shaw	23 Feb 2004	Main Dish
If you've got plans to undertake a woodworking project -- building a deck, say, or a fancy new china cabinet -- you're probably not going to figure a plane ticket to Burma or Humboldt County, Calif., into the budget, even if you'd like to be sure that the wood you'll use has been harvested sustainably. Hence, the rise of green labeling: a convenient way for consumers to put their money where their value ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Forest Stewardship Council, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Jesus Christ's Supercar? Hybrid SUVs to Hit U.S. Market This Year		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Jesus Christ's Supercar? Hybrid SUVs to Hit U.S. Market This Year While a "green SUV" may sound like an oxymoron, Toyota and Ford plan to roll out new gas-electric hybrid SUVs later this year that warrant the label "greener" -- or, at least, less egregiously wasteful. Ford's hybrid Escape will hit U.S. showrooms this summer, while Toyota will start selling a hybrid versio ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nativity Scene Native Peoples Speak Up for Their Lands Indigenous peoples are rallying for their lands and their rights this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where a major U.N. convention on biodiversity is taking place. Representatives of native peoples are demanding the right to reject development proje ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, green living, Indonesia, Malaysia, placemaking, South America, United Nations (all these topics)

It's What's on the Outside That Counts Cadbury to Use Biodegradable Packaging for Chocolates		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
It's What's on the Outside That Counts Cadbury to Use Biodegradable Packaging for Chocolates Earth-loving chocoholics, take heart: British chocolate giant Cadbury Schweppes announced yesterday that it will begin using biodegradable candy trays that look like plastic but dissolve in water. At first, the new packaging will only be available in Australia, but the company is talking about using the technology ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly 'Java Log' Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly "Java Log" Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market Ah, winter -- icicles on the eves, smoke rising from the chimneys, a crackling fire, and emerging from it, that fragrant, familiar smell of ... coffee? Yep, that's right: A Canadian company is marketing fake logs made of recycled coffee grounds. Other fake logs, made of everything from sa ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides New Leaf Paper, a small but fast-growing recycled paper company in San Francisco, aims to revolutionize the paper industry -- a revolution that's sorely needed. Ninety percent of printing and writing paper in the U.S. still has no recycled content at all, says Susan Kinsella, executive director of the nonprofit Conservatree. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies It's not often that an environmental organization takes out a full-page ad in the New York Times to praise a forest-products company, so it's safe to say that Boise Cascade Corp. has done something extraordinary. This week, the company reconfirmed its commitment to phasing out old-growth harvesting in the U.S. by 2004 and agreed to ado ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Crying Shaman		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Crying Shaman A new oil pipeline that will run from the Russian region of Buryatiya into China is being hailed by industry officials and government leaders as a major economic boon, but many local residents beg to differ. Construction of the pipeline will involve bulldozing land and felling trees -- environmental problems anywhere and ...
Topics: Asia, China, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, green living, logging, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Great Build		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Great Build It's not clear if the problem is one of economics or one of spin, but either way, environmentally conscious building design is a concept that hasn't quite caught on. The technology and expertise to build "green" structures have been around for decades; now, a movement is underway to sell developers on the economic benefits of green building. In an ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living, New York, placemaking (all these topics)

Not Buying It		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, education, green living (all these topics)

Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

A Catalog of Ills		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Catalog of Ills Of the 17 billion catalogs mailed every year to American consumers (that's 59 catalogs for each and every one of us!), a surprising few contain recycled materials. An Environmental Defense survey released yesterday found that only six of 42 major catalog companies are using significant amounts of recycled paper, and most don't use any. Nary a sing ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Environmental Defense Fund, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Feeling Gassy		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Feeling Gassy Negotiators for the U.S. House and Senate have reached an agreement on new fuel-economy rules that would expand rather than decrease the country's oil consumption. Under the agreement, automakers would continue to receive credits through the model year 2008 for manufacturing vehicles that can run on both ethanol and gasolin ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Pax With the Devil		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Pax With the Devil Enron is seldom called "socially conscious" these days -- but that's how some investment companies routinely described the company in the not-too-distant past. The Pax World Balanced Fund, which promotes investing in good corporate citizens, and the Domini 400 Social Index and Calvert Social Index, which screen stocks ba ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, India, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Blood Is Thicker Than Water It was a family affair, but the significance was national: President Bush and his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee that water captured by a $7.8 billion Florida Everglades restoration effort ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, green living, national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Wood Picker		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Wood Picker Eric Gellerman is making furniture out of old-growth Douglas fir, 150-year-old white oak, and Indonesian teak -- and getting kudos from environmentalists for doing so. Gellerman is cofounder of The Wooden Duck, a furniture store in Berkeley, Calif., that salvages wood to craft its wares. The environmental benefits range from the obvious -- the company does ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, logging, South Africa (all these topics)

Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides Starbucks announced this week that it will pay an extra 10 cents per pound for coffee beans that are grown on environmentally and socially responsible farms. The announcement, which was made at a growers conference in Costa Rica, comes at a time when a world coffee surplus has depressed wholesale ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Conservation International, Costa Rica, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Fuel's Progress	Donella H. Meadows	03 Apr 2000	Global Citizen
What an upset! Oil-burning New Englanders watch their heating bills double. Truck drivers protest higher diesel costs by jamming Washington, D.C., streets with their rigs. Congress, in its wisdom, offers to combat a 60-cent jump in gasoline prices with a four-cent tax cut. Our energy secretary runs around the Middle East begging for just a measly couple of million more barrels a day of oil, none of which can arrive in time to ease heating costs, ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living (all these topics)

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