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Sure it's 100 in the shade, but man, nice plane! While planet burns, Boeing scores a PR victory	JMG	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
At the gym, in between hearing an EMT talk about the heat stroke issues he expects tomorrow, I marveled at how awful news programs were today, devoting huge chunks of time to talking up Boeing's new 'Dreamliner' jet, which the blow-drieds say will consume 20 percent less fuel per mile. I even heard one blow say 'eventually reducing the cost of air travel.' Man, talk about delusional. (Oh, and I know I'm not supposed to connect things like our craze for jet travel and high ...
Topics: air travel, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Heads You Lose On replacing toilets	Umbra Fisk	09 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm selling my house in Los Angeles and my toilet is not low-flow. One of the inspectors is trying to tell me I need to replace my toilet with a new low-flow. Well, I know the old ziplock baggie filled with water trick. But I saw that you made mention of some kits to reduce the flow from 3.5 gallons per flush to 1.6 gallons a flush. I believe in recycling. I don't feel that I have to replace my working toilet. Can I modify ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, green building, green living (all these topics)

Bonnaroo: Attention vegan girls! Comedian Dave Attell wants your number	Sarah van Schagen	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Comedian Dave Attell wants your number. No, really! The star of Comedy Central's Insomniac was at Bonnaroo this year working the air-conditioned comic tent. At a press conference Sunday afternoon, Attell said he's really here for the hippie girls, and that he likes a vegan girl who can keep him up all night talking about recycling. I laughed as he said it, but doubted whether it were true -- so I decided to chat with him afterward and find out for sure.I liked y ...
Topics: Bonnaroo, ecological footprint, green living, music, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

A drumbeat worth paying attention to Eyes wide shut toward global collapse?	JMG	16 May 2007	Gristmill
Ecological Footprint, Energy Consumption, and the Looming Collapse: This article explores dynamic relations governing population growth, resource depletion, and world economics by means of a few simple modeling and simulation exercises. To this end, we start out by exploring the concept of an ecological footprint, representing the amount of land that a person needs to produce everything that he or she consumes: food, clothing, energy, shelter, the tools that are needed to make ...
Topics: climate, ecological footprint, energy, population (all these topics)

Flights up, odds of stopping climate disruption falling The roar of jets drowns out the warnings about jet emissions	JMG	10 May 2007	Gristmill
'New Plane Trips Outstripping Any Ecological Improvements in Flying': Aviation growth is soaring to an all-time high, raising the prospect of a huge increase in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. For the first time, more than 2.5 million commercial flights will be made around the world in a single month, with 2.51 million scheduled for May, says the flight information company OAG. This beats the previous record of 2.49 million flights last August. The fig ...
Topics: ecological footprint, energy, green living, travel (all these topics)

It does to this one Is the starfish story really just bunk?	JMG	01 May 2007	Gristmill
The estimable biodiversivist wrote, in another thread, that 'What we do as individuals is insignificant compared to changes in carbon neutral energy generation and transportation infrastructure.' Which is both true and not true, I think. It reminds me of the story about the little tyke throwing starfish stranded on the beach back into the water, and being told by the parent that it didn't matter, leading the child to say, 'It does to this one.' Cute story, all chicken-soup ...
Topics: ecological footprint, environmental movement, green living, messaging (all these topics)

My little world (and yours, too) Your share of the world	Michael Tobis	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Imagine, as a thought experiment, that everyone on the planet had the same share of the world's resources. It turns out your share is about six acres (2.5 hectares) of dry land. Now imagine if that were your whole world. How would you treat it? Thinking in small numbers It's difficult to think in extremely large numbers. Suppose, for instance, the U.S. government spends around $100 million on climate models per year. (I believe this is about right.) That sounds l ...
Topics: climate, ecological footprint, energy (all these topics)

Ecological Footprint receives Skoll Foundation support What gets measured gets fixed, as they say	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Deborah Shimberg. Deborah lives in northern Vermont, where she started and continues to run Verve, Inc., which makes all-natural Glee chewing gum. ----- We denizens of the earth know we are living beyond our means. But it's hard to know by how much, and when we may reach the tipping point. That's where the numbers come in. This week, the Skoll Foundation awarded a 3-year grant of $1,015,000 to the Global Footprint Network, ...
Topics: business, ecological footprint (all these topics)

Al Gore's environmental footprint is irrelevant The system changes or we're all screwed	David Roberts	21 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Having finally gotten the memo that the debate on climate change science is over, conservatives now need a new attack on green advocates. It appears they're reverting to an old standby: hypocrisy. Watch (via Hugg) as FOX News' Sean Hannity lays out the charge against Al Gore:The hypocrisy attack on environmentalists is extremely common, so it's worth discussing why it's almost entirely bogus. I've inveighed against it numerous times (see here, here, here, here, and h ...
Topics: Al Gore, ecological footprint (all these topics)

On the Ball: Rugby! It's bad for the planet, we're afraid	Sarah K. Burkhalter	12 Feb 2007	Gristmill
I wish that I had something nice to report on rugby, because the one game I've watched was fascinating. But alas, Brits with too much time on their hands have crunched numbers for the 2006 Six Nations match between Wales and Scotland, and found it alarmingly eco-unfriendly. And they didn't even account for the face paint. The disheartening news, straight from the mouth of researcher Andrea Collins of Cardiff University's Center for Sustainability: The energ ...
Topics: ecological footprint, sports, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Green Manhattan redux Is it greener after all?	David Roberts	08 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Tyler Cowen disputes the frequent assertion that Manhattanites have the smallest environmental footprints around. He says: Praising Manhattan is a bit like looking only at the roof of a car and concluding it doesn't burn much gas. Manhattan supports its density only by being surrounded by a broader load of crud. ... If you think the big problem is humans grabbing more and more space, you might prefer to tax suburbs and subsidize cities. If you think the ...
Topics: ecological footprint, green living, New York City, placemaking, population (all these topics)

BNL on the road again And aiming to be green	Sarah van Schagen	06 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Pop-rock quintet Barenaked Ladies is back on the road, touring through Canada after returning from their Ships and Dip cruise last month, and getting a bit of press about their efforts to be green(ish). Grist, of course, was all over that story last year. A few stats from the fall B.L.A.M. tour: Fans neutralized almost 1 million miles of driving by participating in the band's offset program. The band itself neutralized 300 tons of CO2 by offsetting all of the po ...
Topics: cars, celebrity, ecological footprint, energy efficiency, music, Prius (all these topics)

Prints Charming On ecological footprints, again	Umbra Fisk	14 Dec 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a couple of questions that relate to how I live and ask others to live. First, my guess is that many of your readers are above average in terms of income and education; who is the average American that we need ultimately to create a sustainable life for? Second, as we try to make our personal lives more sustainable, what is the ecological footprint we need to seek (i.e., square acres or miles or whatever ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, green living (all these topics)

MyGreenie Could there be an environmental version of the new food pyramid?	Chip Giller	19 Apr 2005	Gristmill
The new USDA food pyramid has arrived. In a very ownership-society type of way, the pyramid has been transformed into ... MyPyramid. The website is super-slow thus far -- I haven't been able to really dig around yet -- but the arrival of this new-fangled pyramid has made me wonder if some genius, marketing-savvy environmentalist might be able to fashion a clear graphical illustration of environmental do's and don'ts for individuals. Relatively insignificant no-nos (say, ...
Topics: ecological footprint, food, websites (all these topics)

My Left Footprint On ecological footprints	Umbra Fisk	09 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I just took the Ecological Footprint Quiz, feeling rather confident that I've been doing my part to minimize my personal impact on environmental despoliation. But my results weren't reassuring. My ecological footprint is nine acres, which is much better than the U.S. national average of 24 acres per person, but still twice what the planet could sustain. In short, the quiz tells me, if everyone lived like me, we woul ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, green living (all these topics)

The Pill of Chill On environmental stress	Umbra Fisk	27 Apr 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm the poster child for a late-twentysomething environmentally responsible adult. I use less than 100 gallons of gas a year, less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month, less than 20 gallons of water per day, less than 100 therms of natural gas during the winter in Minnesota. I take my garbage out once every two months because nearly everything is recycled, composted, or bought in reusable containers. My ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, green living (all these topics)

Short People -- They Might Be Green Giants One man's quest to prove that bigger isn't better for the planet	Erik Ness	04 May 2000	Main Dish
Long before the special-effects wizards made Stuart Little into a silver-screen sensation, E.B. White's diminutive hero held a hallowed spot in a storytelling tradition that ranges from Gulliver's Travels and "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The basic idea: Make the workaday world utterly fantastic by changing the scale. Or, most ever ...
Topics: books, ecological footprint (all these topics)

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