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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Ped Antics Colleges, high schools move to be more bike- and pedestrian-friendly		07 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:06 AM on 07 Aug 2008 High gasoline costs as well as concerns about the environment have been prompting schools across the country to make their campuses more bike- and pedestrian-friendly. Pressure from parents and students is one big factor in the shift, but another key seems to be a growing awareness about sustainability. A number of colleges are launching bike-sharing programs, some U.S. high schools ...
Topics: education, gas prices, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

Is Our Children Greening? Students and colleges starting to go green		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Is Our Children Greening? Students and colleges starting to go green It's school time again, and you know what that means: pencils, books, teachers' dirty looks, and ambitious eco-minded students. Thanks to the influence of today's yoots -- a generation accustomed to sorting their trash and hyper-aware of global warming -- schools across the country are greening up education. California's Green Campus Program ...
Topics: education, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge		13 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
How Much CO2 Does a Kegger Emit? College and university presidents sign on to climate pledge Aiming to give greenhouse-gas reduction the old college try, 280 institutions have signed on to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. Modeled after a pact signed by mayors across the country, the agreement commits schools to promoting research on global warming, keeping track of emissions, and aiming ...
Topics: climate, education, United States (all these topics)

The liter of the pack	Clark Williams-Derry	31 Jan 2005	Gristmill
I didn't know this: In Canada, automobile fuel economy is expressed as gallons per mile, not miles per gallon as it is in the U.S. (Well, really, it's liters per hundred kilometers, but if you're south of the 49th parallel and a metric-system-phobe, gallons per mile is essentially the same thing.) Now, I don't mention this just to expose my lack of cultural knowledge of my northern neighbors. I mention it because it seems to me that liters-per-kilometer is a ...
Topics: Canada, cars, education, fossil fuels, United States (all these topics)

Brower Power A spotlight on young enviro activists	Michelle Nijhuis	10 Aug 2004	Main Dish
David Brower, a pioneer of the U.S. environmental movement, once said that his generation depended on young people "to shape us up before it's too late." Though Brower -- former executive director of the Sierra Club, founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute -- passed away in 2000, his legacy lives on: He established the Brower Fund, which cultivates new environmental leaders th ...
Topics: education, United States (all these topics)

American Idle		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

This Solar House Students compete to build the house of the future	Amanda Griscom	30 Oct 2002	Powers That Be
At midnight one late-September evening, a convoy of 18-wheeler flatbed trucks carting 14 houses (some whole, some in parts) and thousands of square feet of solar panels rolled past the Washington Monument, drove along the National Mall, and headed up to the front lawn of the Capitol building. Upon arriving, the first truck in line barreled through a yellow ribbon held by members of a hooting and holl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, education, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Big Plan on Campus Universities combat climate change	Shelley Smithson	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
"Do it in the dark!" That's the rallying cry at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., where an ambitious campaign is under way to cut greenhouse gases. Sure, climate change activism -- conserving energy, using renewable fuels, and constructing eco-friendly buildings -- isn't as sexy as marching against Vietnam or burning bras. But in an increasingly warm world, working to reverse global climate chang ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, United States (all these topics)

Alien Invasion!		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, Hawaii, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

The Noble Citizen A personal appreciation of Grist contributor Donella Meadows	Robert Braille	01 Mar 2001	Soapbox
I was once speaking with Donella Meadows in her Dartmouth College office a few years ago, back when I taught with her in the environmental studies program. She was responsible for my appointment in environmental literature and writing and had become a mentor I could call on for advice at any time, no matter how busy she was. Donella Meadows. Suddenly, the telephone rang. It was a represen ...
Topics: education, green living, population, United States (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		30 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 30 Jun 2000 LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. Today I'm writing from my aunt Beth and uncle Chris's house in Illinois, where they li ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		29 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Two weeks ago today began the craziness on Capitol Hill. Alex, Eric, and I rushed from o ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		28 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 28 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. I've been waiting for this day for nearly five months. This morning I slept until noon. ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		27 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Caribou in the Alaskan wilderness. Coffee, anyone? Photo: Dean Biggens, USFWS. This morni ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		26 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 26 Jun 2000 TURTON, S.D. The rain is falling this morning as I write from my dad's hometown of Turton, S.D. It's a small ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Riders on the Storm	Ben White	12 May 1999	Muckraker
No one in her or his right mind thinks the 106th Congress is going to pass a whole lot of actual free-standing legislation. It will likely take every ounce of strength this feeble Congress can muster to pass the essential spending bills that fund the government. So riders, those pesky little items that hope to escape scrutiny by hitching a ride on big money bills, are the name of the game, as noted in last week's Muckraker. The current vehicle for ...
Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, mining, Muckraker, politics, United States, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

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