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Mind Over Motor
Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign |
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19 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Friday, 19 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. We know you know about fuel-efficient cars. You may even own one. Peak oil, the rising price at the pump, an ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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The Class Menagerie
David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
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11 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 11 Aug 2005 KAKTOVIK, Alaska, and SEATTLE, Wash. "For us, this is a human-rights stand," says Luci Beach, executive d ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics) |
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The Class Menagerie
David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
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10 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 10 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska For the two days following Roger Kaye's talk, we remain in Fairbanks meeting with scientists, ac ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics) |
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The Class Menagerie
David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
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09 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 09 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska We arrive back in Fairbanks early in the evening on Aug. 8. Everyone takes showers and we all eat ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics) |
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The Class Menagerie
David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
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08 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 08 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS and AICHILIK RIVER, Alaska The Alaskan part of the trip begins at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, when we arrive at t ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics) |
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The Class Menagerie
David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
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29 Jul 2005 |
Dispatches |
| David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 29 Jul 2005 SEATTLE, Wash. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of one of the most contentious environmental and ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics) |
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What's your major?
Universities considering adding organic-farming to curriculum. |
Chris Schults |
26 Jul 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: education, food, local food, organic food (all these topics) |
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The Ventilator
Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green |
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12 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Ventilator Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green Washington state will be the first in the nation to require new public buildings to meet green building standards, thanks to a bill signed last week by Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) at Washington Middle School in Olympia. Said school is due for a remodel that will meet the standards, set by the U.S. Green Building Council, by incorporating new fixtures ... |
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| Topics: education, news, Washington (all these topics) |
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As the World Learns
On getting up to speed on enviro issues |
Umbra Fisk |
04 Apr 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am new to the environmental movement, and I was wondering how you keep track of the major issues within it, because there are so many! Also, do you have any books to recommend on the history of the environmental movement? Naomi Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Dearest Naomi, Grist, of course! In addition to the website, you can get smart, pithy, funny summaries of breaking environmental news de ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, environmental movement (all these topics) |
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Don't Think of the Environment
Enviros recruit Lakoff for reframing project, but concerns mount that he might leave them in the lurch |
Amanda Griscom Little |
29 Mar 2005 |
Muckraker |
| George Lakoff may be the new darling of the Democratic Party, but how sweet is he on the environmental movement? George Lakoff. Photo: Bonnie Azab Powell, U.C. Berkeley. A onetime adviser to Howard Dean, who hails him as "one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement," Lakoff is author of ... |
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| Topics: education, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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A Tragedy of Manners
On talking about environmentalism without being preachy |
Umbra Fisk |
24 Mar 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Since you're the closest thing to Miss Manners that the environmental community has, I'd like to ask for your etiquette advice. I was recently on vacation with some friends and friends of friends and was disturbed by the lack of environmental awareness. For example: the 30-mile round-trips to get a takeout latte. Really. We were -- relatively speaking -- in the middle of nowhere, bu ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education (all these topics) |
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I Feel Hot and Cold (Can't Explain)
On how climate change will affect us |
Umbra Fisk |
17 Feb 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, My girlfriend asked me the other day why global warming was going to be so bad for her. I just graduated with a degree in environmental science, and I like to think I learned something in my classes, but I still struggled to give her a concise, straightforward answer. I see new research coming out all the time in Daily Grist and other places on the consequences of global warming and pre ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, education (all these topics) |
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What Is This 'Print' You Speak of?
On environmental print magazines |
Umbra Fisk |
03 Feb 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| What Is This "Print" You Speak of? On environmental print magazines By Umbra Fisk 03 Feb 2005 Dear Umbra, Can you recommend a paper magazine dedicated to environmental/social-justice issues that has the same kind of light touch and zany humor that Grist has? I've found that getting really good reading material into the house and just leaving it around is a sure way to hook my two children, who are both avid readers. They're both computer literate, but won't go to a website I recommend, ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living (all these topics) |
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The liter of the pack
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Clark Williams-Derry |
31 Jan 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Canada, cars, education, fossil fuels, United States (all these topics) |
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Local food
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David Roberts |
27 Jan 2005 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: agriculture, education, food, local food (all these topics) |
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Bag Lady
On reusable recycling bags |
Umbra Fisk |
27 Jan 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am the cofounder and current president of the Recycling Club at R.L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas. We have started collecting cell phones and plan to donate them to Verizon, since they refurbish and recycle or sell them. With the money they make, they buy new ones with airtime for (in our town) ladies at the Women's Haven shelter. We plan to start recycling plastics too. I need a bag for all this paper. Anywa ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Sze Matters
Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers readers' questions |
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19 Nov 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Julie Sze, professor in American Studies at U.C.-Davis Where do you see the environmental-justice movement heading in the future? -- Max Weintraub, Oakland, Calif. Max, Max, Max! Max Weintraub is a friend and colleague of mine, who has founded an excellent organization called Environmental Justice and Health Union. This question is huge, and many actors will be involved in answering it: commun ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics) |
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Oh, Say, Can You Sze?
Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers Grist's questions |
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15 Nov 2004 |
InterActivist |
| What work do you do? I'm an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of California at Davis. How does it relate to the environment? My research and teaching interests are in environmental justice, race and science, the politics of the urban environment, health and risk, social movements, and community activism. What do you really do, on a day-to-day basis? I do a combina ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics) |
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Esprit de Orr
David Orr, environmental educator and writer, answers readers' questions |
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29 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| David Orr, author and Oberlin professor. I work at an ultra-conservative small-town paper, and I have the opportunity to discuss politics with its publisher and editor. Can you give me a few talking points summarizing the absolutely worst things President Bush has done to the environment? -- Julia Smith, Floresville, Texas Read Robert Kennedy's very fine book, Crimes Against Nature, and give a ... |
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| Topics: education, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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Iron Orr
David Orr, environmental educator and writer, answers Grist's questions |
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25 Oct 2004 |
InterActivist |
| David Orr. What work do you do? I am disguised as a professor at Oberlin College, but consider myself an Educator, capital E, not an educational technician or bureaucrat, and certainly not one "in the box" of a single discipline. At its best, education means to "educe," or draw forth, so I consider it essential not just to inform (a mechanical task) but to hone the capacity to discern ... |
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| Topics: education, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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A Bit of the Old Ultraviolet
On UV ratings |
Umbra Fisk |
14 Oct 2004 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Our radio station provides daily information regarding ultraviolet ratings. I am curious about what these ratings actually represent, and why they change so dramatically. For example, for the past few years, most ratings have been between three and seven. Now we are getting ratings of 10. I doubt the ratings are directly related to Dobson units, which measure the amount of atmospheric ozone present, because they ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, climate science, education, ozone (all these topics) |
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Assault and Pepper
Trial of 'Pepper Spray 8' may deadlock again |
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22 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Assault and Pepper Trial of "Pepper Spray 8" may deadlock again In 1997, protesters locked themselves together with metal sleeves to protest Pacific Lumber Co.'s plans to log old-growth forests in California's Humboldt County. Although the protests were nonviolent, Humboldt police swabbed pepper spray in the eyes of eight protestors at three separate protests. Footage of the protestors screaming in pain was broadcast, laws ... |
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| Topics: California, education (all these topics) |
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Schoolhouse Rocks
Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches |
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13 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Schoolhouse Rocks Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches Healthy, organic food is increasingly popping up in, of all strange places, school lunches. The Seattle school district recently banned junk food and exclusive soda contracts (despite the big dollars dangled by soda companies) and started urging schools to offer "fresh, local, organic, non-genetically-modified, non-irradiated, unpro ... |
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| Topics: California, education, food, organic food, Seattle (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: education, United States (all these topics) |
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Light One Up, Pass It Around
Andrew Light, an enviro-academic, answers readers' questions |
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30 Jul 2004 |
InterActivist |
| Andrew Light, of New York University What do you recommend I read to get up to date on the subjects of environmental philosophy and ethics? What is the web address of your own work? -- Taro Keefe, Lismore, Australia How nice of you to ask! My website is here. You can find links there for my books and download some of my recent papers and forthcoming work. I co-edited a college textbook on ... |
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| Topics: education, InterActivist, interview (all these topics) |
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