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Go, West, Young Man		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Go, West, Young Man Jason West, a 26-year-old member of the Green Party, is shaking things up in New Paltz, N.Y., where he was elected mayor earlier this month -- an outcome that has the local political establishment in a tizzy. West ran on an ambitious environmental platform that rallied support from many students at the State University of New York at New ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, local politics, New York, news, politics (all these topics)

Rebel With a Cause?		21 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Rebel with a Cause? A Grist interview with Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean	Amanda Griscom	21 May 2003	Main Dish
With George W. Bush boasting perhaps the worst environmental record of any president in U.S. history, it almost goes without saying that any contender in the 2004 election will appear to be an environmentalist nonpareil by comparison. Indeed, nearly every Democrat running for president is advertising himself as just that, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is no exception. On A ...
Topics: elections, interview, politics (all these topics)

Fuel Independent Candidate		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Fuel Independent Candidate Jockeying for name recognition and post position, the candidates for the 2004 Democratic primary are busily trying to stake out the issues that will define them as the election unfolds -- and Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman has settled on energy independence. In his first major policy speech, given yesterday to environmentalists, Lieberman declared a goal of reducing U.S. depen ...
Topics: elections, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Administrophic On the Bush administration's environmental record	Umbra Fisk	30 Apr 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I hope you can answer this or direct me to someone who can. I am a member of the local Williamson County Democratic Party. I would like to print up a leaflet to distribute to the public at our next gathering on April 26 and 27 that shows just what the present Republican administration has done to our environment. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tracie Rou ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, elections, politics (all these topics)

Kerry on		22 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Kerry on Massachusetts Democratic Senator and 2004 presidential contender John Kerry is honoring Earth Day today by calling on the federal government to protect the human and ecological health of poor and minority communities through strengthening its commitment to environmental justice. In a speech this afternoon, Kerry demanded the creation of a new environmenta ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, health, Massachusetts, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Zealander		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zealander New Zealand is one of the last countries in the world to have a food-production system entirely free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). But that could change when nearly 4 million voters go to the polls this Saturday to decide whether to lift a moratorium on the use of GMOs next year. In fact, the vote will decide more than that; it wil ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, New Zealand, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Al Gore Rhythm		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Al Gore Rhythm Speaking at the Florida Democratic Party Convention -- widely regarded as the first stop on the 2004 campaign trail -- former Vice President Al Gore attacked the Bush administration on Saturday for favoring corporate America and trashing environmental protections. In his most outspoken speech since the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore decried the return to "the days of deficits ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, Florida, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Joltin' Joe		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Coal-burning Bush		23 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coal-burning Bush In other mining news, President Bush did not mince words about his energy plan during an address in the town of Belle, W.Va., yesterday: "We need to use coal. We got a lot of it," he said. The president touted exploitation of domestic coal and other traditional energy resources as a way to avoid dependence on foreign oil and jumpstart a flagging ec ...
Topics: elections, energy, green living, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Rocky Mountain Low		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Rocky Mountain Low Hoping to give himself a green sheen, President Bush traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday to engage in trail work for a few minutes and talk about character. "There's a grand vision embodied in these mountains," he said. "And the vision is that we can teach our children right from wrong." He also criticized environmentalists who ...
Topics: elections, energy, logging, mining and drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Feeling Bushed Let's hope campaign finance reform saves the day	Donella H. Meadows	16 Jan 2001	Global Citizen
I will never believe he won. I'll always think he got a minority of both the popular and the electoral vote. To me he'll always be President-Under-False-Pretense. The president-elect prepares to step up to the plate. Well, but you know, the Rs would feel the same way if a few hundred Florida votes had tipped the other way. Only worse. If the tables were turned, the Rs would be whipping up their talk ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Loy vey! Did the top U.S. negotiator at The Hague climate talks drop the ball?	Ben White	04 Dec 2000	Muckraker
Lots of grumbling lately from environmental insiders displeased with the way Frank Loy handled negotiating duties for the U.S. during the fruitless climate change talks at The Hague, Netherlands. The main complaint: Bad clock management. Pretty boy Loy. Photo: Courtesy of IISD. Without getting too mired in bad sports metaphors, the knock on Loy, the undersecretary of state for global affair ...
Topics: climate, elections, international politics, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics)

What a Drag The endless campaign shows it's time to change the electoral system	Donella H. Meadows	20 Nov 2000	Global Citizen
What is it we are learning in the aftermath of this crazy election? How powerful a single vote can be? Or how worthless a single vote can be, when 19,000 of them can be tossed out in one county? When boxes of ballots get lost? When recounts are demanded or stopped depending on their expected outcome? Such a plunge, from the sublimity of voting day to the ridiculousness that fol ...
Topics: elections, politics (all these topics)

Forget Ralph, George, and Al -- Vote for Skink Has Carl Hiaasen created the new Hayduke?	Erik Ness	03 Nov 2000	Arts and Minds
Lost in the spinning swells of debate coverage was the news that, while in Florida preparing for the second debate, Vice President Al Gore purchased a copy of Sick Puppy, the most recent offering from the best-selling author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen. Palm trees swaying, just like Florida voters. We've heard an awful lot about Florida the swing state, where the good bro ...
Topics: elections, green living, politics (all these topics)

The Campaign Glass is 95 Percent Empty The dumbing and demeaning of politics is not a minor matter	Donella H. Meadows	30 Oct 2000	Global Citizen
In the spirit of celebrating good news wherever it appears, I would like to point out one excellent development in the presidential campaign. The candidates have flailed at each other so much about numbers -- how much of that tax cut really goes to the top 1 percent? how much surplus is there really? -- that the press has wakened to its proper role. Even the TV net ...
Topics: elections, politics (all these topics)

Al together now	Chip Giller	24 Oct 2000	Muckraker
The stomp of enviro feet leaving Al Gore's camp and heading toward consumer advocate Ralph Nader's Green Party tent appears to have put quite a fright into the vice president's operation. The veep is spending valuable time nowadays campaigning in the Pacific Northwest and states like Wisconsin, places he should have locked up by now were it not for Nader. This weekend, Gore's lead environmental advisor, Katie McGinty, took aim at two big-time issues ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Is That Your Final Answer? Questions that should have been asked in the presidential debates	Donella H. Meadows	23 Oct 2000	Global Citizen
Well, the "debates," carefully controlled by the major political parties, are over. I guess it was too much to expect that hard or important questions would be asked. But the candidates are still on the road, where they might be queried by an unscripted citizen. Or by a reporter who believes that fitness to lead a nation rests upon criteria more stringent than ...
Topics: elections, politics (all these topics)

A Nader-do-well	Ben White	10 Oct 2000	Muckraker
If the first presidential debate was a contest to see who could memorize more numbers and offer crisper rhetoric replete with well-rounded sentences and flawless syntax, then Al Gore won. If it was an audition for national nice guy, then George W. Bush strutted out of Boston riding high. But the truth is that neither man won. The real winner last week couldn't even get inside the hall, though he had a ticket. We speak, of course, of Green Party nominee ...
Topics: climate, elections, Kyoto Protocol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Fish or Cut Debates This is not what democracy looks like	Donella H. Meadows	09 Oct 2000	Global Citizen
I wish everyone would stop calling them "debates." Even back when the League of Women Voters first televised confrontations between presidential candidates, they weren't debates. At best they were stiff, unnatural political discussions. Now that the two major political parties run them, they are carefully controlled soundbite gotcha matches. Like most everything about our campaign process, th ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics (all these topics)

Honorable Mention	Ben White	18 Aug 2000	Muckraker
LOS ANGELES, Calif.�� With much fanfare and an excess of recyclable confetti, Democrats sent Al Gore forth last night into what will be a grueling three-month campaign stretch. The vice president must convince skeptical voters that he has what it takes to lead and that electing him over Texas Gov. George W. Bush will make a real difference. Those towering challenges were plainly evident in Gore's acceptance speech before a boisterous crowd inside the S ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Party Animal'		15 Aug 2000	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Party Animal" 15 Aug 2000
Topics: elections, politics (all these topics)

Monumental Momentum	Ben White	30 Jun 2000	Muckraker
The Grand Canyon just got grander. Photo: Council on Environmental Quality. President Clinton has been on a national monument tear of late, setting aside eight areas encompassing more than 1 million acres since January. National monument status gives the federal government increased authority to prevent development and limit logging and other commercial and recreational activity on lands considered particularly sensitive or of great historic value. ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Wait a Minute There, Buster	Ben White	15 Jun 2000	Muckraker
Aides to Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) got a bit of a shock last Saturday when they logged onto the website of Maria Cantwell, one of Gorton's Democratic challengers, and saw a goofy photo of their boss posing with "Buster the Salmon," a costumed protestor who dogs Gorton at campaign events over his refusal to support dam breaching on the lower Snake River. Buster and Slade. (Yes, we too stole this photo!) Turns out that Cantwell's cam ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Dough -- Oh Dear! Should campaign finance reform become the next big green issue?	Phillip Shabecoff	19 Apr 2000	Arts and Minds
Portions of the following essay were adapted from the new book Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century. "Politics," said Will Rogers, "has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with." And that was in the 1930s. The green stuff. Politics today is a lot more expensive. In the 1997-1998 fiscal year, which included an o ...
Topics: business, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

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