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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Colbert on gas prices and oil profits	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, energy, funnies, green living, messaging, oil, TV (all these topics)

How to get people to pay attention to peak oil	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, fossil fuels, green living, oil (all these topics)

Kunstler meets Colbert	David Roberts	03 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: books, energy, funnies, green living, oil, oil and gas drilling, TV (all these topics)

Worse than coal Industrial agrofuels: enemy of the entire planet	biodiversivist	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

Starting to Tank Americans using less gasoline		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:41 PM on 03 Mar 2008 Well, it's finally happened: Americans are starting to use less gasoline. It took a weakened economy and record oil prices -- crude hit an all-time high of $103.95 a barrel Monday -- but in the past six weeks, U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen by an average 1.1 percent from 2007 levels, the most sustained drop in at least 16 years (excepting the dropoff that followed Hurricane Katrina). As Americans move to mitig ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

BioWillie pens a biodiesel book	Sarah van Schagen	19 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, books, celebrity, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

Engines could easily gulp less gas MIT lab rats cook up a less wasteful gasoline engine	Elsa Mary	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Whence It Came On biodegradable products	Umbra Fisk	11 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, With biodegradable corn-plastic products like clothes hangers, credit cards, and trash bags, we are led to believe there are good alternatives to plastic that can be thrown out guilt-free. But doesn't all trash get put in landfills that are then hermetically sealed to prevent the bad contaminants from leaching out, but hold in the things that would have been composting otherwise? I thought that was the reason to co ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, green living, oil, recycling, shopping (all these topics)

Bummer for Hummer Reps to discuss dropping the tax break on massive SUVs	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, Congress, energy, green living, oil, politics (all these topics)

I'm not sure if a rock concert is the answer ...	David Roberts	20 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, green living, music, oil (all these topics)

Gas price roundup Do gas prices affect behavior or not?	Clark Williams-Derry	18 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking, public transportation, Vancouver (all these topics)

Evil ...	David Roberts	25 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Big Oil, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

One Word On oil and plastic	Umbra Fisk	14 Mar 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, How much oil is used to make a pound (or some other comparable measure) of typical plastics? Melody Evans Paris, Ill. Dearest Melody, Ah, Paris. Is it as lovely in the springtime as they say? Yes, Ben, plastics ... Photo: The Graduate (1967)/MGM Your question is a good and tricky one. Let's start with a look at how plastic is made. Manufacturers take simple hydrocarbons from whatever source material they're using -- commonly crud ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

Can we replace oil and maintain energy supply?	David Roberts	02 Jun 2006	Gristmill

Topics: energy, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

To the Victor Go the Oils Gaghan's Syriana not at all the feel-good film of the year	David Roberts	09 Dec 2005	Arts and Minds
Syriana, written and directed by Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, is a brave and daunting piece of filmmaking. It plunges without apology into hot-button territory few U.S. news outlets, much less Hollywood productions, have dared explore, and does very little to smooth the rough edges for a moviegoing audience accustomed to frictionless entertainment. In a pop-culture landsc ...
Topics: energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

Could Katrina kill the SUV? Despite falling sales figures, it's not bloody likely	Todd Hymas Samkara	13 Sep 2005	Gristmill

Topics: cars, energy, green living, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing? The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck!		21 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Is That a Fat Lady We Hear Singing? The era of cheap oil is coming to an end soon; duck! Cheap oil is running out. A report from the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves puts the problem in stark terms: "The disparity between increasing production and declining discoveries can only have one outcome: a practical supply limit will be reached and future supply to meet conventional oil ...
Topics: energy, green living, news, oil (all these topics)

Naturally: Gas On home heating	Umbra Fisk	18 Dec 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Can you shed some light (or some warmth) on the most environmentally sound ways to heat one's home this winter? Natural gas over coal and oil for its lower carbon (and particulate) content? What about fireplaces: good or bad? Would burning gas logs be a good alternative to burning real wood? Thanks for your help! Janet Washington, D.C. Dearest Janet, What we cold eco-folks are looking for is a heat source that is clean to prod ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, coal, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, natural gas, oil (all these topics)

Sin Diesel On diesel engines	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Longtime reader; first-time writer. Love the column. My partner and I recently bought a small station wagon to replace our 4WD pick-up and '83 sedan. After some debate, we chose a turbo-diesel engine that boasts about 45 miles per gallon instead of a gas engine, which gets about 30 MPG. Our thinking led us to choose the higher fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions of the diesel engine, although the gas engine produces fewer par ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

The Magnificent Seven vs. the Baywatch Babes A new book rounds up everyday sustainable wonders	John C. Ryan	28 Oct 1999	Arts and Minds
When the Dalai Lama of Tibet met with economist John Kenneth Galbraith, he asked the Harvard professor a simple but penetrating question: "What would the world be like if everyone drove a motor car?" The Tibetan leader probably did not intend it, but his question constitutes a koan, a paradoxical riddle of Zen Buddhist tradition. A koan has no logical answer -- &qu ...
Topics: books, cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

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