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Beyond Kyoto A dispatch from a forward-looking climate conference in Germany		02 Oct 2006	Dispatches
Michael Levitin is a freelance writer based in Germany. Last week, he attended KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap, an international conference held in Berlin. Monday, 02 Oct 2006 Berlin, Germany Imagine a trans-European "super grid" of renewable energy connecting solar parks in northern Africa to wind farms in Scandinavia. Consider the millions in savings -- in miles, in dollars, in tons of CO2 injected in ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, Dispatches, environmental planning, Germany (all these topics)

Citizen Hope Sustainability visionaries see room for hope in our worry-filled world	John Elkington, Mark Lee	27 Sep 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 27 Sep 2006
Topics: environmental planning, Full Disclosure (all these topics)

Gotta Wear Shades Drop that apocalyptic vision and start imagining a positive future	Karen Hurley	11 Jul 2006	Soapbox
Back at the turn of the millennium, the local government I was working for asked community members to contribute their vision of the municipality in the year 2025. As an environmental planner, I attended the community's presentations with some interest. It doesn't have to be like this. Photo: iStockphoto. One group that responded was a gifted-students' club from an elementary school. ...
Topics: environmental planning (all these topics)

The Freak-Out Before the Storm Officials try to scare Americans into preparing for hurricane season		31 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Freak-Out Before the Storm Officials try to scare Americans into preparing for hurricane season As hurricane season approaches, officials in storm-prone states are determined to scare residents into being ready to take care of themselves -- because as we all saw last year, government sure ain't up to the job. Florida officials are broadcasting public service announcements with recordings of terrified ...
Topics: environmental planning, Florida, Mississippi, news (all these topics)

Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon		23 May 2006	Daily Grist
Yukon Count on Me Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon Recognizing that halting development is just not feasible (these are humans we're talking about), a group called Y2Y wants to create a wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon in northwest Canada that would allow animals and people to coexist peaceably. A collaboration of conser ...
Topics: Canada, environmental planning, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The Aye Yi Yi of the Storm NOAA predicts active hurricane season this year		23 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Aye Yi Yi of the Storm NOAA predicts active hurricane season this year This year's hurricane season, which starts June 1, will produce up to 10 hurricanes in the North Atlantic, up to six of which will be Category 3 (winds over 111 miles per hour) or above, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted yesterday. NOAA thinks it will be an above-average season ...
Topics: environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics)

Nice Work A look at green job prospects for 2006		24 Jan 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: business, environmental planning (all these topics)

Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green School officials in Oregon are learning a thing or two from a prototype uber-green classroom near Salem, which uses a large skylight and other technologies to enhance and regulate the natural light coming into the space. With energy bills eating up millions of dollars from school budgets, the project demonstrates that clas ...
Topics: education, environmental planning, news, water pollution (all these topics)

DEP Thoughts An interview with Kathleen McGinty, Pennsylvania's green go-getter	Sarah van Schagen	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
Kathleen McGinty, head of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, approaches the state's environmental challenges with an optimistic "let's-get-it-done" attitude. Early in her career, she made waves as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and deputy assistant to then-President Bill Clinton. After creating and heading up the first-ever W ...
Topics: environmental planning, interview, Pennsylvania, politics (all these topics)

Storm Riders A roundup of green plans and brown bills proposed post-Katrina	Sarah van Schagen	11 Nov 2005	Main Dish
Resourceful environmental leaders have unearthed opportunity amidst the wreckage left behind by this year's record hurricane season and the battering of the Gulf Coast. They've crafted plans for everything from the building of new, green, affordable housing to the tightening of auto fuel-economy standards. Of course, powerful people with less eco-friendly agendas have seen opportunity too ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, environmental planning, politics (all these topics)

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na -- Batwing! Radical design might help curb greenhouse-gas emissions from aircraft		02 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na -- Batwing! Radical design might help curb greenhouse-gas emissions from aircraft Under pressure to reduce fuel use and greenhouse-gas emissions, the airline industry may turn to a futuristic airplane design sketched by Sir Frederick Handley Page in the 1960s. The delightfully dubbed "batwing" would be built of plastic rather than today's heavy aluminum, and would be covered in ti ...
Topics: environmental planning, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Cleanup on Aisle Six Wal-Mart unveils specific, ambitious environmental goals		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Cleanup on Aisle Six Wal-Mart unveils specific, ambitious environmental goals After weeks of scattered signs and announcements, today Wal-Mart issued a far-reaching set of concrete environmental goals. CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. announced that the company would invest $500 million in technologies to reduce its stores' greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent in seven yea ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, commercial and industry organizations, environmental planning, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Who Needs Solar Roofs? Schwarzenegger signs many green bills into law, vetoes a few		10 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Who Needs Solar Roofs? Schwarzenegger signs many green bills into law, vetoes a few California reaped a green bonanza last week, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed more than 30 wide-ranging environmental bills into law. One with potential for nationwide impact will mandate that all new cars for sale in California be stickered with information on how many tons of greenhouse g ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, environmental planning, news, politics (all these topics)

You've Got Nail On rebuilding the Gulf Coast	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, There seem to be plenty of good organizations accepting dollars to help the people of the Gulf Coast. But as The Nature Conservancy has said, "While current attention is rightfully focused on the immediate human toll and suffering of this tragedy, the ecological damage has yet to be assessed." The rebuilding effort, it seems, ought to occur in an environmentally sustainable way. Where can we direct our d ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, environmental non-government organizations, environmental planning, Louisiana (all these topics)

The Weak in Review New Orleans floodwalls should have stood up to Katrina's storm surge		22 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Weak in Review New Orleans floodwalls should have stood up to Katrina's storm surge Why did the floodwalls on Lake Pontchartrain fail to protect New Orleans? The official explanation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been that the key 17th Street and London Avenue floodwalls were built to protect against a Category 3 hurricane -- a Category 4 like Katrina wasn't in the plan. But some Louisiana hurricane ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, news (all these topics)

WEEE Are the World New environmental laws hitting E.U., causing furrow of global brow		20 Sep 2005	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental planning, European Union, green living, politics (all these topics)

A Flood of Accusations Justice Dept. looking for ways to blame New Orleans flood on enviros		19 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
A Flood of Accusations Justice Dept. looking for ways to blame New Orleans flood on enviros The feds are digging around for info they could use to blame the flooding of New Orleans on environmentalists. At the request of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Justice Department last week emailed U.S. attorneys' offices in the Gulf Coast region with this question: "Has your district defended any ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, news (all these topics)

Big Dreams for the Big Easy What New Orleans could look like the second time around	Timothy Lange	15 Sep 2005	Soapbox
I heard that George Bush told New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin the city could be remade into "a shining example for the whole world." If Bush did say that, it surely wasn't an environmentally sound renaissance he had in mind. But that is precisely what is needed. Call it Eco New Orleans. It should encompass not just the city, but the other places blasted by Katrina and by FEMA ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Continental Wreck-Fest Europeans adapting to the realities of a disrupted climate		13 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Continental Wreck-Fest Europeans adapting to the realities of a disrupted climate While Americans quibble ignorantly over whether climate change is really happening, Europeans are already adapting to it. Swedish foresters are being told to plant trees that will thrive in warmer temperatures. Planners of a new subway system in Copenhagen, Denmark, raised all structures to accommodate an anticipated 1.5 ...
Topics: climate, environmental planning, European Union, news (all these topics)

A Friendly Conservation White House to greens: We should totally do this again some time	Jon Christensen	02 Sep 2005	Soapbox
Say anything. Uncle Sam wants you ... to cooperate on conservation. Not only that, he's willing to listen. At least that's what he says. Earlier this week, St. Louis hosted the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation. The invitation-only event was modeled after Teddy Roosevelt's 1908 Governors' Conference, which brought all the country's governors, Supreme Court j ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Interior, environmental planning, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Athens Never Looked So Good Beijing struggles with pollution, gridlock as 2008 Olympics approach		29 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Athens Never Looked So Good Beijing struggles with pollution, gridlock as 2008 Olympics approach China has promised to throw a "green" Olympics in Beijing in 2008 -- but simple livability may be the megacity's bigger challenge. Beijing has 15.2 million inhabitants; if current trends hold, that number could grow to 21 million by 2020. Gridlock is endemic, as the number of cars more than doubled in the past six ...
Topics: China, environmental planning, news (all these topics)

Hello Cleveland! Ohio city is latest to hire sustainability manager		11 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hello Cleveland! Ohio city is latest to hire sustainability manager Cleveland, Ohio, has joined Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Ore., and other American metropolises (metropoli?) in creating a city-government position focused on going green and saving energy -- ideally stimulating job growth in the process. Cleveland's new "sustainability programs manager," Andrew Watterson, is getting started with relatively simpl ...
Topics: environmental planning, news, Ohio (all these topics)

One Meeellion Years Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump		10 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Years Feds create million-year health standard for Yucca Mountain dump The U.S. government has no plan for getting out of Iraq, balancing the budget, or repairing a hemorrhaging health-care system, but nuclear waste? It's got that covered for the next million years. Yes, responding to a 2004 federal court ruling that the previous standard of 10 millennia was insufficient, the U.S. EP ...
Topics: environmental planning, Nevada, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place Seattle is pioneering programs to cut landfill costs by stopping trash before it starts, pursuing an ambitious long-term goal of becoming a "zero-waste" city. Seattle Public Utilities is using more electronic documents, radically reducing its use of paper, and instit ...
Topics: environmental planning, green living, health, news, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

The Rapture of Capture Brits want to store carbon dioxide under North Sea		14 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Rapture of Capture Brits want to store carbon dioxide under North Sea The British government announced today that it will invest about $45 million in technology to capture carbon dioxide and store it under the North Sea -- part of a $72 million commitment to combat global warming via energy efficiency, renewables, and new technologies. Keeping CO2 out of the atmosphere -- known as carbon sequestra ...
Topics: climate, environmental planning, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

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