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Globalization Shmobalization San Francisco Bay Area coalition urges focus on local economy		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Globalization Shmobalization San Francisco Bay Area coalition urges focus on local economy What will those hippies think of next? A coalition of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area is undertaking a push against globalization and the labor and environmental offenses it incurs. The coalition, which just released a 30-page plan, hopes to coordinate with business and government leaders to move the Ba ...
Topics: business, California, globalization, news, San Francisco (all these topics)

The Amazing Technicolor Dream Cote Ivory Coast scandal highlights illegal dumping of toxic waste		28 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Amazing Technicolor Dream Cote Ivory Coast scandal highlights illegal dumping of toxic waste The recent dumping of toxic oil byproducts and subsequent deaths of eight citizens in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, has highlighted the shady world of illegal toxic-waste disposal. The practice of unloading nasties on developing countries was addressed by the U.N.'s Basel Convention in 1989 (you remember that one), ...
Topics: Africa, globalization, news, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Wireless Is More Green communications technology heading to developing countries		31 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Wireless Is More Green communications technology heading to developing countries Solar-powered internet and recycled cell phones are coming to a developing country near you. Internet access is widely heralded as a tool with the potential to transform the lives of low-income people, but construction of a wired network to remote villages is often prohibitively expensive. Enter the Green Wi-Fi p ...
Topics: business, globalization, news, recycling, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Beans for Lima Activists are fighting a new agreement between the U.S. and Peru	Kelly Hearn	11 May 2006	Main Dish
A logger drives his freshly cut mahogany logs upriver toward Ivochote, a scratchy, low-slung jungle town in Peru's eastern Amazon. Hoping to convert his illegal revenues into some weekend lovin', he takes maca, a traditional Peruvian libido enhancer. He heads to a nearby brothel, but its employees are too busy protesting pollution caused by a foreign mining company to entertain him. Frustra ...
Topics: globalization, Peru, United States (all these topics)

Loy to the World Europe should push U.S. to more fully fund the Global Environment Facility	Frank E. Loy	11 Apr 2006	Soapbox
Recently, in Moscow, at the meeting of G8 Finance Ministers, the Europeans gave us a repeat performance of an all-too-familiar pattern: they appeased George Bush at the expense of the global environment. Show us the money. Photo: iStockphoto. At last year's Gleneagles summit of the G8 industrialized nations, the G8 leaders, led by the Europeans, invested considerable political ...
Topics: climate, globalization (all these topics)

Apocalypse How? Don't let catastrophic visions get you down ... well, not all of them	Lou Bendrick	10 Jan 2006	Soapbox
We greens spend a lot of time obsessing about how life as we know it is likely to end: in a slow, painful miasma of greenhouse gases; in the violent cross fire of a nuclear gang war; in mass ignominy, dead and bug-eyed in our folding chairs after endless rounds of fruitless policy discussions. But what the heck do we really know? Before the car was invented, people worried that the w ...
Topics: globalization (all these topics)

Bye, Local Organic farmers in U.S. losing business to foreign growers		11 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Bye, Local Organic farmers in U.S. losing business to foreign growers Organic is seen as a niche that helps smaller American farmers endure, but a sizeable chunk of the organic foods sold in the U.S. are being sourced from overseas suppliers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that as much as $1.5 billion of organic food was imported in 2002, while perhaps $125 million worth was exported. Some food produ ...
Topics: food and agriculture, globalization, news (all these topics)

Burma Save Logging keeps Asian elephants in business ... for now	Jennifer Hile	13 Sep 2005	Main Dish
At a fork in the road, our guide points to the right. "That's the main road there," he says. "We'll go on this smaller road, deep into the jungle." A glance to the left reveals a narrow, unpaved track, which he tells us is used primarily by logging trucks. It's the dry season in Myanmar, and dead leaves hang like bats above us. The truck's idling motor blends with the cacophony of in ...
Topics: Asia, globalization, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

And Miles to Go Before I NEPA U.S. government sued over climate impacts of overseas energy projects		25 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
And Miles to Go Before I NEPA U.S. government sued over climate impacts of overseas energy projects U.S. efforts to find fossil-fuel supplies overseas will create significant climate disruption, harming not only people in those countries but folks at home, according to a lawsuit filed against the federal government by a coalition of green groups and U.S. cities. Ranging from Greenpeace to the city of ...
Topics: energy, globalization, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

China Syndromes Will hard-won environmental and social gains survive China's economic rise?	John Elkington, Mark Lee	23 Aug 2005	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 23 Aug 2005 The way China has catapulted itself onto the Monopoly board of global capitalism has caught most Western leaders on the hop. Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid looking back at their pursuers, top U.S. and European Union businesspeople are wondering, "Who are those guys?" Yuan-a make a deal? After all, how much do we know about the China National Pe ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, business, China, consumerism, Full Disclosure, globalization, politics (all these topics)

Switch Emitters Led by U.S., five nations craft new climate-change pact		27 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Switch Emitters Led by U.S., five nations craft new climate-change pact Australia, China, India, South Korea, and the U.S. have secretly negotiated a global-warming pact that could steal the spotlight from the Kyoto Protocol -- or so the U.S. hopes. According to advance word from a meeting of Asia-Pacific nations in Laos, this fledgling "Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate" emphasizes the devel ...
Topics: climate, globalization, news (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Don't Do as the Romans Do Jared Diamond's Collapse traces the fates of societies to their treatment of the environment	Michael J. Kavanagh	08 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Jared Diamond. I will always think of Jared Diamond as the man who, for the better part of the late 1990s, somehow made the phrase "east-west axis of orientation" the most talked-about kind of orientation there was -- freshman, sexual, or otherwise. His 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Socie ...
Topics: environmental justice, globalization, green living, politics (all these topics)

Another Brick in the Wal-Mart On Wal-Mart	Umbra Fisk	22 Nov 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Why is Wal-Mart evil? This is really a request for more information. I have often heard that the company has a weak environmental track record, treats its employees poorly, and generally is Satan incarnate. However, when challenged on this position, I have no data. My opponents argue that shopping in bulk reduces packaging. I also have to admit that a case of Pellegrino for $10 pulls me closer to the dark side. I am ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, globalization, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Crops, Bad Crops, Whatcha Gonna Do? International Battle Over GM Food Continues In other genetic modification news, skirmishes over the safety and labeling of GM foods are erupting this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as delegates from around the world convene to discuss the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The U.N. accord, wh ...
Topics: China, European Union, globalization, GMOs, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

True North InterActivist Michael North on Solar Community Centers and More		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: business, education, globalization, Hawaii, water pollution (all these topics)

Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Stuck in Trafficking Enviros Accuse Malaysia of Enabling Illegal Timber Smuggling The Environmental Investigation Agency and the Indonesian environmental group Telapak yesterday accused the Malaysian government of turning a blind eye to the widespread trafficking of timber illegally logged from Indonesia. According to an investigative report by the two groups, large quan ...
Topics: business, globalization, Indonesia, logging, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans Ships that carry ballast water -- used to balance and stabilize the vessels -- also carry thousands of aquatic species across the globe to foreign habitats, where they can have environmentally catastrophic effects. Recognizing this as one of the top four environmental problems facing the world's oceans (al ...
Topics: globalization, marine life, oceans, placemaking, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice?		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
I'd Like to Buy the World a ... Juice? Soft drinks made in India by PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. contain levels of toxic pesticides -- including lindane, DDT, malathion, and chlorpyrifos -- high enough to cause cancer or immune-system failure over time. Such was the conclusion of an Indian parliamentary report released yesterday, confirming similar findings by the Delhi-based Center for Science and ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a sta ...
Topics: Africa, Algeria, Asia, China, energy, European Union, Gabon, globalization, green living, Japan, Middle East (all these topics)

The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble A $3 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline -- slated to be pumping oil from the newly opened Caspian oilfields through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to the world market by April 2005 -- has run into a whole mess of trouble. Environmenta ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, energy, food and agriculture, Georgia, globalization, mining and drilling, population, renewable energy, Turkey, wildlife (all these topics)

The Big Disease-y New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Brazil, business, food and agriculture, globalization, health, India, wildlife (all these topics)

Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On Worldwide use of genetically modified crops grew by 15 percent last year, according to a report by the industry-backed International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. In 1996, the year GM crops were made commercially available, 4.3 million acres were used for biotech cultivated crops. By 2003, ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says Hundreds of kids have died and tens of thousands have been hospitalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, because of respiratory illnesses seemingly caused by air pollution, according to a five-year study released yesterday by th ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, globalization, health, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

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