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Methinks They Doth Not Protest at All Mainstream green groups opt out of GOP convention protests	Amanda Griscom	26 Aug 2004	Muckraker
Image: Indymedia.org. New York City expects protests at next week's Republican National Convention to be the most widespread and strident to hit any political convention since Chicago in 1968, when the Democrats nominated Hubert H. Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy at the height of Vietnam furor, and chaos stole the political spotlight. Already GOP spinners have begun fra ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, grassroots activism, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Shell Game Margie Eugene-Richard of Louisiana battled Shell on behalf of her neighborhood	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Eugene-Richard. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, in far southern Louisiana, sits between a Shell Chemicals plant and an oil refinery owned by a Shell joint venture. "We're like the meat in the sandwich," says Margie Eugene-Richard, 62, who grew up just 25 feet from the fenceline of the chemical plant. For decades, the 1,500 ...
Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, interview, Louisiana, oil, toxics (all these topics)

She's the Bee's Knees Rashida Bee of Bhopal, India, fights against the company that devastated her community	Michelle Nijhuis	19 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Shukla (left) and Bee. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize On the night of December 2, 1984, in the central Indian city of Bhopal, a massive poisonous gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide factory killed 8,000 people. Over the course of 20 years, the infamous disaster has caused an estimated 20,000 deaths, countless birth defects, and a litany of other ser ...
Topics: grassroots activism, health, India, interview, toxics (all these topics)

Action Star On reversing the tide	Umbra Fisk	15 Oct 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I can't take it! A body-building actor was just elected governor of my state! I'm going to go mad! Then my friend said, "Don't get mad, get even." You've got to help me -- California is crazy, but at least we've been setting the standard on some environmental issues. (Not all of them, I know, but quite a few.) I've never believed that letters or marching or such things help, but now I'll do anything. Anything! If n ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, elections, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Can You Odigha It? Nigerian activist Odigha Odigha fights to halt illegal logging	Michelle Nijhuis	14 Apr 2003	Main Dish
In southeastern Nigeria, private logging companies are felling the country's last remaining rainforests. These hardwood forests shelter the highest diversity of primates in the world and some 20 percent of the planet's butterfly species. Odigha Odigha. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Odigha Odigha grew up in and around these forests, in the Ijagham community of Cross River State. ...
Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, interview, logging, Nigeria, rainforests (all these topics)

Prize Fighters Interviews with the 2003 winners of environmentalism's greatest honor	Michelle Nijhuis	14 Apr 2003	Main Dish
These are dark times for grassroots activists. Just weeks ago, President Bush dismissed millions of anti-war protesters as little more than a "focus group" -- a group whose opinions he was determined to ignore, and did. But the indifference of the world's sole superpower is only one of the obstacles facing activists. Today's problems are often international in scale and ...
Topics: grassroots activism, heroes, interview (all these topics)

Housecapades On homegrown activism	Umbra Fisk	12 Feb 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have been changing my way of living in the past year or so to become more environmentally friendly. I have been recycling (my city recycles almost everything) and I started composting. I have been cutting meat out of my life, and I have been surrounding my home with plants and herbs. I buy biodegradable, organic products that haven't been tested on animals. I've also signed online petitions and became a member of Greenpea ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, grassroots activism, green building, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Tilting at Windmills Activists are split on a proposed wind project off Cape Cod	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2002	Powers That Be
Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where 30 or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth." "Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Got Sun? Marketing the revolution in clean energy	Amanda Griscom	29 Aug 2002	Powers That Be
Last month, 10 solar-powered race cars zipped around a 1.5-mile NASCAR track at the legendary Texas Motor Speedway, some of them reaching the dizzying speed of 35 miles per hour. With all its technological novelty and timely political implications, the Dell and Winston Solar Challenge (named for the computer and cigarette companies that sponsored it) might have been a grand public spectacle. But the entire 155,000-se ...
Topics: advertising, Bill McKibben, cars, grassroots activism, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		03 May 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 03 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. I'm about to get on a plane to head to Boston, where I'll attend a meeting at the University of Massachusetts on global climate change and biodiversity. I've been invited to give a talk on research, recently published in the journal Oecologia, concerning experimental work we've done in Costa Rica on the effects of climate ch ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		02 May 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 02 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My Standard Breakfast Boiled Egg was pretty near perfect this morning. Unfortunately, I burned the toast. You win some, you lose some. Happily, the morning was bright and clear with a kiss of warmth in the air, which bodes well for the peas and beans and strawberry plants sprouting in my garden. I'm afraid I've lost th ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		01 May 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 01 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. Today is Canopy Lab Lunch. Every Wednesday at noon, I meet with the small cadre of students who are working or volunteering in my lab on projects related to forest canopy work. Because the Evergreen State College is a small, undergraduate-centered institution, I don't have many graduate students. So I try to cultivate the ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		30 Apr 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 30 Apr 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My boiled egg this morning was a bit on the soft side. I caught a look of concern from my nine-year old daughter, Erika, but I reassured her that it was okay. After breakfast, I spent much of the morning plugging away on a quest for funding for a project that started five years ago, to build a forest canopy walkway on o ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		29 Apr 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 29 Apr 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My day starts as most do: calling upstairs for my two children to rouse themselves for the beginning of the day. I then put on an egg to boil, a slice of toast to brown. I've been eating the same breakfast for the last three years, and even though the items of food are the same, I have come to learn that each day's breakfast ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Some Assembly Required		31 Jan 2001	Daily Grist
Some Assembly Required Causing anti-globalization activists to cry foul, the World Trade Organization decided yesterday that it will hold its first top-level meetings since the infamous 1999 Battle in Seattle in Qatar, a Persian Gulf nation with a questionable human rights record and little history of public protest. In the past, the U.S. State Department has said that the Qatar government as a matter of practice "severe ...
Topics: grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Hostel Takeover Greenpeace student activists stir things up at The Hague	Bill McKibben	21 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Hague, with its constant drizzle, qualifies as one of the gloomiest cities I've ever visited, and the tense, uncertain busyness of the convention center doesn't add much to the atmosphere. But a 20-minute train ride from the hall brings you to the one truly hopping spot in town, a youth hostel that has been taken over by Greenpeace for the duration of the conference. S ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, grassroots activism, Netherlands, politics (all these topics)

Melbourne Place		12 Sep 2000	Daily Grist
Melbourne Place Thousands of enviros and other anti-globalization activists took to the streets of Melbourne, Australia, yesterday, with the aim of shutting down, Seattle-style, a three-day World Economic Forum meeting of high-powered corporate leaders and policymakers, primarily from the Asia-Pacific region. "We have no vote on who these major world leaders are," said Michael Gann, a protestor from New S ...
Topics: Australia, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

The Dream of the Black-and-Blue Turtles Sea turtle activists are pushing for protections in Texas	Dan Oko	25 Aug 2000	Main Dish
They may be swimming against the current, but sea turtle advocates say they want Gov. George W. Bush (R) to show a little of his fabled compassion for the endangered reptiles that frequent the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast. The New York Times ad. Image: STRP. As the GOP presidential hopeful prepared to accept his party's nomination earlier this month, the San Francisco- ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, grassroots activism, oceans, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Prize Fighters Enviros worldwide call for release of two Mexican activists	Mark Hertsgaard	21 Jul 2000	Main Dish
Forty-five of the world's most prominent environmentalists have called for the immediate release of Mexican colleagues Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, who have been jailed and tortured after blocking logging operations by the multinational Boise Cascade in the southern state of Guerrero. Rodolfo Montiel Flores. Urging that the "tragic stories" of murdered environ ...
Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Mexico (all these topics)

Dino Might!		12 Jun 2000	Daily Grist
Dino Might! Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. The congress, which includes more than 2,500 delegates from 87 countries, is the latest target of anti-globalization groups that have protested against the World Trade Organization and ...
Topics: Canada, grassroots activism, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

I-M-Furious		17 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
I-M-Furious Thousands of enviros and other demonstrators hit the streets of Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest corporate globalization, hoping to build on the momentum of last year's demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. They have been thwarted in their efforts to shut down meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by police in full r ...
Topics: fossil fuels, grassroots activism, politics, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Magnificent, Seven!		11 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
Magnificent, Seven! Enviros and other activists yesterday kicked off more than a week of protests against corporate globalization in Washington, D.C., with the goal of disrupting meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this Sunday and Monday. Seven protestors were arrested yesterday, including Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, and John Pass ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Action Figures		06 Mar 2000	Daily Grist
Action Figures In the wake of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle last year, environmentalists are strengthening alliances with other progressive movements and helping to plan a series of demonstrations to keep the momentum going. Big protests are planned for April 16 in Washington, D.C., where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will be holding annual meetings, and for the Democratic N ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		20 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 20 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. Perhaps God made snow to force us to slow down. I was scheduled to fly to Michigan this morning for a four-day strategic retreat that the Center was sponsoring with support from the Fetzer Institute near Kalamazoo. I awoke to the first serious snow storm of the year -- and to cancelled flight ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream		19 Jan 2000	Dispatches
Betsy Taylor is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream in Takoma Park, Md. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 19 Jan 2000 TAKOMA PARK, Md. Up at 6 a.m. after my late return from New York last night. As usual, the first half hour of the day was for reflection, quiet time, coffee. Once I got my 9- and 11-year-olds off to school, I opted to work from home for the morning -- a rare indulgence in claiming my own space. Sometimes, wh ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, grassroots activism (all these topics)

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