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Say NOAA to bad science Protesters head to court next week	Kate Sheppard	08 Dec 2006	Gristmill

Topics: grassroots activism, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (all these topics)

Celebrate, But Organize What the Democrats' win means for the sustainable-food movement	Tom Philpott	15 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
After being sentenced to death on specious grounds in 1915, the pro-union agitator and singer Joe Hill delivered a bracing message to his supporters: "Don't waste time mourning, organize!" The bums may be gone, but don't get too giddy. Photo: iStockphoto Under more celebratory circumstances, Hill's formulation doesn't seem quite right; after helping purge so many scoundre ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, Big Ag, Congress, grassroots activism, politics, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Go Tell It on the Mountain Allen Johnson rallies Christians to fight against mountaintop-removal mining	David Roberts	07 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Allen Johnson. As its not-at-all euphemistic name would indicate, mountaintop-removal mining makes no effort to disguise its impact. Coal-mining companies brazenly invade Appalachian communities, blow the tops off mountains, send massive coal trucks careening up and down narrow roads, spew coal dust into the air and mining waste into the water, and terrorize reside ...
Topics: God and the Environment, grassroots activism, Kentucky, mining, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

Mother Knows Best Fed up with breast-milk contamination, mothers form a national activist group	Gregory Dicum	06 Nov 2006	Main Dish
Mary Brune looked worried. "I don't know what the problem is," she said, peering at the generator in the grass. Attached to it was a blower that was, in turn, attached to a puddle of yellow nylon. The next morning, that puddle was supposed to inflate to become a giant rubber ducky, the centerpiece of a protest Brune was leading at a Target store near her home in ...
Topics: grassroots activism, green living, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Majora League An interview with Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx	Amanda Griscom Little	28 Sep 2006	Main Dish
Majora Carter is no ordinary environmental leader. For starters: She's a woman, she's black, and she's not afraid to publicly challenge Al Gore. Majora Carter. Photos: Sustainable South Bronx In 2005, she was honored with a MacArthur "genius grant" for her work with Sustainable South Bronx, a group she founded to mobilize grassroots environmental activism among New Yo ...
Topics: environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, heroes, interview, New York (all these topics)

Park(ing) Make a parking space into an impromptu public park	David Roberts	22 Sep 2006	Gristmill

Topics: grassroots activism, green space, placemaking (all these topics)

Have Some Class: MoJo's campus activism roundup Mother Jones highlights the work of two eco-activists	Sarah van Schagen	06 Sep 2006	Gristmill

Topics: education, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Going to jail for the environment	Corey McKrill	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill

Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Oregon, politics (all these topics)

Lend Me Your Gears Blake Mycoskie, founder of eco-friendly driving school, answers readers' questions		14 Jul 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: cars, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids (all these topics)

World Naked Bike Ride, take three	Todd Hymas Samkara	13 Jun 2006	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, grassroots activism (all these topics)

The Sway of the World Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real	Amanda Griscom Little	19 May 2006	Muckraker

Topics: advertising, Al Gore, climate, grassroots activism, Muckraker (all these topics)

Paper View David Ford, biz consultant and forest advocate, answers readers' questions		28 Apr 2006	InterActivist
David Ford, head of Metafore. What is the most effective way to convince a Fortune 500 CEO that eco-friendly practices are good for the corporation?�� -- Andrew Fridley, Portland, Ore. In my experience, the most effective approach is to demonstrate to the CEO the business value of changing practices. You have to build a case beyond just risk mitigation. To really get the CEO's attention, you need t ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Have You Chatted With Ford Lately? David Ford, biz consultant and forest advocate, answers Grist's questions		24 Apr 2006	InterActivist
David Ford. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am the president and CEO of Metafore, an enterprise nonprofit based in Portland, Ore. How does it relate to the environment? We help businesses align their practices so they achieve positive social and environmental outcomes. In Metafore's view of the world, "Every business is in the forest business.&q ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

L.A. Story A virtual walking tour through an L.A. neighborhood with activists from Pacoima Beautiful		31 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. �� Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. The tiny community of Pacoima, at the north end of Los Angeles, suffers from nearly every imaginable obstacle to a healthy urban environment. That means, for starters, lead paint, freeway traffic, airports, landfills, diesel trucks, chemical manufacturing, power plants, heavy industry, an ...
Topics: air pollution, California, education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Fit to Be Ride Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers readers' questions		17 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas of the Bus Riders Union. How is your organization working with the state of California and the feds to bring cleaner transportation options to your communities? I noted that you mentioned gas-powered buses -- how many?�� -- Bill Turner, Dillsburg, Pa. Our main focus to this day has been working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an agency with an annual budget of $3 bill ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Ward Up Houston kids living near a Superfund site tell their stories in pictures		16 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to view a slide show of children's photos and collages. Collage: Wassim Elmetni (age 11). "Many Diversified Interests" sounds like a line from a college application, or advice from a responsible money manager. In fact, though, it's the name of a Superfund site in the Fifth Ward, one of the oldest and most disenfranchised neighborhoods of Houston, Texas. For the most part, children g ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, grassroots activism, Poverty and the Environment, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

The Bus Stops Here Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers Grist's questions		13 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas. What work do you do? I am a lead organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Bus Riders Union's Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign, based in Los Angeles. How does it relate to the environment? The Strategy Center has engaged in environmental-justice and civil-rights campaigns for the last 17 years, combining grassroots organizing and policy work with a str ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Rumblings in the Bronx A virtual walking tour of the South Bronx with Omar Freilla of Green Worker Cooperatives	Mary Wiltenburg	27 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Click image to take the tour. �� Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. New York's South Bronx was once a getaway for the rich; now the defining landmarks of the community are power plants, landfills, and parking lots. Where some might see hopelessness, though, resident Omar Freilla sees opportunity. Freilla founded Green Work ...
Topics: consumerism, environmental justice, grassroots activism, heroes, New York, Poverty and the Environment, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Turn the Eat Around Forgotten by many, a Brooklyn neighborhood nourishes its own	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Wander into Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood on a Saturday morning in summer, and you'll see a sight not uncommon in New York City these days: a thriving and diverse farmers' market. Neighborhood denizens cluster around stands offering free-range meat, fresh cheese, cream-on-top milk, and a whole array of fresh fruit and vegetables, many of them grown right down the block. An Added Value ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

I'm Hatin' It How the feds make bad-for-you food cheaper than healthful fare	Tom Philpott	22 Feb 2006	Main Dish
If you're going to talk about poverty, food, and the environment in the United States, you might as well start in the Corn Belt. So good, and so good for you -- until it's turned into soda. Photo: stock.xchng. This fertile area produces most of the country's annual corn harvest of more than 10 billion bushels, far and away the world's largest such haul. Where does it all go? The majority -- a ...
Topics: Big Ag, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, gardening, grassroots activism, industrial ag, local food, New York, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, sustainable ag (all these topics)

High oil prices make for the strangest bedfellows A coalition plugs (ha ha) for plug-in hybrids	biodiversivist	30 Jan 2006	Gristmill

Topics: Big Auto, cars, electric vehicles, energy, grassroots activism, renewable energy (all these topics)

Tire-less activism French SUV-haters deflate gas-guzzling tires	Todd Hymas Samkara	11 Oct 2005	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, cars, France, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Critical Mass media NYC cops crack down on bike event; media misunderstands it	Todd Hymas Samkara	03 Oct 2005	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Dispatches from Arctic Refuge Action Day A family sends firsthand accounts from the rally	Sarah van Schagen	21 Sep 2005	Gristmill

Topics: Arctic Refuge, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Change for a Ten On taking the next step	Umbra Fisk	24 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I've noticed that often you tell people "don't sweat the small stuff" and suggest they focus on the major issues (transportation, housing, etc.). What about those of us who already do that, and want to do even more? I can almost guarantee you we are the ones sending you questions about widgets and all the other seemingly minuscule choices one faces. So what, then, would you recommend for us hard-core, been-t ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, grassroots activism, green living (all these topics)

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