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The Pledge of Reason Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		23 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. Yesterday evening, the Road to Detroit team of organizers joined up with our brave Drive the Future we ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

What's All the Bus About? Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		22 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Monday, 22 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. In the madness of classic cars and signs reading "Burn Out," "Light Her Up," a ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Mind Over Motor Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign		19 Aug 2005	Dispatches
The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 Friday, 19 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. We know you know about fuel-efficient cars. You may even own one. Peak oil, the rising price at the pump, an ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Nudity. Cycling. What's not to like? Heck, I'd cycle nude even if it wasn't for a good cause	Todd Hymas Samkara	13 Jun 2005	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, dirty hippies, grassroots activism, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Epistled Off On letter-writing campaigns	Umbra Fisk	16 May 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I just switched to all-natural cleaning products (Seventh Generation, it's great!) and I wanted my switch to have the most impact possible. I was thinking about sending emails to the companies whose cleaning products I had previously used, telling them why I switched, describing the nasty effects of their products, and encouraging them to change their products to be earth-friendly. I also thought I would send this ema ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, grassroots activism, green living, green products, toxics (all these topics)

Ken Ward: Response to "Death": Part III	David Roberts	16 Mar 2005	Gristmill

Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Panel Surfing Enviro-justice activists send a dispatch from a panel with The Reapers		03 Mar 2005	Dispatches
Vivian Chang and Manami Kano are executive director and development director, respectively, of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, an environmental-justice organization that builds grassroots leadership in immigrant Asian communities and works in multi-racial and multi-issue alliances to build progressive power for equity, sustainability, and justice. � Thursday, 03 Mar 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. The Asian ...
Topics: Asia, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Uprisings down under	Katharine Wroth	17 Feb 2005	Gristmill

Topics: art, Australia, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Got Time? On effective activism	Umbra Fisk	07 Feb 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, If an environmentalist has about six hours per week to devote to activism, what should the person do to make the biggest, most positive impact? Some people (like myself) think that climate protection is a key leverage point -- but is it? If yes, why, and what is the best way activists can help protect the climate? (And what's a leverage point anyway?) Ann Graton, Calif. Dearest Ann, Such a good question, and so important that ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, grassroots activism, green living, NRDC, placemaking (all these topics)

Celebrate Buy Nothing Day at Wal-Mart	Lisa Hymas	24 Nov 2004	Gristmill

Topics: Wal-Mart, consumerism, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Oh Danny Boy An interview with green-style guru Danny Seo	Amanda Griscom	21 Sep 2004	Main Dish
If Martha Stewart really is having a new-age awakening as she prepares to enter the clink (she just bought Body & Soul Magazine and rumor has it she intends to give her lifestyle empire a hint, at least, of green), she might want to take notes from one competitor who, at the tender age of 27, is already burnishing his reputation as America's reigning environmental lifestyle expert. That would be Danny ...
Topics: celebrity, fashion, grassroots activism, green living, green products, interview (all these topics)

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

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)

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