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Great Build		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Great Build It's not clear if the problem is one of economics or one of spin, but either way, environmentally conscious building design is a concept that hasn't quite caught on. The technology and expertise to build "green" structures have been around for decades; now, a movement is underway to sell developers on the economic benefits of green building. In an ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living, New York, placemaking (all these topics)

Grease Be With You Advice on converting to biodiesel	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I own a diesel VW Golf, which I bought thinking it was a better choice for the environment than a gasoline engine. Therefore, I was disappointed to read your message that diesel is probably a worse choice. However, you didn't talk at all about biodiesel. Can you give us a rundown on this fuel -- how to get it, how it may be beneficial, and what you might have to do to ensure your car can run on it safely? Thank ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, biofuels, cars, energy, food and agriculture, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Feeling Gassy		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Feeling Gassy Negotiators for the U.S. House and Senate have reached an agreement on new fuel-economy rules that would expand rather than decrease the country's oil consumption. Under the agreement, automakers would continue to receive credits through the model year 2008 for manufacturing vehicles that can run on both ethanol and gasolin ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Ecotopias, Part II On environmentally friendly communities, again	Umbra Fisk	19 Sep 2002	Ask Umbra
Dearest Readers, In my last column, I received a plea from James "Captain Planet" Fitzpatrick of Florida, a firefighter looking to relocate to a small, friendly, environmentally conscious mountain community with good schools, reasonably clean air and water, and no polluting companies or toxic waste sites. As this was obviously a job for discerning Grist readers, I turned the question over to ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Ecotopias, Part I On environmentally friendly communities	Umbra Fisk	06 Sep 2002	Ask Umbra
Hello, Umbra, I have been a firefighter for 23 years in Florida and have been reading Grist for the last couple of years. I am very environmentally conscious (probably why my nickname at the fire station is Captain Planet) and am starting to look for a place to move with mountains, small and friendly (preferably environmentally conscious) communities that still have reasonably clean air and water and a lack of hu ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Sin Diesel On diesel engines	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Longtime reader; first-time writer. Love the column. My partner and I recently bought a small station wagon to replace our 4WD pick-up and '83 sedan. After some debate, we chose a turbo-diesel engine that boasts about 45 miles per gallon instead of a gas engine, which gets about 30 MPG. Our thinking led us to choose the higher fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions of the diesel engine, although the gas engine produces fewer par ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

Autodidactic On picking the right car	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In 1981, I bought my first car, a Honda Civic. It was a great car, and despite what certain congressional leaders say about car size and safety, an excellent vehicle for handling winter snow and ice in mountain driving in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The problem is that now, living in Pennsylvania, my husband and I and our three children are looking for a car that will be able to carry the five of us for the next 10 years wi ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Coolant On cooling your car	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Is it more efficient to drive down the highway with my windows down or the air conditioner on? I know the air conditioner decreases gas mileage, but I bet having my windows down at 75 miles per hour produces pretty good drag. Thanks, Sara Dearest Sara, This is July's Question of the Month for Grist readers, apparently. I received a passel of virtually identical queries with minute variations. ("How much drag do you get from ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Better, By Design		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

EV-ing Can't Wait		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

A Thousand Acres ... Well, Make That 4.7		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
A Thousand Acres ... Well, Make That 4.7 Global standards of living will plummet by mid-century unless human beings drastically decrease their use of natural resources, according to a report issued yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund. The main culprits in the overuse of resources are the world's richest countries: the U.S., Canada, Japan, and most of Western Europe, according to "L ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Environmental Quality Is Job One		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Environmental Quality Is Job One A new TV and radio advertising campaign by the Sierra Club calls on the automobile industry to cut its oil use as an act of patriotism -- and singles out Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr., to lead the way. The great-grandson of Henry Ford, William Ford used to be seen as an auto industry iconoclast, conversant on climate change and critical of profligate oi ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Car Talk On hybrid cars	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, hi, With Honda having just released its gas-electric hybrid Civic in the U.S., many enviros are scrambling to buy one. But one question that hasn't been answered to my knowledge is whether the total amount of energy, pollution, mining, etc. involved in making a new car -- even a hybrid -- constitutes a greater overall environmental impact than the added emissions and fossil-fuel consumption of a huge old second-hand clunker that would cost ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

A Real Earth Mother	Suzy Becker	06 May 2002	Ha.

Topics: energy, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics)

Katie Car Ick		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

The Secret Life of a Telecommuter	Suzy Becker	11 Feb 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

The Old Year's Resolutions	Suzy Becker	07 Jan 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

I Want You ... To Buy More Stuff! Gluttony at home is not necessary for victory abroad	Jane Holtz Kay	14 Dec 2001	Soapbox
My grandmother, the family provider in World War II's market of scarcity, pleaded -- or was it flirted? -- with the butcher for meat. My father, who couldn't hit his hat with a hammer, volunteered for military service and wound up in Boston army ordinance helping "our boys" make munitions. On "the home front," my mother taught my sister and me to paste savings ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Flexing Their Muscles		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Muscles The car-sharing company Flexcar is planning to expand beyond its Northwest roots and enter the Washington, D.C., market this fall, where it will compete with Boston-based Zipcar. Both companies work to reduce the number of cars on the road by enticing customers to share vehicles and avoid the hassles of car ownership. Customers pa ...
Topics: business, green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC (all these topics)

Oregon Trailblazers		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Oregon Trailblazers When it comes to sustainability, Oregon is No. 1, says the San Francisco-based Resource Renewal Institute. The group ranked states on transit spending, open-space protection, recycling, and pollution prevention, among other things. New Jersey (shocking!) and Minnesota came in second and third, respectively. The institute's Randy Solomon said Oregon took top honors be ...
Topics: green living, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Neighborhood Watch The people next door can help you think green	Elizabeth Sawin	06 Sep 2001	Global Citizen
Everywhere I have lived, I have had neighbors, sometimes in houses just 15 or 20 feet away. Always I've had a garden and woodpile, sometimes bees, chickens, and fruit trees. In each place I have lived, I have given the garden a lot of my love and care, the lawn and shrubs a bit less. Everywhere I have lived there have been occasional questions, comments, and complaints from neighbors. "What's ...
Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Get Your Solar Kicks on Route 66		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Get Your Solar Kicks on Route 66 The longest solar-powered car race came to end yesterday in Claremont, Calif., with a University of Michigan team in the lead. The victorious single-passenger car took 56 hours and 10 minutes to cover 2,247 miles in a 10-day race along Route 66. Twenty-eight teams finished the race, the sixth since the first U.S. competition in 1990 The cars' price tags ran ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

EV Rider		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
EV Rider As part of a pilot program by California to reduce pollution and increase the popularity of gas-free vehicles, Anaheim is offering free use of 10 electric cars in some of its lower-income neighborhoods. The golf cart-like cars are available to people who have a valid driver's license and a decent driving record. With a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour, the cars are ...
Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

What Would Jesus Drive? Ministers help kick off new phase of anti-SUV campaign	Bill McKibben	05 Jun 2001	Main Dish
There are more scenic places for a demonstration -- the Lincoln Memorial, say, or the lawn of the Capitol. But the Lynnway, an endless stretch of dreary light industry and heavy commerce just north of Boston, was perfect for our purposes. Not because of the greyhound racing track, not because of the discount furniture outlets. Because of the auto dealers, crowded with shiny SUVs. Just marr ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, cars, consumerism, green living, placemaking, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Burning Rubber	Todd Hettenbach	13 Oct 2000	Counter Culture
6.5 million -- number of tires recalled this year by Bridgestone/Firestone 270 million -- number of scrap tires generated in the U.S. in 1998 500 million -- number of scrap tires currently in U.S. stockpiles 35 -- number of U.S. states that ban whole tires from landfills 59 -- number of tire fires in the U.S. between 1996 and 1998 14 million -- number of tires consumed in a 1990 tire fire in Hagersville, Ontario, the largest tire fire in history, whi ...
Topics: energy, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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