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Dirty Movies Hollywood spews excess pollution along with its blockbusters		15 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Dirty Movies Hollywood spews excess pollution along with its blockbusters Hollywood is facing an inconvenient truth: it's a dirty industry. A UCLA report says TV and film productions pollute more than four other local industries, including aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing (but likely less than oil refineries, so that's a comfort). Set construction, special effects, and other excesses emit 140,0 ...
Topics: California, green living, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dropping Pounds From Their Waste U.K. shoppers encouraged to bully manufacturers that create excess waste		15 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Dropping Pounds From Their Waste U.K. shoppers encouraged to bully manufacturers that create excess waste Offering hope to scofflaws everywhere, U.K. Environment Minister Ben Bradshaw says British shoppers should leave "unnecessary and excessive" packaging at store checkouts and tattle on package-happy manufacturers. The government-sanctioned shop and skedaddle plan sounds delightfully nau ...
Topics: green living, news, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Them's the Breaks Made to Break reveals the roots of our throwaway culture	Elizabeth Grossman	29 Jun 2006	Arts and Minds
Made to Break reveals the roots of our throwaway culture By Elizabeth Grossman 29 Jun 2006 What could be more American than reaching for something new? The U.S. is, after all, a nation founded on the rejection of tradition and a profound belief in invention. This urge has given us more than two centuries of powerful technology, but has also made Americans the world's most voracious consumers. The propensity to buy, discard, and buy again is no accident, explains Giles Slade in ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled New Orleans is taking great pains to recycle the waste left by Hurricane Katrina. Wait, you believed that? We're totally lying. Debris from the pummeled city is being dumped in the landfill by the truckload, including heaps of potentially reusable building materials such as ...
Topics: green living, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill		26 May 2005	Daily Grist
An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill One of the toughest electronic-waste bills in the U.S. was introduced in the New York City Council yesterday. It would require producers of electronic equipment like computers and televisions to collect and recycle those devices -- that is, if they want to maintain selling rights within the city. City officials like council me ...
Topics: green living, New York, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Ceci N'est Pas une Wipe Disposable wipes not just for baby bums anymore		27 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ceci N'est Pas une Wipe Disposable wipes not just for baby bums anymore The season of spring cleaning is upon us, and for many Americans that means taking to dirty surfaces with a few -- or a few million -- disposable wipes. With varieties specially made for scrubbing, dusting, disinfecting, and buffing everything from microwaves to granite countertops to leather goods, it's estimated that North Americans used some ...
Topics: green living, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Apple Dumping Gang Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green		09 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Apple Dumping Gang Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green New legislation introduced in the House of Representatives last week would establish a consumer fee on computer and television purchases to fund a national electronics recycling program. But activists say the real answer to the "e-waste" problem is increased responsibility from manufacturers, and many are focusing their ire on Apple, maker o ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Design of the Times Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon		24 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Design of the Times Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon Mindful of the growing impact of consumer electronics on the waste stream -- and of the likelihood that government regulations could one day require them to recycle their own wares -- electronics manufacturers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic are beginning to design products with their full lifecycle in mind. ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions		20 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions In what is likely to be a growing trend, a private company is stepping in to make money by offering people a concrete way to take positive action against global warming. Benven LLC runs a program called TerraPass, which emerged from a classroom project at the Wharton School of Business. TerraPass sells carbon-dioxide re ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract The debate over whether recycling is economically "worth it" continues, but one famously tight-fisted municipal leader has made up his mind. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) announced that the city will sign a 20-year contract with one of the nation's largest recycling companies, Hugo Neu Corp., which will build a ...
Topics: green living, New York, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

DMBM Dave Matthews Band Tour Bus Dumps Doo-Doo on Boat Passengers		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
DMBM Dave Matthews Band Tour Bus Dumps Doo-Doo on Boat Passengers An alleged environmental infraction by a Dave Matthews Band tour bus left passengers on a Chicago River sightseeing tour boat with a bad taste in their mouths -- literally. While on a bridge over the river, the driver apparently emptied the bus's waste tank with the intent of sending its contents -- up to 800 pounds of raw human waste -- into the ...
Topics: green living, Illinois, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group The popular search engine Google is facing accusations of censorship after it refused to carry ads from an environmental group that is protesting a major cruise line's sewage-treatment methods. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Oceana paid Google to run an ad that read &qu ...
Topics: business, Florida, green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington DC (all these topics)

Nano, Nano		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nano, Nano A new paint set to go on sale in Europe in March promises to absorb the most noxious gases from automobile exhaust. Invented by British company Millennium Chemicals, Ecopaint contains spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, suspended in a base of polysiloxane (a silicon-based polymer). Hey, wake up, the good part ...
Topics: air pollution, England, European Union, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

State of the Art		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
State of the Art One hundred years ago, progressives believed that states were laboratories of democracy, small-scale testing grounds for innovative policies. While the civil-rights struggle cast that view into disfavor, it may be on its way to a renaissance, led by forward-thinking state leaders concerned about the environment. Spurred by the federal governme ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, Maryland, New Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Death Be Not Toxic Green Burials Catch on Amongst the Eco-Friendly Set		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Death Be Not Toxic Green Burials Catch on Amongst the Eco-Friendly Set It's no longer enough to live an eco-friendly life; now, the greenest of the green are planning for their own eco-friendly deaths. A small but growing number of people are seeking out burial in green cemeteries. Ramsey Creek Preserve in Westminster, S.C., is one such spot, a 35-acre expanse of woodla ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, South Carolina, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Watching Their Waste California Passes Cutting-Edge E-Waste Law		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Watching Their Waste California Passes Cutting-Edge E-Waste Law Consistent with its habit of pushing the environmental envelope, California has adopted the nation's most comprehensive law governing the manufacture and disposal of electronics. The law has three main purposes: to speed the recycling of discarded computers and televisions (some 6 million of which await disposal across the ...
Topics: California, green living, politics, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics		07 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Working on the Chain Gang California Cancels Use of Prison Labor to Recycle Electronics California will no longer use underpaid federal prisoners to recycle the tons of potentially dangerous electronics discarded by state workers. The decision to stop shipping e-waste to prisons came in response to pressure from environmental and labor activists, who also successfully protested ...
Topics: business, California, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Let the Games Be Green Enviros Accuse 2004 Athens Olympic Organizers of Green Failings		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Let the Games Be Green Enviros Accuse 2004 Athens Olympic Organizers of Green Failings Organizers of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens are already getting poor scores from environmentalists, who say the Greeks have missed numerous opportunities to make the games more eco-friendly. Greece won its bid to host the games in part by pledging to protect vulnerable natural and cultural areas an ...
Topics: Greece, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Passing the Bucket How the five-gallon plastic bucket came to the aid of grassroots environmentalists	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Jul 2003	Main Dish
The plastic five-gallon bucket is the most humdrum of containers, yet it's proved to be almost as versatile as duct tape. Creative sorts have turned buckets into toolboxes and ottomans, planters and panniers. And in recent years, some environmental activists have begun using the humble bucket for an even higher purpose: These days, five-gallon buckets may literall ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bottleneck		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Bottleneck Evian, Perrier, Poland Spring -- bottled water has become ubiquitous in the U.S., and the resultant plastic containers are posing an increasingly serious problem by clogging landfills and contributing to air pollution. In California, where bottled water is particularly popular, the state Department of Conservation is unveiling a campaign this week to convince consumers to recycle rather ...
Topics: California, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Self-Destructive Behavior		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Self-Destructive Behavior It sounds like a bad movie. Wait, it IS a bad movie. A bad DVD, to be precise -- at least from an environmental standpoint. A division of Walt Disney this August will begin selling DVDs that self-destruct after 48 hours, dubbed EZ-Ds. After an EZ-D's plastic packaging is opened and it's exposed to oxygen, the disk plays perfectly for 48 hours; then a chemical ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Greener Curry		23 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, education, food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Too Cool, from School		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Too Cool, from School Pennsylvania State University has undertaken a massive new recycling program -- not for paper or plastics or food waste, but for the mammoth piles of stuff that students leave behind at the end of every school year, from sneakers to TVs to sofas. The end-of-term junk problem grew into a major headache on U.S. campuses during the 1990s, as ...
Topics: green living, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

We're All Ears		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
We're All Ears Everyone knows you can eat corn -- but can you eat using plates, cups, and forks made from corn? Absolutely, and doing so can help reduce both waste and oil consumption, say advocates of biodegradable corn products. Although it's not quite true that "anything that can be made from a barrel of crude oil can be made from a kernel of corn," as Randy Cruise, a Nebraska farmer put it, it's not far off: ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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