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The Reformer in the Dell		20 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Reformer in the Dell Beginning on March 25, owners of outdated Dell personal computers will be able to treat them like glass, aluminum, plastic, and paper -- by leaving them on the curb for recycling. For $15, Dell will haul away up to 50 pounds worth of discarded computer components (monitors, hard drives, laptops, and the like) for recycling or donation to other users. The plan is an improvement on a recy ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

The Motherboard of Invention		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Motherboard of Invention As Grist reported Monday, discarded electronic equipment poses a serious environmental and health hazard in the developing world, where obsolete computers and other products are stripped and recycled. Now, we have some good news to add; 16 electronics recyclers in the U.S. and Canada have committed to keeping monitors, cables, and motherboards out of the hands of impoverish ...
Topics: green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Maple Syrup		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Maple Syrup Canada yesterday set aside $1.3 billion over five years to slash its greenhouse gas emissions and another $660 million for other environmental initiatives, as part of what Environment Minister David Anderson called "the greenest budget this country has ever seen." The government also approved a tax break for cleaner diesel and agreed to priorit ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Super-efficient Cheeseheads		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Super-efficient Cheeseheads Going green could save Wisconsin more than $225 million over the next two years, according to a coalition of state environmental groups. Yesterday, the groups released a "Green Budget" itemizing ways Wisconsin could save money while protecting the environment. One of the budget's simplest recommendations -- using more efficient lighting and turning ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Muck Ado About Something		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Muck Ado About Something Russian journalist and environmental muckraker Grigory Pasko was paroled from prison yesterday after serving part of a highly contested term for treason. Pasko became the poster-child for concerns about Russian limitations on press freedoms when he was convicted for taking notes during a 1997 meeting of Russian naval ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (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)

Boy, You're Gonna Carry That Weight		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

The Left Wing		04 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Left Wing Ah, the ever-elusive boundary between art and life. Who knows where it lies, but by all indications, somewhere right down the middle of the NBC drama "The West Wing." Here's the proof: This week, New Mexico's Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources felt the need to issue a press release explaining that Wednesday's episode of the hit show was fictional. In the show, a truck car ...
Topics: energy, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em Betting comes naturally to Nevadans, but the stakes are high and the odds are poor for a last-ditch effort to keep 77,000 tons of nuclear waste out of a proposed high-level radioactive waste facility in Yucca Mountain. The state's U.S. senators are about to unveil a multi-million dollar media blitz aimed at swaying the votes of key Republican lawmakers -- largely by ...
Topics: green living, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bananarama Price tags don't tell the full story	Elizabeth Sawin	11 Mar 2002	Global Citizen
I have a young friend who, I think, will never eat another banana without thinking a great deal about its history. Going bananas. On a trip to Belize, Hannah and other home-schooled teenagers saw monkeys, the rainforest, and Mayan villages. But the memory that seems to stand out most vividly is of a banana plantation. The workers at the plantation Hannah visited do not wear protective clothing. When planes fly overhea ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Lost at Sea		07 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Lost at Sea In the midst of an expedition to document the impact of global warming and pollution on the Amazon Basin, America's Cup champion Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed yesterday, when pirates boarded his research boat at the mouth of the Amazon River. Blake, a 53-year-old native of Auckland, New Zealand, won the yacht race in 1995 and 2000, but h ...
Topics: Amazon, Amazon River, climate, green living, New Zealand, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Put a Radioactive Fork in It		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Put a Radioactive Fork in It A proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive steel did not go over well with environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Minneapolis yesterday. The DOE is considering a plan to recycle slightly contaminated scrap metal from its research and weapons facilities. The recycled steel would then be used in consumer goods from snow shovels ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm		26 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Come on In, the Water's Warm A beachside nuclear reactor in Brazil leaked thousands of gallons of slightly radioactive water in May, but the public didn't learn about the problem until the Brazilian magazine Epoca broke the news earlier this week. Most of the water leaking from the Angra reactor was contained by an emergency tank, and the plant was shut down for a week. ...
Topics: Brazil, green living, Greenpeace, nuclear power, oceans, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bad Company		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Bad Company Commercial recycling is hit or miss in the U.S. -- in some cases, for example, companies assume that recycling is occurring, but their cleaning companies are actually mixing recycling with garbage and throwing everything out as trash. From 35 to 45 percent of waste produced in the U.S. in 1999 was commercial, according to the U.S. EPA. Unlike in Europe, however, t ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Electric Boogie	Todd Hettenbach	16 Mar 2001	Counter Culture
12,133 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the U.S. in 1997 1,381 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the rest of the world in 1997 21.5 -- percentage increase in U.S. electricity consumption from 1990 to 1999 43 -- percentage decrease in utility funding for energy efficiency from 1993 to 1998 90 -- percentage of total U.S. coal consumption used to generate electricity in 1998 33 -- percentag ...
Topics: green living, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Free-Range at Last, Free-Range at Last Is cheap meat worth the karmic cost of industrial animal production?	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	20 Nov 2000	Soapbox
With Thanksgiving nigh, the question arises: What is the meaning of sustainable cuisine? Which came first? Kennedy with both a chicken and an egg. The word sustainable expresses the obligation that each generation has to the next to preserve the value of the natural world. It does not mean we can't use nature. Humankind, a predatory animal, is part of ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Lost at Sea	Suzy Becker	07 Apr 2000	Ha.

Topics: green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Food for Thought	Donella H. Meadows	13 Mar 2000	Global Citizen
The strangest news items about organic food have been popping up. It isn't good for you after all. It's full of bacteria and insect parts. You folks who pay a high price for it are not only suckers, you're risking your health. Toxic tomato? Not if it's organic. ABC's John Stossel recently interviewed Dennis Avery, "a leading critic of organic produce," who said organic foods are grown with (oh no, tell me it's not true!) manure. As we ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Kick in the Grass	Josh Sevin	26 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
20 million acres of U.S. land are covered by lawn 1 hour spent mowing a lawn with a gas-powered mower produces as many emissions as 50 hours spent driving an average car 5 percent of U.S. air pollution in summer months is emitted by gas-powered lawn equipment 27,000 gallons of water are needed each week to maintain an acre of lawn 35 percent of all household water is used to tend yards 32 million pounds of pesticides were used on U.S. lawns in 1994 S ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

To Have and Have Not	Josh Sevin	01 Dec 1999	Counter Culture
5 percent of the world's human population resides in the U.S. 30 percent of the world's resources are used by the U.S. 8 motor vehicles are on the roads in China for every 1,000 Chinese citizens 750 motor vehicles are on the roads in the U.S. for every 1,000 U.S. citizens 15 kilograms of paper are consumed annually by each person in the developing world 333 kilograms of paper are consumed annually by each person in the U.S. 20 percent of the world's ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

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