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The Executive Ranch The scoop on Bush's Texas getaway	Umbra Fisk	15 Oct 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I heard a rumor that President Bush's Texas ranch is off the grid. I find it very hard to believe (unless "off the grid" means he has his own oil well and refinery set up) and I can't find any documentation about it. Ever heard this? Know if it's true or false? Skeptical, Julie Chicago, Ill. Dearest Julie, "Off the grid," for our curious readers, is not a reference to pancake cookery ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, electricity grid, energy at home, George Bush, geothermal power, green living, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly 'Java Log' Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly "Java Log" Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market Ah, winter -- icicles on the eves, smoke rising from the chimneys, a crackling fire, and emerging from it, that fragrant, familiar smell of ... coffee? Yep, that's right: A Canadian company is marketing fake logs made of recycled coffee grounds. Other fake logs, made of everything from sa ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests As California strives to protect its own forests, rising demand for wood in the state is fueling logging far afield, in Oregon, the southeastern U.S., Canada, and even Europe. According to a new report by the state Department of Forestry, California imports about 75 percent of its wood and paper products. The problem is ...
Topics: California, Canada, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Oil Be Seeing You Oil and Gas Supplies Will Peak in a Decade, Swedish Scientists Assert		02 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Oil Be Seeing You Oil and Gas Supplies Will Peak in a Decade, Swedish Scientists Assert World oil and gas supplies will peak soon after 2010 and be in short supply thereafter, causing worldwide economic havoc unless societies have adopted alternatives to fossil fuels, Swedish scientists predict in a controversial article published today in New Scientist magazine. Other scientists have estimated that supplies might top out in ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living (all these topics)

Nettling Question Nettle Fabric Could Be Eco-Friendly Replacement for Cotton		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nettling Question Nettle Fabric Could Be Eco-Friendly Replacement for Cotton Fabric made from stinging nettles could be the next big thing in eco-friendly fashion. The process of growing nettles is much gentler on the Earth than growing cotton, which generally entails high use of water and pesticides. (Almost a quarter of the world's pesticides are sprayed on cotton plants.) In contrast, nettles don't ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Fairest of Them All Fair-Trade Food Starts to Catch on in the U.S.		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Fairest of Them All Fair-Trade Food Starts to Catch on in the U.S. Hey, you -- sipping the fair-trade, shade-grown, organic coffee. How would you like a fair-trade banana with that? Or a fair-trade chocolate bar? A small but growing number of products in U.S. grocery stores carry a fair-trade label issued by TransFair USA, based in Oakland, Calif., which guarantees that the workers in developing countries w ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living (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)

Scrub Tub On dishwashers	Umbra Fisk	25 Sep 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm in the market for a new dishwasher, one that uses as little water and energy as possible and still gets that flatware sparklin' clean. But I don't have a lot of dough to blow on appliances. Any thoughts? Dean Orem, Utah Dearest Dean, I really can't say enough about Consumer Reports and its online archives of product reviews and ratings. The subscription is worth the $4.95 per month. An Energy Star-bellied dishwasher. Photo: U.S ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Better Latex Than Never On eco-friendly birth control	Umbra Fisk	25 Sep 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am wondering about the most environmentally safe form of birth control. From what I understand, women's birth control pills put terrible amounts of hormones into the world's waters and cause genetic mutations in fish. On the other hand, constantly using and discarding plastic condoms, including the packaging these come in, does not seem like a great solution. Are there more options out there that would ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, sex (all these topics)

Squeaky Green Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products Make Inroads into the Mainstream		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Squeaky Green Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products Make Inroads into the Mainstream It's hard to get excited about housecleaning, but Monica Nassif has found a way. In fact, as the president of two separate companies that manufacture eco-friendly cleaning products, Nassif was one of the most enthusiastic participants in the 19th annual Natural Products Expo East, held this month in Washington, D.C. Representatives from about 15 natural cle ...
Topics: business, green living (all these topics)

A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides New Leaf Paper, a small but fast-growing recycled paper company in San Francisco, aims to revolutionize the paper industry -- a revolution that's sorely needed. Ninety percent of printing and writing paper in the U.S. still has no recycled content at all, says Susan Kinsella, executive director of the nonprofit Conservatree. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Of Classrooms and Closets Eco-friendly supplies and clothes for back to school and beyond	Diane di Costanzo, for the Green Guide	15 Sep 2003	Earthly Possessions
The beginning of the school year -- already a stressful time for kids and parents -- is often made even more difficult by all the purchasing pressure, from long lists of school supplies sent home by teachers to ads promoting fashionable new wardrobes for children. In 2003, Americans will spend $14.1 billion on back-to-school items, with $6.5 billion of t ...
Topics: green living, toxics (all these topics)

Going Bananas Philippine Journalists Arrested for Reporting on Illegal Pesticide Use		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Going Bananas Philippine Journalists Arrested for Reporting on Illegal Pesticide Use Four journalists working in the Philippines, including a New York Times correspondent, have been arrested on libel charges because of articles and columns they wrote in 2000 about the use of illegal pesticides at a banana plantation. Also arrested was Romeo Quijano, a professor of medicine at the University of the Philip ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

I Love Trash New Fuel Cell Uses Bacteria to Generate Power		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
I Love Trash New Fuel Cell Uses Bacteria to Generate Power Maybe it's not just a Back to the Future fantasy: If scientists at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst keep making progress in developing a "microbial fuel cell," one day trash might be able to power any number of devices (though probably not a time-traveling DeLorean). In an article in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers describe a new, high ...
Topics: green living, water pollution (all these topics)

Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies It's not often that an environmental organization takes out a full-page ad in the New York Times to praise a forest-products company, so it's safe to say that Boise Cascade Corp. has done something extraordinary. This week, the company reconfirmed its commitment to phasing out old-growth harvesting in the U.S. by 2004 and agreed to ado ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Bill 'er Up Bill Moyers Speaks His Mind on Bush-Brand Environmental Destruction		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, politics (all these topics)

Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan Last week's blackout in the eastern U.S. and Canada caused food spoilage, water contamination, economic losses, transportation delays, and all manner of disruptions ranging from the inconvenient to the awful. Now, environmentalists fear it might also cause a change for the worse in U.S. national energy policy. They worry th ...
Topics: Canada, green living, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

It's a Nice Day For a Light Wedding On wedding presents	Umbra Fisk	18 Aug 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife and I have made great progress in simplifying our lives. We don't own a car (we take the bus, walk, bike, and occasionally rent a car), we have cut back on our use of water and power, and we are working on avoiding "more stuff." We're just wondering what we might give as wedding gifts to children of our friends in order to be in line with our goal yet not seem "weird." Any id ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living (all these topics)

Bath Math On bathing	Umbra Fisk	18 Aug 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, On a link that I got from Grist's Do Good section, it says that taking baths instead of showers conserves water. What's the logic behind this? I measured how much water I use when I shower, and it's about a quarter of the amount that I use for baths. So it doesn't make much sense that bathing conserves more water than showering. Am I just weird or is there another reason? Jesse Ross-Silverman Northampton, Mass. Dearest Jesse, I'm not th ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living (all these topics)

Holy Matrimony, Batman		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: green living (all these topics)

Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning Concerned about their health and wary of technology, Europeans have long cast a skeptical eye on that most commonplace of U.S. appliances, the air conditioner. But this summer's blistering heat has begun to change all that. Air conditioner sales in Europe are growing by more than 10 percent per year -- and this summer, the units ar ...
Topics: climate, energy, European Union, green living (all these topics)

Have You Tried Corn Fiber Clothes?	Suzy Becker	12 Aug 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living (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)

The Postman Always Recycles Twice U.K. to Increase Recycling of Junk Mail 70 Percent Over 10 Years		07 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Postman Always Recycles Twice U.K. to Increase Recycling of Junk Mail 70 Percent Over 10 Years The U.S. has finally got a "Do Not Call" registry to ward off would-be telemarketers -- but will it ever get a "Do Not Mail" registry to stem the endless tide of junk mail? Maybe not, but across the Atlantic, the U.K. is taking steps to limit the environmental impact of unwanted mail. At present, ab ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United Kingdom (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)

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