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The Paper Chase
On corporate paper recycling |
Umbra Fisk |
23 Apr 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| I work for a large corporation that is very wasteful with paper. I am looking for information on whom I can complain to about this so that something will happen. They do not use recycled paper or require any recycling of paper. Beth Dearest Beth, Prepare yourself: The fate of reams of office paper is in your hands. You must be the defender of the discarded draft, the champion of the crumpled wad, the protector of the printer ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, education, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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I Believe in Yesterday!
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23 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| I Believe in Yesterday! While President Bush and former Vice President Al Gore spent Earth Day talking up the environment and taking jabs at each other, how was the rest of the world celebrating the occasion? In Indonesia, environmentalists blocked traffic and planted trees; in Thailand, some 15,000 Buddhists prayed for the Earth; in the Philippines, cyclists filled streets in the capital city; and back in the U.S. of A., Susan Sara ... |
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| Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Sharri Baby
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Eco-Decorating
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Suzy Becker |
15 Apr 2002 |
Ha. |
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| Topics: green living (all these topics) |
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The Left Wing
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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 ... |
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| Topics: energy, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em
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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 ... |
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| Topics: green living, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Appliance of My Eye
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22 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Appliance of My Eye Meanwhile, drought conditions in parts of the U.S. are driving up sales of water-efficient toilets, faucets, laundry machines, dishwashers, and other appliances. Home Depot and Sears are among the companies benefiting from consumers' itch to shift away from water guzzlers. Sears spokesperson Larry Costello said water- and energy-efficient appliances now represent 17 percent of the company's applianc ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, United States (all these topics) |
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Quit Being Modest
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22 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: green living Quit Being Modest Enviros chalked up a small victory yesterday when the U.S. Senate threw its support behind a measure requiring that investor-owned utilities produce at least 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The Senate did so by rejecting, 58 to 40, an attempt by Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) to remove the requirement from the comprehensive energy bill before the chamber. Some enviros weren't satisfied with yesterday's win. The Sierra Club' ... |
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| Topics: green living (all these topics) |
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I Sing the Garbage Electric
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21 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| I Sing the Garbage Electric Maybe President Bush can learn a thing or two about environmental policy during his visit today to Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city and home to an innovative program to turn rotting garbage into electricity. The city government is working with a local energy company to construct an electricity plant at the Salinas Victoria Landfill; the plant will turn methane produced by decomposing ... |
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| Topics: green living, Mexico, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Doo Process
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Suzy Becker |
11 Mar 2002 |
Ha. |
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| Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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I'm Too Sexy for My Trash
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07 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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Talkin' Trash
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01 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Talkin' Trash What do you do with 11,000 tons of garbage per day? That's the problem -- well, one of the problems -- plaguing New York City, whose trash disposal system is becoming a political, logistical, and financial headache for the beleaguered metropolis. A $6 billion long-term garbage-management plan devised by the Giuliani administration is stalled and may fail entirely, and a s ... |
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| Topics: green living, New York, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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Pax With the Devil
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21 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Pax With the Devil Enron is seldom called "socially conscious" these days -- but that's how some investment companies routinely described the company in the not-too-distant past. The Pax World Balanced Fund, which promotes investing in good corporate citizens, and the Domini 400 Social Index and Calvert Social Index, which screen stocks ba ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, India, United States, wind power (all these topics) |
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Katie Alvord, author
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15 Feb 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 15 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. Yesterday I heard a rumor that there's sap running in some of the local sugar maples. If that's true, it's highly unusual for February -- sap usually doesn't run until spring -- but we may have had enough unseasonably warm days this winter to confuse the trees. Even t ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics) |
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Katie Car Ick
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15 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Katie Alvord, author
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14 Feb 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 14 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. I suppose Valentine's Day is an appropriate time to share a ride into town with my spouse. With today's trip we'll attend two appointments and run half a dozen errands. When we share rides to town, we often park in one central place, then walk to our various des ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics) |
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Hot to Rot?
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14 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hot to Rot? The U.S. EPA announced this week a two-year phase out of an arsenic-based preservative used to pressure-treat lumber against rot and insect damage. The treated wood is popular for use in fences, decks, and playground equipment, and its manufacturers and vendors -- including Home Depot and other building-supply stores -- currently face a class-action suit for an alleged failure to adequately warn ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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White Trash Turns Green
A review of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
Gregory Gipson |
14 Feb 2002 |
Arts and Minds |
| "Beauty is so much in demand," A. R. Ammons writes in his magnificent poem, "Garbage," that "it's a wonder natural / selection hasn't thinned out anything not perfectly / beautiful." Nature, he adds, "likes a broad spectrum approaching disorder so / as to maintain the potential of change with / variety and environment." Ecology of a Cracker Childhood By Janisse ... |
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| Topics: green living, Southeast (all these topics) |
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White Trash Turns Green
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14 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: Alabama, education, Florida, Georgia, green living, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Katie Alvord, author
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13 Feb 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. I'm sitting at my computer in cozy slippers and my favorite sweatshirt, getting ready for another work-at-home day. Outside my window a few snowflakes drift down between bare gray maple branches and deep green spruce boughs, a calm contrast to yesterday's Arctic bl ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics) |
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Grants' Tomb?
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13 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Grants' Tomb? The U.S. EPA has awarded more than $2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993 through a process that the agency's internal watchdog says is seriously flawed. Many grants were awarded without competitive bids, and some groups may have received preferential treatment. Some of the awards went to organizations that subsequently sued the EPA -- although presumably w ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Katie Alvord, author
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12 Feb 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. Snow is flying, the wind is howling, the temperature's dropping and I'm about to cycle an invigorating 11 miles into town. Once during a visit to our Congress member's office to urge support for alternatives to cars, I mentioned that I had snow tires on my bike. His ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics) |
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Katie Alvord, author
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11 Feb 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 11 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. It's Monday morning and I've just completed my regular commute: strolling from bedroom to office, a journey of 22 steps, in my slippers. I love wearing slippers to work. I'm a freelance writer and work at home, using telecommunications to access the rest of the world ... |
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| Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics) |
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The Secret Life of a Telecommuter
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Suzy Becker |
11 Feb 2002 |
Ha. |
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| Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics) |
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