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Solar, Without Flair		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Solar, Without Flair President Bush's proposed budget for the government's 2004 fiscal year doesn't contain much good news for renewable energy advocates: Total research funding for the Energy Department's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would increase just 0.1 percent. Last summer, though, the feds apparently had enough money to purchase a solar-energy system to heat the pres ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bill Clinton Gathers No Moss		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Bill Clinton Gathers No Moss Former President Bill Clinton will take to the stage with the Rolling Stones this Thursday at an L.A. concert aimed at raising awareness about the looming problem of climate change. Clinton won't be playing the sax, but he will be blowing his metaphorical horn in a speech about the need to tackle global warming, says the Natural Resources Defense Council, organizer of the gig. The show will ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, green living (all these topics)

Catalog of Thrills	Suzy Becker	03 Feb 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

L.A. Sob Story		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
L.A. Sob Story Los Angeles gets plenty of sunshine, but the city government has dropped the ball on boosting solar power and other clean-energy sources. Almost four years after the launch of a $40 million initiative meant to shift the city toward renewable power sources, the L.A. Department of Power and Water has increased the amount of clean energy it produces by less than half a percentage point, an ...
Topics: energy, green living, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, education, green living, toxics (all these topics)

Sweet Carolina		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Carolina For the first time, residents of North Carolina will be able to buy their electricity from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biomass. Under "NC Greenpower," a new plan approved by the state earlier this week, industrial electricity customers can choose to pay about 2.5 extra cents per kilowatt hour for green power; residential consumers would pay roughly ...
Topics: energy, green living, North Carolina, renewable energy, wind power (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)

Bottlestar Galactica		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Bottlestar Galactica If Michigan environmentalists get their way, the state will dramatically expand its bottle law to cover 750 million additional beverage containers per year, including juice, water, and tea bottles that currently wind up as litter or in landfills. The state's 1976 bottle law, which quickly cleaned up roadside litter, is both popular and successful. Every ...
Topics: business, green living, Michigan, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Windy Cities		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Windy Cities Wind power is usually generated in vast, open spaces -- mountaintops, prairies, or offshore in shallow waters. But the Netherlands is taking wind power to new heights, literally: the rooftops of buildings in metropolitan areas. With light, quiet, efficient designs that often blend into the surrounding architecture, these urban windmills are built to take advantage of the severe t ...
Topics: energy, European Union, green living, placemaking, wind power (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (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)

Wind Bags		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wind Bags The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to technological improvements. Under the revised plan, Cape Wind Associates would build 130 rather than 170 wind turbines over 24 rather than 28 square miles of ocean. The resulting project would still p ...
Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, wind power (all these topics)

The Strong and Short of It		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Strong and Short of It In a sign of increasing international concern about the ecological challenges posed by China, one of the world's most prominent greens has moved to Beijing and set up shop as an environmental consultant. For more than three decades, Canadian Maurice Strong has been a major player in global diplomacy, environmental and otherwise; earlier ...
Topics: Asia, business, China, green living, news, nuclear power, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Green U. On student activism	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I may be asking the wrong person, but I hope you can help out. I am a student at the University of North Carolina and my group, the Student Environmental Action Coalition, is undertaking an ambitious campaign to raise student fees by $4 per semester in order to bring renewable energy to our campus. While $4 doesn't sound like a lot, in the end it would amount to nearly $300,000 per year, which we hope to increase by corporate ma ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, campus activism, education, green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Illumin-Naughty On mercury in compact fluorescent lights	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been enthusiastically switching our light bulbs to cooler compact fluorescents. Is this a bad thing due to the mercury they contain? Lisa Smithville, Texas Dearest Lisa, Thanks for your question, as it will allow me to keep shedding light on the compact fluoresc ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, mercury, toxics (all these topics)

Always a Big Turn-off On turning off fluorescent lights	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, You'd be so proud of us! We just had an hour-long meeting about conservation and environmentalism here in our office. In the course of our discussion, the topic of leaving the lights on came up. I am a religious light-switcher, meaning I turn lights off in the bathroom or wherever they're left on. One of my colleagues was under the impression that it takes more energy to turn fluorescent lights on a ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

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)

Thank God		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Thank God Environmentalism is getting a big boost from religious communities that increasingly see protecting the Earth as central to their theology, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report released late last week, Worldwatch found that religious organizations from all corners of the globe are urging their congregations to sav ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, green living, Indonesia, rainforests, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Bjorn Loser		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Bjorn Loser In 2001, Danish author Bjorn Lomborg rocketed into the spotlight with the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, which claimed to debunk virtually all environmental concerns, from global warming to species extinction, and sought to assure the public that there was nothing much to worry about, ecologically speaking. Now, a division of the Danish Research Agency has condemned Lomborg for "scie ...
Topics: education, European Union, green living (all these topics)

Not Buying It		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, education, green living (all these topics)

Not Buying It It's time Americans hit the brakes on consumption	Eric Brown	08 Jan 2003	Soapbox
Every year, long before the last of the Halloween candy has been eaten, the drumbeat of holiday consumerism ushers in a long, wasteful, expensive march to New Year's. Now Holiday 2002 is finally over, and apparently it's just as well, because it turns out the season was a "failure." This information comes not from our friends, our family, or even our clergy, but from CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, ...
Topics: business, green living, holiday, United States (all these topics)

Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Water Conservation in the New Year	Suzy Becker	06 Jan 2003	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

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