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A New Day Lawning On lawn and garden pesticides	Umbra Fisk	30 Jul 2002	Ask Umbra
Dearest Umbra, Goddess of Green Knowledge, A few years ago, a farmer friend of mine argued that more pesticides and chemical fertilizers are applied to suburban lawns and gardens than are used in commercial agriculture. I can see how this might be the case, given the massive size of the lawn and garden chemical industry, but I haven't been able to verify this information. Can you help? Ed Hunt Dearest Ed, Supplicant, The l ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, gardening, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Clothes Call On clothing	Umbra Fisk	30 Jul 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My nephew says that new clothes and other apparel that come from foreign countries are treated with toxic chemicals to avoid various types of fungal or insect contamination, and upon arriving at the loading dock of your favorite wanker-mart, they are ripe to toxify the air, your skin, your eyes. He worked on such a dock and had to wear a respirator and other protective devices to avoid dangerous levels of exposure to the stuff. So I ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fashion, green living, toxics (all these topics)

Better, By Design		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Better, By Design A review of Cradle to Cradle	Hal Clifford	25 Jul 2002	Arts and Minds
The idea that growth can be good is anathema to most environmentalists. Yet that's exactly the argument made by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle. Take a look at nature, the pair says, and you'll see that growth is not only good, but necessary -- that nature's very abundance is what environmentalists (and the rest of us) depend on and celebrate. The key is the right kind of growth -- and the key ...
Topics: green living (all these topics)

Bird Slaw		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bird Slaw Compared to traditional energy sources (coal, oil, natural gas), wind energy seems like an environmentalist's dream come true: It doesn't pollute the air, land, or water, and it's infinitely renewable. Indeed, wind energy has a reputation as being one of the greenest energy sources out there. So why are environmentalists trying to put a stop to the constr ...
Topics: energy, green living, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, Sierra Club, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

If It's Monday, This Must Be Mars	Suzy Becker	22 Jul 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living (all these topics)

Thinking Inside the Box		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Thinking Inside the Box Packaging for food products is a $12 billion industry dominated by variations on paper and plastic foam products. For 10 years, the company EarthShell has been trying to green the industry and get a lucrative piece of the pie. In place of Styrofoam containers or cardboard egg cartons, EarthShell sells products made of a mixture of limestone, sand, and starch from plants like corn and potatoes. The product ...
Topics: green living, United States (all these topics)

Gross Out		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Gross Out If Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) has his way, a part of his state's share of the national tobacco settlement will be used to fund alternative energy projects. On Wednesday, Vilsack suggested spending $50 million of the $438 million settlement to help cities in Iowa build renewable energy plants such as wind turbines. The governor said his goal was to develop statewide energy resources, reduc ...
Topics: energy, green living, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Beer Goggles		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Re-tired		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Re-tired In other news about trash, the U.S. is making significant strides in the reuse and recycling of rubber tires. Last year, Americans got rid of about 281 million tires -- some 5.7 million tons worth. In 1990, just one out of every 10 discarded tires was reused; now, that number has risen to nearly eight in 10. Some are burned to generate electricity; some are mixed with asphalt to pave roads; some are made int ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

The Kingsolver and I		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
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The Kingsolver and I A review of Small Wonder	Jonna Higgins-Freese	16 Jul 2002	Arts and Minds
Several friends of mine, all of them environmentalists, have told me they picked up Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's most recent collection of essays, but speedily put it down because the book just didn't pull them in. At first, I had the same reaction. And then I realized: small wonder. This book wasn't written for environmentalists. Yet because of Kingsolver's fame and her ability to talk about complex issues i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Teaching Our Children Well		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Teaching Our Children Well The three Rs could soon include "renewable" if Massachusetts has its way. Concerned about rising energy costs and student health, the state is offering financial incentives to districts to build environmentally friendly, health-conscious "green schools." Through a partnership with the Renewable Energy Trust, districts are being encouraged to make use of technologi ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, renewable energy (all these topics)

EV-ing Can't Wait		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (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)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Give Yourself a Wedgie On recycling beer bottles with lime wedges	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Most Honorable Umbra, Knower of All Green Things: Am I unwittingly hampering the recycling process by twisting that lime wedge into my bottle of beer? The dang things are tough to get back out! Humbly yours, Jill Brooks Dearest Jill, Please be assured that I thoroughly investigated your problem. I started with Personal Solutions. I have a pile of limes I keep down here to fend off scurvy, and I spent som ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Limelight		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

The New New Economy It's time to change the way economists think about ecology	Lester R. Brown	13 Jun 2002	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. You can download the book for free or order a hard copy from the Earth Policy Institute. In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres," in which he challenged the view that the sun revolved around the Earth, arguing instead that the Earth revolved ...
Topics: business, green living (all these topics)

Environmental Quality Is Job One		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Environmental Quality Is Job One A new TV and radio advertising campaign by the Sierra Club calls on the automobile industry to cut its oil use as an act of patriotism -- and singles out Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr., to lead the way. The great-grandson of Henry Ford, William Ford used to be seen as an auto industry iconoclast, conversant on climate change and critical of profligate oi ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, Sierra Club, United States (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)

Getting the Sack Shouldering the burden of our environmental impact	Elizabeth Sawin	10 Jun 2002	Global Citizen
Consider this: Friends of mine tell me that their daughter will only eat meat if she knows the name of the animal that died to produce it. She'll eat the pork roast from pigs grown on our farm -- but not the anonymous bacon offered up in the college dining hall. Adherence to this one simple guideline ensures that she has the kind of environmental and health information that isn't always easy to com ...
Topics: green living (all these topics)

Car Talk On hybrid cars	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, hi, With Honda having just released its gas-electric hybrid Civic in the U.S., many enviros are scrambling to buy one. But one question that hasn't been answered to my knowledge is whether the total amount of energy, pollution, mining, etc. involved in making a new car -- even a hybrid -- constitutes a greater overall environmental impact than the added emissions and fossil-fuel consumption of a huge old second-hand clunker that would cost ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Just Bag It On grocery bags	Umbra Fisk	04 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, At the grocery store, when they ask "Paper or plastic?" (and you have left your eco-friendly organic cotton tote bag at home), which is the lesser of two evils as far as total pounds of pollutants per bag (including solid waste, hazardous waste, and air and water pollution), and as far as ecological damage from raw material extraction and processing? Anna Dearest Anna, I am beginning to believe that true national environ ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, waste (all these topics)

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