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Styro-Tome On Styrofoam	Umbra Fisk	06 Feb 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I continue to avoid buying Styrofoam, but I don't really know why. In middle school, I remember being told not to chew on Styrofoam cups because the action of breaking the Styrofoam would deplete the ozone and ingesting it would make me ill. This information, given to me by the lunchroom woman, is all I seem to have on the material. What is it with Styrofoam? Why should we avoid it? Sincerely, Sundee Chicago, Ill. Dearest ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, ozone, waste (all these topics)

Grease Be With You Advice on converting to biodiesel	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I own a diesel VW Golf, which I bought thinking it was a better choice for the environment than a gasoline engine. Therefore, I was disappointed to read your message that diesel is probably a worse choice. However, you didn't talk at all about biodiesel. Can you give us a rundown on this fuel -- how to get it, how it may be beneficial, and what you might have to do to ensure your car can run on it safely? Thank ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, biofuels, cars, energy, food and agriculture, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Autodidactic On picking the right car	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In 1981, I bought my first car, a Honda Civic. It was a great car, and despite what certain congressional leaders say about car size and safety, an excellent vehicle for handling winter snow and ice in mountain driving in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The problem is that now, living in Pennsylvania, my husband and I and our three children are looking for a car that will be able to carry the five of us for the next 10 years wi ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Rocky Mountain High Tax Aspen, Colo., taxes its way to a healthier climate	Hal Clifford	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
Randy Udall charges more for a ton of carbon dioxide than anybody else in the world. Udall runs a unique, two-and-a-half-year-old program in Aspen and surrounding Pitkin County, Colo., that charges new homeowners up to $100,000 if they exceed the "energy budget" allotted to their property by the local building code. The money collected under the Renewable Energy Mitigation Program ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, Colorado, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The Big-Name Game Beltway green groups need to turn up the heat	Ross Gelbspan	31 Jul 2002	Soapbox
Inside the Beltway, the climate movement is comatose. During the Clinton-Gore years, while the U.S. dragged its feet in international climate negotiations, the major national environmental groups allowed themselves to be used by the administration. Seduced by the former vice president's rhetoric, the groups watched their issue disappear from the political arena when Al Gore sacrificed his convictions ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Washington DC (all these topics)

In Good Company Cutting emissions to raise profits	Amanda Griscom	31 Jul 2002	Powers That Be

Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Kyoto, U.S.A. Tackling climate change at the local level	Katherine Ellison	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
Sister Evelyn Mattern had two goals in mind as she stood vigil recently with a Protestant colleague in a gas mask, singing, "This Air is My Air!" at the North Carolina statehouse. Her short-term aim was to lend support to stricter regulations for the state's coal-fired power plants. Yet she also had a loftier, long-range objective, one increasingly shared by a wide array of activists: to transf ...
Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kyoto Protocol, local politics, politics (all these topics)

Battery Will Get You Nowhere		08 Dec 2000	Daily Grist
Battery Will Get You Nowhere California air quality regulators once hoped that battery-powered, zero-emission cars would lead the charge for cleaner air in the state, but today they are shifting their allegiance to more commercially viable cars that produce some emissions. In 1990, the California Air Resources Board mandated that 10 percent of all vehicles sold in the state by 2003 be pur ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Help Me, I'm Melting! Industry is talking about climate change. Why aren't the presidential candidates?	Ross Gelbspan	29 Sep 2000	Main Dish
Like the nine-foot-deep blanket of ice at the top of the world, America's denial of the climate crisis is melting. In hot water in the Antarctic. Photo: Michael Van Woert, NOAA. And like the North Pole, it is melting from the top down. Over the last year, in the wake of steady alarms from leaders of the insurance industry, growing numbers of oil and auto company ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Here Comes the Sun How the U.S. government could push solar power into the big time	Denis Hayes	08 May 2000	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair. The environmental movement has displayed remarkable strength since the first Earth Day in 1970. It has battled heroically to safeguard the world's health, diversity, and beauty, and it has been astonishingly successful. However, as the Earth's odometer rolls over into a new century, the Earth is facing a new threa ...
Topics: climate, energy, energy efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Bhopal -- or RuPaul	Ben White	02 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Friday marks the 15th anniversary of a very unhappy occasion. On Dec. 3, 1984, a Union Carbide industrial plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly cloud of the gas methyl isocyanate into the air, killing at least 6,500 people (and some say more) and injuring tens of thousands. Ever since, Union Carbide and Bhopal have been inextricably linked. But those who may not know a great deal about what happened in India won't find any enlightenment at Uni ...
Topics: air pollution, business, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Everything But the Carbon Sink		26 Jul 1999	Daily Grist
Everything But the Carbon Sink A new study throws doubt on a 1998 analysis that determined the plants and soils of the U.S. and southern Canada were absorbing as much carbon dioxide as the two societies emitted. For the study, which was published in the July 23 issue of the journal Science, researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts examined land-use changes in the U.S. from 1700 to the presen ...
Topics: climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Bird in the Hand Worth Two for Bush?	Ben White	02 Jun 1999	Muckraker
While you were smoothing on suntan lotion or stoking the barbecue this weekend, Texas state legislators were madly finishing up work before their midnight May 31 deadline. Gov. George W. Bush's tax cuts and education initiatives got most of the attention, but we kept our gaze trained on the environmental bills likely to come up in debate as "Dubya" leaves the friendly confines of Austin and hits the presidential campaign tra ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, George Bush, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, mining, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

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