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The Chuck Stops Here An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Mar 2005	Main Dish
Sen. Chuck Hagel. A possible GOP presidential contender in 2008, Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel has lately sprung to the public stage as one of the leading Republican voices on climate change. In mid-February, he introduced three bills designed to be economic jumper cables that would boost the development of clean-energy technologies -- one focusing on inte ...
Topics: climate, interview, legislation, politics, United States (all these topics)

Nobody Puts Brenda in a Corner! Brenda Way, artistic dance director, answers Grist's questions		28 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Brenda Way. What work do you do? I founded ODC (originally the Oberlin Dance Collective) 35 years ago as a multidimensional arts organization -- that is to say, not just for dance jocks. We moved to the Bay Area from Ohio and now own 33,000 square feet of dancing/teaching/performing space in San Francisco. My primary time is spent as artistic director of the 10-member resident contemporary ...
Topics: climate, green living, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Greenwalshing Bill Walsh, founder of the Healthy Building Network, answers readers' questions		25 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Bill Walsh, Healthy Building Network. How do you determine what should be classified as a "worst in class" building material? -- Name not provided A three-pronged analysis: First, is there a serious environmental problem associated with the material? Second, by focusing on that material, would we contribute to achieving the goals of the larger environmental-health movement? Thi ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, placemaking (all these topics)

It All Comes Out in the Walsh Bill Walsh, founder of the Healthy Building Network, answers Grist's questions		21 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Bill Walsh. What work do you do? I'm the founder and national coordinator of the Healthy Building Network. How does it relate to the environment? The Healthy Building Network is the only organization dedicated to linking green building strategies to the specific goals of the environmental-health movement. Our goal is to shift market demand in the building and construction indu ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, placemaking (all these topics)

A-Hundting We Will Go Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers readers' questions		18 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner. In your experience, what is the greatest obstacle to smart urban development? In other words, what is the biggest reason it's not being done in more places? -- Tommi Makila, Des Moines, Iowa Public policy and regulations -- national, state, and local. At all levels, the funding of roads and highways fuels sprawl. At the local level (and this is true fo ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Maathai on the Prize An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Feb 2005	Main Dish
If the leaders of America's environmental movement need a shot of adrenaline, they would do well to sit down with Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai is the now-legendary mother of the Green Belt Movement, responsible for mobilizing tens of thousands of women to plant a staggering 30 million trees across Kenya over the last three decades. Her grassroots ...
Topics: heroes, interview, Kenya (all these topics)

Hundting Season Karen Hundt, Chattanooga urban planner, answers Grist's questions		14 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Karen Hundt. What work do you do? I am the director of the Planning & Design Studio in Chattanooga, Tenn. We are a division of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, but the design studio focuses on downtown and riverfront redevelopment. How does it relate to the environment? The biggest environmental issue facing this country is the way we're building our cities -- suburban spr ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Tennessee (all these topics)

Babbling Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers readers' questions		04 Feb 2005	InterActivist
Richard Brooks, Greenpeace Canada. Are there alternatives to Kleenex that a corporation could switch to in volume? -- Auden Schendler, Aspen, Colo. There are many alternatives to Kleenex and other tissue products that come from ancient forests, including products by Cascades, Wood Wyant, and Marcal. These products are available across the U.S. and Canada (and many other countries as well), and are ma ...
Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

By Hook or By Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers Grist's questions		31 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Richard Brooks. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am a forest campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Greenpeace campaigns in 35 different countries using lobbying, science, public education, markets mobilization, and peaceful protest to bring about increased environmenta ...
Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

A Bouquet of Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers readers' questions		28 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico? -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Days of Wine and Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers Grist's questions		24 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Heavens to Betsy -- Come in, Betsy Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers readers' questions		21 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Betsy Rosenberg, host of EcoTalk. How can you, and others in the media, break down the myths perpetuated about climate change and inform the general public, our decision makers, and other journalists about the threat of global warming? -- Nadia Malley, Arlington, Va. Great question and of course one of our most pressing challenges at the moment from both a human and a media perspe ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics)

Radioactivist Betsy Rosenberg, green radio-show host, answers Grist's questions		18 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Betsy Rosenberg. What work do you do? I've gone from 20 years of general news reporting and anchoring for the CBS Radio network to creating an environmental radio minute to hosting and producing a one-hour nationally syndicated eco-awareness program called EcoTalk. I transitioned from journalist to activist a few years ago when, in the wake of 9/11, I decided that "saving the planet one sound bite at ...
Topics: green living, InterActivist, interview, parenting (all these topics)

Me Fred, You Jane Fred Thompson, CEO of Jane Goodall Institute, answers readers' questions		14 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Fred Thompson, Jane Goodall Institute. How do you convince someone who lives in the U.S. and has never seen a chimpanzee outside the zoo about the importance of saving natural habitat in a place they'll probably never see? -- Name not provided It's true many people don't "get it" and aren't moved by the conservation arguments that we find so compelling -- even the arguments that ap ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Death Wish An interview with authors of the controversial essay 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
An interview with authors of the controversial essay "The Death of Environmentalism" By Amanda Griscom Little 13 Jan 2005 Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus stirred up quite a fuss when they unveiled their essay "The Death of Environmentalism" last fall, declaring the environmental movement kaput and calling for a more visionary and inspiring progressive movement to take its place. In an interview with Grist, Shellenberger and Nordhaus talk about their ideas, ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

As Goodall as It Gets Fred Thompson, CEO of Jane Goodall Institute, answers Grist's questions		10 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Fred Thompson. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president and CEO of the Jane Goodall Institute. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Our mission is to inspire and empower people to take informed, compassionate action to make the world a better place for people, animals, and the environment. F ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

To Helvarg and Back David Helvarg, marine activist, answers readers' questions		07 Jan 2005	InterActivist
David Helvarg, Blue Frontier Campaign. What advice do you have for federal resource-agency scientists trying to do the right thing under this administration? -- Mike Kelly, McKinleyville, Calif. Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished. It's not that government researche ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans (all these topics)

Political Science An interview with Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists	Jennifer Weeks	05 Jan 2005	Main Dish
The Bush administration is gearing up to push for second-term priorities -- including an energy bill, power-plant emissions legislation, and amendments to the Endangered Species Act -- under a cloud of accusations that it has manipulated federal scientific research on these and other issues to support its agenda. These arguments have been voiced most prominently by the ...
Topics: interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

Come Helvarg and High Water David Helvarg, marine activist, answers Grist's questions		03 Jan 2005	InterActivist
David Helvarg. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president of Blue Frontier Campaign. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Blue Frontier works to strengthen America's ocean constituency by building unity among seaweed (marine grassroots) activists at the local, regional, and national levels by providin ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans (all these topics)

Dreamwork Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers readers' questions		17 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Kevin Doyle, The Environmental Careers Organization. Which environment-related fields do you see growing fastest right now? What type of jobs do you see declining in the future?&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp -- Name not provided, Nashville, Tenn. There are several answers to this question posted on the ECO website. If you go to our Career Tips section and click on the one for September 2004, you'll find detail ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

The Whole Foods Shebang An interview with John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods	Amanda Griscom Little	17 Dec 2004	Main Dish
John Mackey wants you to buy his organic squash. He's the Bill Gates of organic foods. John Mackey, founder and CEO of the Whole Foods empire, started his original health-food store, called Safer Way, in a garage in Austin, Texas, in 1978. Local farmers would drop off produce from junky old pickups, hippie bakers would supply nut loaves and 20-grain bran muffins. It was strictly veg ...
Topics: business, food, greenish companies, interview (all these topics)

Hire Learning Kevin Doyle, environmental-career guru, answers Grist's questions		13 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Kevin Doyle. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm one of two national program directors at The Environmental Careers Organization (authors of the new book The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference -- see below). At least, that's my current title. I've worked for ECO since 1984, and in that time I've been Pacific Northwest regional director, national general manager, director ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, green jobs, green living, greenish companies, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Hamburger Patty Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers readers' questions		10 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Patricia Lovera, Public Citizen. Scientifically, what is wrong with irradiated food? I haven't seen any studies indicating illness or unhealthy effects. The articles I did read indicated that some foods could be preserved without refrigeration safely and longer. -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. Concerns center around the potential health effects of eating chemical byproducts created in the process o ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

All You Need Is Lovera Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers Grist's questions		06 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Patricia Lovera With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am deputy director of the Energy and Environment Program at Public Citizen. We have campaigns on energy (fighting nuclear power and electricity deregulation), against the privatization of our water supplies, and on food safety (fighting food irradiation and other methods of industrialized food production that negatively aff ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Swimming With Parks John Emory Parks, international marine expert, answers readers' questions		03 Dec 2004	InterActivist
John Emory Parks of NOAA. What specific actions would you recommend for a family with four kids who really want to make a positive difference in their environment? -- Debbie Potts, Perry Hall, Md. Here are several minor things that we do at home with our kids, Debbie. While they are minor, they all really add up! I should mention that they are also things I did growing up. Plant and car ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oceans (all these topics)

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