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Hey Rocky!
A day with SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson, in photos |
Kate Sheppard |
07 Feb 2007 |
Gristmill |
| While down in the good state of Utah several weeks ago, I got to spend some time with Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, featured subject of a Dave Roberts Q&A published yesterday. The good mayor had just days before given his state of the city address, the final of his two-term run as mayor of a city better-known for Mormons than for the range of forward-thinking policies in place there. In his address, the mayor praised the city's progress in cutting energy use ... |
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| Topics: energy, local politics, politics, Utah (all these topics) |
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School of Rocky
An interview with Salt Lake City mayor and green innovator Rocky Anderson |
David Roberts |
06 Feb 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Rocky Anderson shows off the solar panels on his roof. Photo: Kate Sheppard As mayor of his city, Rocky Anderson has been unapologetically liberal. He's pushed through aggressive sustainability measures and energetically championed affirmative action, gay rights, and reform of the penalty-heavy justice system. He's also been a fierce and vocal critic of the Bush administration i ... |
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| Topics: interview, local politics, politics, Utah (all these topics) |
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Rocky Anderson
The Salt Lake City mayor is doing amazing green things |
David Roberts |
03 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I just got done with a long and interesting conversation with Salt Lake City's hard-charging mayor, Rocky Anderson. If you haven't been following the guy, check out this remarkable article in The Nation. Prepare to have your accustomed-to-bad-news socks knocked off. Since his election in 1999, he's implemented a comprehensive plan to green the city and meet Kyoto emissions targets (actually, SLC has already far exceeded the targets, six years ahead of schedule). He ... |
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| Topics: local politics, politics, Utah (all these topics) |
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Mapled Crusaders
Community forests help revitalize New England towns |
Wayne Curtis |
23 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Get Richard or Die Tryin'
Enviros plot to beat Pombo in November |
Amanda Griscom Little |
06 Jan 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Just a week into this election year and already environmental strategists are up to their elbows in plots to snatch Congress from the grip of anti-environment GOP leaders and turn it over to a conservation-minded majority. Leaders of green groups including the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife are hatching plans to help political allies who face tough battles this coming November, includ ... |
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| Topics: California, elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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The Revolution Will Be Localized
Sundance getaway converts mayors into climate activists |
Amanda Griscom Little |
14 Jul 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Salt Lake City played host to mayors getting up to speed on climate issues. City leaders from around the U.S. were treated to a rare bird's-eye view of the environment earlier this week at the Sundance Summit, a three-day mayors' retreat on climate change hosted by Robert Redford in Salt Lake City and at his 6,000-acre resort nestled beneath Utah's Mount Timpanogos, near ... |
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| Topics: Bill Richardson, climate, green living, local politics, Muckraker, politics, Robert Redford (all these topics) |
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Go, West, Young Man
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27 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Go, West, Young Man Jason West, a 26-year-old member of the Green Party, is shaking things up in New Paltz, N.Y., where he was elected mayor earlier this month -- an outcome that has the local political establishment in a tizzy. West ran on an ambitious environmental platform that rallied support from many students at the State University of New York at New ... |
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| Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, local politics, New York, news, politics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kyoto Protocol, local politics, politics (all these topics) |
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Bottoms Up or Tops Down?
Should locals be more involved in public lands decisions? |
Rocky Barker |
17 Jan 2001 |
Soapbox |
| Roadless and fancy-free. Photo: U.S. Forest Service. As the Clinton administration rushes to complete its lands legacy agenda in the American West, two methods of resolving public land issues have clashed head-on. The first is embodied in President Clinton's move earlier this month to protect 58.5 million acres of roadless national forest -- a quick, top-down exercise of executive po ... |
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| Topics: local politics, national forests, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Greens Mourn Brown
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Ben White |
23 Jul 1999 |
Muckraker |
| Americans have been transfixed these last few days by the passing of a dazzling cultural icon, son of one of the most compelling -- and tragic -- political figures of the 20th century. A Green Brown Far less remarked upon has been the death last week of California Rep. George Brown (D), one of the environmental movement's "greatest champions," in the words of the Sierra Club. Brown spent much of his time during 18 terms in the House pressing ... |
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| Topics: California, elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Sierra Club Leaping into Political Ring?
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Ben White |
09 Jun 1999 |
Muckraker |
| Latest buzz on the streets of San Francisco is the nascent mayoral candidacy of enviro wunderkind Adam Werbach, who at the ripe old age of 26 is already an ex-president of the Sierra Club. We tracked Werbach down at the production company he runs in the Bay Area to find out if he is serious about taking on Democratic legend Willie Brown, whose job approval ratings of late are deep in the cellar. Werbach, who says he won't make ... |
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| Topics: elections, local politics, Muckraker, politics, San Francisco, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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