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Mozam-piqued		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mozam-piqued Mozambique has decided to proceed with a $520 million plan to build a harbor and industrial free-trade zone on its pristine southern coast, a decision that has outraged environmentalists. The plan seems likely to put an end to efforts to establish a transnational conservation area stretching from St. Lucia in South Africa through Swaziland and into the Maputo Elephant ...
Topics: Africa, land stewardship, marine life, Mozambique, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Go East, Young Consumer		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go East, Young Consumer In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain came up, signaling the end of the Cold War, the fall of communism -- and a new era for the environment in Central and Eastern Europe. Popular belief holds that the curtain rose to reveal a bleak landscape of environmental degradation wrought by unchecked industrial activity. In many cases, that was true. On the other hand, the constraints of communis ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

A Real Earth Mother	Suzy Becker	06 May 2002	Ha.

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

The Truck Stops Here		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops Here Speaking of the blue-green alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups, plus the trucking industry, filed suit yesterday to prevent the U.S. government from allowing some 30,000 Mexican trucks onto American roads. On Friday, the Bush administration is scheduled to sign regulations that would allow Mexican trucks to cross the border for the first time in 20 years. The coalition contends ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Abandon Ships		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Abandon Ships About 15 percent of the world's nitrogen- and sulfur-based pollution is produced by ships -- some 30,000 of them worldwide -- yet the vessels are among the least controlled pollution sources on the planet. That wouldn't change much under rules proposed by the U.S. EPA yesterday. The new regulations, modeled after a five-year-old international accord that has been widely criticized as too lax, would re ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

On the Railroad to Nowhere?		10 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
On the Railroad to Nowhere? Europe has long set the standard for rail travel, with a system whose efficiency, extent, and affordability has been the envy of rail advocates in the United States. But now it seems that European transportation trends are in danger of imitating those in the U.S: In the last decade, the highway network in the European Union grew by about 25 percent, to over 31,000 miles, while the rail network shrank ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Mini Headroom		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: placemaking Mini Headroom Can a miniature car gain a foothold in America, land of the super-sized everything? That's what B.M.W. plans to find out: Last month, the company started selling the Mini Cooper, formerly the flagship vehicle of a British company, in large U.S. cities. So far, the car has done well -- you'd have to put your name on a waiting list if you wanted one -- but the jury's still out on whether it can compete against the ever-popular (and, it would seem, ever-gr ...
Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

City City Bang Bang		04 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

A Tale of Two Mayors The improbable story of how Bogota, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live	Lisa Jones	04 Apr 2002	Main Dish
"We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people," said a man in a speech last year. "Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. ... We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and pl ...
Topics: Colombia, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

What Fuels These Mortals Be		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
What Fuels These Mortals Be Surprise, surprise: The U.S. Department of Transportation decided yesterday not to increase fuel-efficiency requirements for sport utility vehicles and other light trucks for the model year 2004. The decision comes after the Senate voted last month against a sharp increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, instead directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini ...
Topics: Department of Transportation, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Dune Bugging		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Bugging Almost 50,000 acres of dunes in California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area would be re-opened to off-road vehicles (ORVs) under a Bureau of Land Management proposal. The area has been off-limits to the vehicles since November of 2000, when the BLM, ORV groups, and environmentalists negotiated a settlement that closed the area to protect endangered speci ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, California, outdoor recreation, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

Ford: Tight Turning Radius		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Ford: Tight Turning Radius Henry Ford might be proud, but enviros are disappointed: William Clay Ford, Jr., great-grandson of the automobile pioneer, used to be known as the greenest person in the auto industry. But since taking the reins of Ford Motor Company last October, Ford has muted -- and sometimes changed -- his tune. The man who once jokingly called his company's 19-foot-long Excursion the "F ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

London Smog		28 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
London Smog A smoggy day in London town? Mayor Ken Livingstone plans to change that: Beginning next year, motorists entering central London between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. will have to pony up five pounds ($7) per day. About 40,000 vehicles per hour enter central London, a figure officials hope will drop by 15 percent thanks to the "congestion tax." Critics say that before the tax is imposed, the ...
Topics: air pollution, London, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Katie Car Ick		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

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

Going Whole Hog for Conservation		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Going Whole Hog for Conservation In welcome news for environmentalists, the U.S. Senate approved a farm bill yesterday that would double spending for conservation programs to $22 billion over the next decade. If it becomes law, the farm bill -- which also includes provisions to clean up urban drinking water, protect forests from urban sprawl, and conserve wildlife habitat -- would ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, placemaking, population, wilderness (all these topics)

Sting Operation		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Sting Operation Okay, everyone knows you can't take so much as a nail clipper on an airplane these days -- but how about a scorpion? Last month, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors in Miami impounded a shipment of 600 of the critters, plus 2,000 reptiles and other invertebrates. That's a lot of crawly things, but the shipment was just one of untold others that are, well, f ...
Topics: Florida, globalization, placemaking, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

City City Ban Ban		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
City City Ban Ban And in related news from the Big Apple: The city's post-Sep. 11 restrictions on single-occupant vehicles entering Manhattan has led to 190,000 fewer people coming into the city by car every day, according to a study commissioned by business and labor leaders opposed to the ban. The study claims the restrictions could cost the city $1.5 billion in lost spending, tolls, and taxes over the course of the year; it further ...
Topics: New York, placemaking (all these topics)

The Secret Life of a Telecommuter	Suzy Becker	11 Feb 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids The 2002 Winter Olympics open tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and not everybody's thrilled about it. Environmentalists say developers took advantage of the games to permanently damage the pristine Rocky Mountain environment, even though protecting the natural world is now the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, deforestation, logging, outdoor recreation, placemaking, US Forest Service, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bada Bing!		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bada Bing! In a potentially significant breakthrough for the environmental justice movement, New Jersey has become the first state to propose environmental-equity regulations for companies looking to move into minority or low-income communities. The rules, which were drafted by the state Department of Environmental Protection, would feed companies' plans into a ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, New Jersey, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Something Wild		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, New York, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Low-carbon Riders		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Low-carbon Riders In a move that could have radical implications for the automobile industry, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would make it the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a step toward curbing global warming. Because about 10 percent of the nation's new cars are sold in California, legislation affecting emis ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, climate, ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Weeping and Railing		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Weeping and Railing Convinced that "potentially significant" environmental problems could be avoided, federal regulators yesterday approved the largest railroad construction project in recent history. The project, a $1.4 billion, 900-mile line linking Wyoming coal fields to the Mississippi River, was okayed after the Surface Transporta ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Italian Nice		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Italian Nice The president of northern Italy's Lombardy region, Roberto Formigoni, proposed on Sunday that only eco-friendly vehicles be sold in the region by as early as 2005. He hopes gas-electric hybrid vehicles and, later, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles can help eliminate the region's pollution woes. Smog levels in Lombardy have recently surged to five times the legally permitted amounts; the region's capi ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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