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The Bus Stops Here		28 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Bus Stops Here India's Supreme Court today postponed a Sunday deadline for all buses in Delhi to convert from diesel fuel to compressed natural gas, saying that commuters would be inconvenienced if diesel buses were taken off the road because the city has done little to comply with a court order to improve air quality. About 9,000 of the 12,000 municipal buses in Delhi still run on diesel. The court gave the ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, India, placemaking (all these topics)

Lightweight Reading		25 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: placemaking Lightweight Reading Lightweight, fuel-efficient cars do just fine in Rocky Mountain winters, say some Grist readers, disagreeing with a recent letter to the editor that backed SUVs as the practical mode of transportation during snow season. Others agree that SUVs are a big help, and they applaud a push by some automakers to manufacture gas-electric hybrid SUVs. Read about and join the debate on the Grist Magazine website.
Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Montezuma's Revenge		24 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Montezuma's Revenge Mexico City, known the world 'round for its air pollution, will soon unveil a new 10-year plan to tackle the problem. The plan by the Metropolitan Environmental Commission will aim to reduce ozone and particulate levels in the air by taking such steps as retiring old trucks, limiting cargo circulation hours, using more natural gas in public transportation, and giving taxi drivers incentives to buy new ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking (all these topics)

They Could Car Less		24 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
They Could Car Less Seattle is finding sweet success with an experimental program that encourages couples to give up their extra vehicle. After a recent nine-week pilot program, six of 23 couples were thinking of selling their extra car, two were trying to sell it, and two had already sold it. The couples were paid $25 for the first three weeks of the program, during which they continued to use their extra car and k ...
Topics: cars, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Celling Like Hotcakes		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Celling Like Hotcakes Canadian company Ballard Power Systems announced yesterday that it had signed a three-year, $22 million deal to provide Ford with fuel cells for a line of vehicles the automaker hopes to launch by 2004. Ballard is providing fuel-cell technology to DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Nissan, and Volkswagen, among others. General Motors expects to have a fuel cell-powe ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Songbird Populations Drop in the U.S.		12 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Songbird Populations Drop in the U.S. For each species of songbird whose population is on the rise in the U.S., two species are in decline, says Jeff Wells of the National Audubon Society. Of the 116 species whose populations have fluctuated since 1966, 76 have decreased significantly. Urban sprawl, and all that comes along with it (farmland and forest loss, more roads, etc.), is one of the big contributors to the loss in numbers. The ...
Topics: placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Bay City Rollers		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Bay City Rollers Hybrid cars are all the rage in the San Francisco Bay area. About one in five hybrids sold in the U.S. has been purchased in the Bay area, and the average waiting time to buy a Toyota Prius or Honda Insight is five months at local dealers. Drivers say heads turn as their cars cruise by; some folks even talk of the sex appeal of the vehicles. In related news, across the U.S. ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics)

Nay-bors		07 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
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Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Slim Shady		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Slim Shady Tree cover has diminished significantly in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas over the last 25 years, as roads, parking lots, and more buildings have taken root, according to a study released yesterday by American Forests. The enviro group says the loss is a shame -- because trees not only look swell, but they also provide financial benefits to cities. For example, American Forests says that a well-shaded building costs between 20 ...
Topics: placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Oregon Trailblazers		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Oregon Trailblazers When it comes to sustainability, Oregon is No. 1, says the San Francisco-based Resource Renewal Institute. The group ranked states on transit spending, open-space protection, recycling, and pollution prevention, among other things. New Jersey (shocking!) and Minnesota came in second and third, respectively. The institute's Randy Solomon said Oregon took top honors be ...
Topics: green living, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, placemaking, Portland (all these topics)

Neighborhood Watch The people next door can help you think green	Elizabeth Sawin	06 Sep 2001	Global Citizen
Everywhere I have lived, I have had neighbors, sometimes in houses just 15 or 20 feet away. Always I've had a garden and woodpile, sometimes bees, chickens, and fruit trees. In each place I have lived, I have given the garden a lot of my love and care, the lawn and shrubs a bit less. Everywhere I have lived there have been occasional questions, comments, and complaints from neighbors. "What's ...
Topics: green living, placemaking (all these topics)

A Civic Action		05 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
A Civic Action Honda unveiled a gas-electric hybrid Civic yesterday that the automaker says gets more than 68 miles per gallon, about 20 miles more than current models of gas-powered Civics. The new car will go on sale in Japan this fall and next spring in the U.S. Honda also said it would put a fuel-cell car on the market by 2003. straight to the source: Detroit News, Associated Press, 04 Sep 2001 catch i ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Victor Victorious		31 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Victor Victorious Mexico's environmental minister, Victor Lichtinger, is trying to slow down sprawl by actually enforcing environmental laws on the books. For example, he has closed or suspended 19 hotel and condo developments, including a 1,400-room complex that would have been built alongside a federally protected sea turtle sanctuary in Cancun. Lichtinger said his moves were meant to be a "signal to entrepreneurs and ...
Topics: business, Mexico, placemaking (all these topics)

Fly the Friendly Skies?		30 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, placemaking (all these topics)

Fly the Friendly Skies?	Todd Hettenbach	29 Aug 2001	Counter Culture
350 million -- number of pounds of smog-producing chemicals (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) released by planes landing and taking off from U.S. airports in 1993 200 million to 600 million -- number of gallons of wastewater created each year from airplane deicing 219 -- number of volatile organic chemicals found in the air around Chicago's O'Hare Airport 5.6 -- number of miles a passenger could travel in an intercity bus usin ...
Topics: ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dodge Bawl		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Dodge Bawl Earlier this year, U.S. environmental groups and automakers met with congressional members to back a tax credit for fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Now enviros are saying the auto industry has violated the spirit of the agreement by pushing for tax credits for hybrid SUVs with low mileage ratings. Under a House bill, for example, a hybr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sonic Bust		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Sonic Bust The emissions from Boeing's new high-speed plane, the Sonic Cruiser, may pose a direct threat to the ozone layer. Two years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 1,000 supersonic aircraft flying in the stratosphere would thin the ozone layer by about 1 percent a year. Boeing expects to sell, gulp, several thousand of the new planes. Cambridge ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, ozone, placemaking, United Nations (all these topics)

Footloose and Fancy Fleet		24 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Footloose and Fancy Fleet In a decision that could affect air pollution policy nationwide, a federal judge ruled yesterday that California officials can order public agencies to buy cleaner vehicles. Two industry associations challenged a rule by the South Coast Air Quality Management District that requires agencies to purchase low-emission or alternative-fuel cars, buses, and trucks, instead of diesel-powered vehicl ...
Topics: air pollution, California, placemaking (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Don't Commute		22 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot, Don't Commute The U.S. Transportation Department launched a new campaign yesterday to reduce pollution and encourage telecommuting by offering smog-emissions credits to companies that get more employees to work from home. Under a two-year pilot program, businesses that earn the credits will be able to swap them for air-quality requirements or sell them to other companie ...
Topics: business, Department of Transportation, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bahn Stormer		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bahn Stormer German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kvetched this week that taking steps to protect the environment was causing the cost of highway construction to soar. "I don't have anything against frogs," he said as he inspected a just-completed segment of a long-delayed highway, "but the expenditures we make for protecting the environment while building roads are enormous." Environmentalists ...
Topics: Germany, placemaking, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Humpty Dumpty Sat on the Great Wall		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Humpty Dumpty Sat on the Great Wall Claims by China that it has significantly reduced its greenhouse gas emissions may be a bunch of hooey. A Japanese scientist funded by the World Bank found that coal production hasn't gone down nearly as much as represented by China. Other researchers assert that oil consumption is increasing in the country at a faster clip than reported. Although vehicle traffic in Chinese cities has been dou ...
Topics: China, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Oh Baby, Baby, It's Dry World		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: placemaking Oh Baby, Baby, It's Dry World Some 450 million people in the world are now confronting water-shortage problems. That's grim enough -- but experts meeting this week in Stockholm to discuss water scarcity say the number could grow to 2.7 billion within 25 years. North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and parts of India and China, as well as areas in southern Europe, are most hurt by current shortages. Parts of the U.S., however, aren't far behind. Warmer temperatures ...
Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Un-Happy Meal A review of Fast Food Nation	Elizabeth Grossman	10 Aug 2001	Arts and Minds
Given my distaste for fast food and the general knowledge of its detrimental effect on the American diet, I didn't expect to find any revelations in Fast Food Nation. But journalist Eric Schlosser's thoroughly researched and well-written probe into the industry that has transformed American roadsides, eating patterns, and agriculture was actually an eye-opener. Fast Food Nation By Eric Schlosser Houghton Mifflin Co., ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Driving the Numbers Up		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Driving the Numbers Up The percentage of households in the U.S. with three or more cars (18.3 percent) is nearly double the percentage of households with no cars (9.3 percent), and more than 76 percent of Americans say they drive to work alone, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Only 11 percent of people carpool, and merely 5 percent use public transportation to get to work. Telecommuting as a high-tech solution to the problems ...
Topics: placemaking, United States (all these topics)

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