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EV Rider		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
EV Rider As part of a pilot program by California to reduce pollution and increase the popularity of gas-free vehicles, Anaheim is offering free use of 10 electric cars in some of its lower-income neighborhoods. The golf cart-like cars are available to people who have a valid driver's license and a decent driving record. With a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour, the cars are ...
Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Iceland Iceland Baby		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Iceland Iceland Baby Iceland is gunning to be the world's first carbon-free economy. The country is in something of a bind, as it now has very low carbon-dioxide emissions and the Kyoto treaty on climate change gives it little room to expand its economy in a way that would increase its emissions. Already, 67 percent of Iceland's energy comes from emissions-free geothermal heat and hydroelectric dams. Du ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Virginia Slims		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Virginia Slims One of America's fastest-growing counties, Loudoun County in Virginia, voted last night to adopt rough development controls and try to keep two-thirds of the county as farmland. The vote by the county board of supervisors removed 83,000 potential homes from county plans and ended support for studying a proposed new highway to connect Dulles International Airport wi ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Virginia (all these topics)

Fright Train		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Fright Train Sometime this summer, the feds are planning to transport nuclear waste from power plants via train from New York to a U.S. Energy Department reservation in southeastern Idaho. Dubbing the shipment a "mobile Chernobyl," anti-nuke advocates plan to raise a ruckus when the freight train comes through. Although the shipment a ...
Topics: energy, Idaho, New York, nuclear power, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Gallons of Gasp		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gallons of Gasp A panel appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has drafted a report recommending that the U.S. require automakers to improve the fuel economy of new vehicles. The 13-member panel, made up mostly of engineers and consultants who have worked for auto and oil companies, contends that fuel economy for cars and SUVs could be raised by as much as eight to 11 miles per gallon over the next six to 1 ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Developer's Creed	Suzy Becker	16 Jul 2001	Ha.

Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

What Would Jesus Drive? Ministers help kick off new phase of anti-SUV campaign	Bill McKibben	05 Jun 2001	Main Dish
There are more scenic places for a demonstration -- the Lincoln Memorial, say, or the lawn of the Capitol. But the Lynnway, an endless stretch of dreary light industry and heavy commerce just north of Boston, was perfect for our purposes. Not because of the greyhound racing track, not because of the discount furniture outlets. Because of the auto dealers, crowded with shiny SUVs. Just marr ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, cars, consumerism, green living, placemaking, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

School Days, School Days, Dear Old Diesel Fuel Days	Suzy Becker	30 Apr 2001	Ha.

Topics: health, placemaking (all these topics)

California Condos Back from the Brink? Species to be bred in captivity and released back to the wild	Deborah Knight	01 Apr 2001	Main Dish
In the latest initiative by developers to go green, a consortium of builders has created the "Condo Restoration Fund." Condos, which once ranged freely over the California landscape, are now being displaced by red-legged frogs, pocket mice, giant kangaroo rats, and other ridiculous creatures, said Diggem Fast, the president of the fund. Can these condos be ...
Topics: California, endangered species, placemaking (all these topics)

They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot Pavement is replacing the world's croplands	Lester R. Brown	01 Mar 2001	Main Dish
As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Burning Rubber	Todd Hettenbach	13 Oct 2000	Counter Culture
6.5 million -- number of tires recalled this year by Bridgestone/Firestone 270 million -- number of scrap tires generated in the U.S. in 1998 500 million -- number of scrap tires currently in U.S. stockpiles 35 -- number of U.S. states that ban whole tires from landfills 59 -- number of tire fires in the U.S. between 1996 and 1998 14 million -- number of tires consumed in a 1990 tire fire in Hagersville, Ontario, the largest tire fire in history, whi ...
Topics: energy, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Pounding the Pavement	Todd Hettenbach	26 Sep 2000	Counter Culture
3 million -- number of acres of open space developed each year in the U.S. 40 -- percentage increase in acreage of developed land in the U.S. between 1982 and 1997 1891 -- year in which the first road was paved in the U.S. 2.4 million -- number of miles of paved public roads in the U.S. in 1997 23 -- percentage increase in miles of paved public roads in the U.S. from 1977 to 1997 83.9 million -- number of metric tons of cement produced in the ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

A New Class of SUV	Suzy Becker	22 Sep 2000	Ha.

Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Cabin Fever Development runs wild in the upper Midwest	Erik Ness	08 Sep 2000	Main Dish
In an arm-wrestling contest, you'd probably pick Paul Bunyan over John Lawlis. Bunyan, after all, wielded his mighty ax with mythic strength and endurance, leveling the great forests of the upper Midwest. John Lawlis merely works the phones, selling vacation lots in what's left of these woods. "I think Paul would definitely win," laughs Lawlis. Sign of the times? Photo: Robert Korth, UWEX. But it is Lawlis ...
Topics: placemaking, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Statue of Limitations	Suzy Becker	21 Jul 2000	Ha.

Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Fuel Speed Ahead How Ballard is leading the charge to spread fuel cells far and wide	Tom Koppel	30 Jun 2000	Arts and Minds
"Our long-term goal is very simple," said California Gov. Gray Davis (D) outside the state capitol in Sacramento in April 1999. "Zero emissions in the air. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Zip." A crowd had gathered to hear Davis announce a major new state initiative, and to see the latest non-polluting automobiles to be unveiled by DaimlerChrysler and Ford. Running on electrici ...
Topics: hydrogen, placemaking (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Cup-holders the Size of Rhode Island'		27 Jun 2000	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Cup-holders the Size of Rhode Island" 27 Jun 2000
Topics: placemaking (all these topics)

Wheels of Progress?	Suzy Becker	09 Jun 2000	Ha.

Topics: India, placemaking (all these topics)

Reinventing the Wheels How far can clean cars take us?	Jim Motavalli	19 May 2000	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future. Forward Drive By Jim Motavalli Sierra Club Books, 272 pages, 2000 I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained b ...
Topics: air pollution, books, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, green living, hybrids, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Zen and the Art of Fuel Efficiency	Donella H. Meadows	08 May 2000	Global Citizen
This column is not a Honda ad, though it will start off sounding like one. This is an ad for feedback. I've had a Honda Insight, a gas-electric hybrid car, for less than a month. It has taught me a whole new way of driving, thanks to feedback from its instrument panel. An Insight instrument panel could become your new best friend. An indicator flashes a string of orange lights when the nickel-hydride batteries kick in to hel ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Lean and Green A Colorado family welcomes the simple life	Lisa Jones	26 Apr 2000	Main Dish
Why would Dale Murphy, a senior geologist with Enserch Exploration, leave a $58,000-a-year job in Dallas and take his family to a remote town in Colorado where the employment opportunities range from sorting cherries to working a supermarket cash register? The Murphy family, home on the range. Photo: Lisa Jones. Sanity. He and his wife Sheryl didn't want to raise four-year-old Hayden and seven-year-old Ginger in ...
Topics: Colorado, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

The Green House Effect How to make your home an eco-friendly haven	Jenny Sorensen	07 Apr 2000	Arts and Minds
Last spring, I met with a real-estate agent and listened while she told me about the kind of house I should buy. A new house, she advised, with all new appliances and the latest innovations in wiring, plumbing, and heating -- maybe even a condo. My horrified expression stopped her mid-sentence. Actually, I explained dreamily, I'm looking for an older home with charm and quirky character. I want big w ...
Topics: books, consumerism, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

Lost at Sea	Suzy Becker	07 Apr 2000	Ha.

Topics: green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Yeah, But How Many Cup Holders Does It Have?		01 Apr 2000	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Take My Wetlands	Suzy Becker	31 Mar 2000	Ha.

Topics: placemaking, renewable energy, wetlands (all these topics)

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