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Headline	Author	Published	Section
You Gotta Have Faith		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, health, population (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Garden State, Meet the Cement State		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Garden State, Meet the Cement State Bad news on the environmental justice front: Poor and minority residents of Camden, N.J., aren't having much luck with efforts to sue the state for allowing a cement factory to spew pollution in their neighborhood. The residents successfully convinced U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky that the siting of the plant was discriminatory, but Or ...
Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites Last month, Mexican officials learned their country is losing its forests at a rate of nearly 3 million acres a year, or nearly twice the clip previously thought; now, they're blaming the heavy deforestation on impoverished indigenous farmers in Chiapas, who slash and burn the jungle to scrape out their meager living. The long history of m ...
Topics: deforestation, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Bjorn Again On Bjorn Lomborg and population	Lester R. Brown	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Some years ago, well before many outside Denmark knew Bjorn Lomborg's name, a group of his fellow faculty members at the University of Aarhus took the unusual step of developing a website specifically to warn the scientific community and others about flaws in his work. Appalled by Lomborg's scientific pretensions and unfounded conclusions, these faculty members, including a former head of the Danish Academy of Sciences, a ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, population (all these topics)

Population Not Da Bomb		07 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: population Population Not Da Bomb The environmental outlook for our planet is bleak if we cannot control mushrooming birthrates, according to the United Nation's annual "State of the World Population" report, released today. The study predicts that world population could grow from 6.1 billion to as many as 10.9 billion people by mid-century, unless dramatic gains are made in women's education, health care, and access to birth control. All the projected growth would occ ...
Topics: population (all these topics)

Fairer Faucet		10 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fairer Faucet For the first time, construction of new housing developments in California will be contingent on water availability, under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Gray Davis (D). The new law prohibits cities and counties from approving housing projects of 500 or more units unless water agencies verify that there is sufficient water to serve the developments for at least 20 years, even in times of dr ...
Topics: California, politics, population, water pollution (all these topics)

Growth Me Out to the Max The state of the planet is grim. Should we give up hope?	Donella H. Meadows	20 Apr 2001	Global Citizen
Note: Donella Meadows died on 20 Feb. 2001. The following is excerpted from her story about writing The Limits to Growth in 1972. Limits was translated into 26 languages and sold more than 9 million copies. COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD COLLAPSE I was one of the team of people at MIT who wrote a book that created a worldwide burst of media foreboding. It began as a small report. Within a ...
Topics: green living, population (all these topics)

The Noble Citizen A personal appreciation of Grist contributor Donella Meadows	Robert Braille	01 Mar 2001	Soapbox
I was once speaking with Donella Meadows in her Dartmouth College office a few years ago, back when I taught with her in the environmental studies program. She was responsible for my appointment in environmental literature and writing and had become a mentor I could call on for advice at any time, no matter how busy she was. Donella Meadows. Suddenly, the telephone rang. It was a represen ...
Topics: education, green living, population, United States (all these topics)

Watership Down The world is running low on H2O	Lester R. Brown	19 Sep 2000	Soapbox
Droughts in the United States, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan have been big news this year -- and even more serious water shortages are emerging as the demand for water in many areas of the world simply outruns the supply. Water tables are now falling on every continent. Literally scores of countries are facing water shortages. All cracked up. By 2050, Ind We live in a water-challenged world, one that is becoming more so ...
Topics: agriculture, food, population, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

I've Got Good News, and I've Got Bad News	Donella H. Meadows	30 Jun 2000	Global Citizen
In the spirit of celebrating every success, but only to the extent the success deserves, I would like to celebrate something that is kind of hard to describe. The rate at which things are getting worse is slowing down. We're not going downhill as fast as we once were. The fever is high, but rising more slowly. We're still headed for the iceberg, but our speed is declining. The most striking example of this positive-ne ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, population, water pollution (all these topics)

There Goes the Neighborhood	Suzy Becker	24 Jan 2000	Ha.

Topics: placemaking, population, wildlife (all these topics)

Bigwigs Gaze into the Crystal Ball Or, where do a bunch of white American men (and one woman) think environmentalism is headed in the 21st century?		03 Jan 2000	Main Dish
Grist succumbs to millennial fever with this rendition of the classic what's-gonna-be-hot-in-the-new-year roundup. At a recent D.C. chat session organized by Environmental Media Services, enviro leaders shared their thoughts on where the movement is headed in the coming century, what big, scary issues are lurking on the horizon, and what ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Lester Brown, population, Washington DC (all these topics)

To Have and Have Not	Josh Sevin	01 Dec 1999	Counter Culture
5 percent of the world's human population resides in the U.S. 30 percent of the world's resources are used by the U.S. 8 motor vehicles are on the roads in China for every 1,000 Chinese citizens 750 motor vehicles are on the roads in the U.S. for every 1,000 U.S. citizens 15 kilograms of paper are consumed annually by each person in the developing world 333 kilograms of paper are consumed annually by each person in the U.S. 20 percent of the world's ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

Six	Josh Sevin	12 Oct 1999	Counter Culture
approximate number of species that go extinct per hour percent by which electricity demand is rising annually in China and South Asia percentage of the energy used in U.S. manufacturing that goes toward food processing and packaging percent reduction in the average household's water pollution if it converts from buying conventional produce and grains to buying organic factor by which global water consumption rose between 1900 and 1995 the world population, in billio ...
Topics: green living, population, water pollution (all these topics)

The Deep Six	Donella H. Meadows	12 Oct 1999	Global Citizen
Months ago, the United Nations decided to make an event out of the fact that the human population meter would soon click over another billion. They picked an arbitrary date -- October 12 -- and declared it the Day of 6 Billion. What kind of event should this be? A day of repentance? A celebration? In a world of soundbites, what's the right tone here? Six billion, oh woe? Six billion, yippee? Six billion. But who's counting? My guess is that " ...
Topics: green living, health, logging, marine life, population (all these topics)

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