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EV-ing Can't Wait		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

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

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Give Yourself a Wedgie On recycling beer bottles with lime wedges	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Most Honorable Umbra, Knower of All Green Things: Am I unwittingly hampering the recycling process by twisting that lime wedge into my bottle of beer? The dang things are tough to get back out! Humbly yours, Jill Brooks Dearest Jill, Please be assured that I thoroughly investigated your problem. I started with Personal Solutions. I have a pile of limes I keep down here to fend off scurvy, and I spent som ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Limelight		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

A Real Earth Mother	Suzy Becker	06 May 2002	Ha.

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

The Paper Chase On corporate paper recycling	Umbra Fisk	23 Apr 2002	Ask Umbra
I work for a large corporation that is very wasteful with paper. I am looking for information on whom I can complain to about this so that something will happen. They do not use recycled paper or require any recycling of paper. Beth Dearest Beth, Prepare yourself: The fate of reams of office paper is in your hands. You must be the defender of the discarded draft, the champion of the crumpled wad, the protector of the printer ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, education, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

I Believe in Yesterday!		23 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
I Believe in Yesterday! While President Bush and former Vice President Al Gore spent Earth Day talking up the environment and taking jabs at each other, how was the rest of the world celebrating the occasion? In Indonesia, environmentalists blocked traffic and planted trees; in Thailand, some 15,000 Buddhists prayed for the Earth; in the Philippines, cyclists filled streets in the capital city; and back in the U.S. of A., Susan Sara ...
Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Doo Process	Suzy Becker	11 Mar 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

I'm Too Sexy for My Trash		07 Mar 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Talkin' Trash		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Talkin' Trash What do you do with 11,000 tons of garbage per day? That's the problem -- well, one of the problems -- plaguing New York City, whose trash disposal system is becoming a political, logistical, and financial headache for the beleaguered metropolis. A $6 billion long-term garbage-management plan devised by the Giuliani administration is stalled and may fail entirely, and a s ...
Topics: green living, New York, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

I Believe in a Town Called 'Without Hope'		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, business, globalization, green living, Kenya, recycling (all these topics)

Retirement Party		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Retirement Party Utah Republican Jim Hansen, who has served 11 terms in the U.S. House, most recently as chair of the Resources Committee, announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection this year. The announcement came as a surprise to even some of his closest staff members -- and a welcome one to environmentalists. Hansen started off light green, proposing a recycling measure while se ...
Topics: green living, politics, recycling, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides Starbucks announced this week that it will pay an extra 10 cents per pound for coffee beans that are grown on environmentally and socially responsible farms. The announcement, which was made at a growers conference in Costa Rica, comes at a time when a world coffee surplus has depressed wholesale ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Conservation International, Costa Rica, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Patriot Games		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Patriot Games When America entered World War II, the folks at home reduced, reused, and recycled in the name of patriotism. Now, as we enter a new war, it's time to do the same, says David Hochschild, coordinator of San Francisco's successful solar power initiative, in an op-ed co-authored by his mother, well-known writer Arlie Hochschild. Because our leaders won't wean us off our dangerous oil habit, the Hochschilds argue, ...
Topics: energy, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Nema-toads		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Nema-toads A federal appeals court upheld a Vermont law last week requiring manufacturers to label items that contain mercury. The 1998 law, the first of its kind in the United States, was challenged by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association on behalf of companies that produce fluorescent light bulbs containing mercury. NEMA argued that labeling the products would be too expensive and that Vermont's sha ...
Topics: green living, recycling, toxics, Vermont (all these topics)

Put a Radioactive Fork in It		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Put a Radioactive Fork in It A proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive steel did not go over well with environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Minneapolis yesterday. The DOE is considering a plan to recycle slightly contaminated scrap metal from its research and weapons facilities. The recycled steel would then be used in consumer goods from snow shovels ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Bad Company		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Bad Company Commercial recycling is hit or miss in the U.S. -- in some cases, for example, companies assume that recycling is occurring, but their cleaning companies are actually mixing recycling with garbage and throwing everything out as trash. From 35 to 45 percent of waste produced in the U.S. in 1999 was commercial, according to the U.S. EPA. Unlike in Europe, however, t ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A New Resource for Tire Recyclers?	Suzy Becker	27 Aug 2001	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

A Snowblower's Chance in Hell	Suzy Becker	05 Feb 2001	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (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)

And You Thought Condoms Were Useful	Suzy Becker	04 Aug 2000	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

Wednesdays with Morrie	Suzy Becker	17 Mar 2000	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling (all these topics)

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