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Green U. On student activism	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I may be asking the wrong person, but I hope you can help out. I am a student at the University of North Carolina and my group, the Student Environmental Action Coalition, is undertaking an ambitious campaign to raise student fees by $4 per semester in order to bring renewable energy to our campus. While $4 doesn't sound like a lot, in the end it would amount to nearly $300,000 per year, which we hope to increase by corporate ma ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, campus activism, education, green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

You're in the Army Now		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
You're in the Army Now Environmentalists and the Pentagon have never been the best of friends -- in fact, the folks at the Department of Defense are currently trying to wiggle out of complying with as many environmental regulations as possible in the name of national security -- but it would seem that military leaders can think green when it suits them. The U.S. Army and General Mot ...
Topics: Department of Defense, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, US Army (all these topics)

A Towering Achievement		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
A Towering Achievement An Australian power company is planning to build the world's tallest structure, in the name of a global campaign to encourage renewable energy use. Energy company Environmission plans to construct a solar tower in the middle of the Australian outback that would soar 3,300 feet into the air, or more than twice as high as the world's tallest building, Toronto's Canadian National Tower. The str ...
Topics: Australia, green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

Silverado -- Why Don't We Come to Our Senses		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Silverado -- Why Don't We Come to Our Senses General Motors, the largest automaker in the world, announced today that it will sell a variety of gas-electric vehicles over the next four years, a move that could help push hybrids into the mainstream. The company will sell hybrid versions of cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs, thereby creating some competition for Honda and Toyota, currently the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

We Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
We Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden New Jersey may be the Garden State -- but can it be known as green in other ways as well? Gov. James McGreevey (D) thinks it can, and he's embarking on an ambitious plan to make the state a national leader in clean energy. Earlier this year, the state government agreed to purchase at least 12 percent of the electricity it consumes from renewable energy ventures. Last week, M ...
Topics: New Jersey, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

10,000? Maniacs!		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
10,000? Maniacs! After two decades of struggle, Pennsylvania has finally secured legislation requiring the state to design and implement a water-conservation strategy. The Water Resources Planning Act, signed into law this week by outgoing Gov. Mark Schweiker (R), is widely seen as a first step in determining the amount of water available in Pennsylvania, as well as establishing how watersheds can best be protected and how th ...
Topics: Pennsylvania, renewable energy (all these topics)

Water We Thinking?		12 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Water We Thinking? The U.S. has earned the dubious distinction of being the most wasteful user of water in the world, according to the first-ever Water Poverty Index. Developed by a team of British researchers, the index ranked 147 countries according to water resources, access, capacity, use, and environmental impact. The U.S., which has the highest per capita water use in the world, ranked 32nd overall, but last in efficien ...
Topics: green living, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Blow to the Solar Plexus		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
A Blow to the Solar Plexus Renewable energy use in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2001, according to a new report by the Department of Energy. Much of that decline stems from a drought that cut hydroelectric power generation by 23 percent, but the DOE's Energy Information Administration also found that in 2001, solar equipment was retired faster than it was replaced. The bulk of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, hydropower, Iran, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate In what could be the first significant step toward mass-marketing fuel-cell vehicles, Toyota and Honda put the world's first such cars on the road yesterday. The cars are being leased to the Japanese government and several public organizations in the U.S. -- at the whopping price of between $6,500 and $9,800 per month, meaning the dream of widesprea ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Japan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Pole Vault		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Pole Vault A plan to dramatically boost the use of biofuels in Poland has been approved by the country's lower house of parliament and is now being heard by its senate. The plan, which is backed by the nation's powerful farm lobby, would mandate that biofuels account for at least 4.5 percent of all domestic fuel sales beginning in 2003. That's well above the 2 percent minimum levels proposed ...
Topics: energy, European Union, food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
If You Drive Alone, You Drive With Saddam For some U.S. citizens, solar panels, wind turbines, and fuel-efficient cars have become the ultimate patriotic statement. With a war looming in the Middle East, green groups are framing the cause of energy conservation in terms of national security. They are issuing reports, creating websites, and hitting the airwaves with the message that true se ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, renewable energy, United States, wind power (all these topics)

A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Pardners' Tale		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (all these topics)

Subway to Heaven		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Subway to Heaven Congregations in 15 states are joining forces this Sunday to belt out the clean-energy gospel in the launch of a national "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign. Reverend Jim Ball, who directs the Evangelical Environmental Network, said: "Jesus wants his followers to drive the least-polluting, most efficient vehicle that truly meets the ...
Topics: Evangelical Environmental Network, placemaking, religion and spirituality, renewable energy (all these topics)

Turning the Tide		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Turning the Tide The world's most northerly town, will soon be the first to take advantage of ocean tides to create electricity with a sub-sea power station. Similar tidal projects are also underway in Australia and Britain, but none has begun selling power. Later this month or early in December, tidal currents on the seabed near Kvalsund, at the Arctic tip of Norway, will begin churning the fish-friendly blades of a windm ...
Topics: Norway, oceans, renewable energy (all these topics)

Apollo 18		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Apollo 18 To meet energy demands without escalating the problem of global warming, humankind must embark on a research effort as grand in scale as the Apollo project to put a man on the moon, say scientists in a study published today in the journal Science. The 18 researchers -- coming from government, universities, and even such traditional climate change naysayers as ExxonMobil -- ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sulfuring Succotash		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sulfuring Succotash Refiners should have no problem producing nearly sulfur-free diesel by 2006, according to a report released yesterday by an advisory panel to the U.S. EPA. The panel was convened last year by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman to assess possible technological barriers to complying with a clean diesel rule issued in the final weeks of the Clinton admi ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Yukon Take Your SUV and Shove It		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Yukon Take Your SUV and Shove It Despite increasing awareness of alternative-fuel technologies and growing concern over U.S. dependence on foreign oil, the fuel economy of American cars is only getting worse. Statistics released today by the U.S. EPA show that the average fuel economy of the new fleet of cars for 2003 is 6 percent lower than it was 15 years ago. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Arkansas of the Covenant		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Arkansas of the Covenant Arkansas is poised to consider an innovative plan to create an "alternative fuels" tax on electricity and gas users in the state. Under the plan, which state Rep. Herschel Cleveland (D) said yesterday that he would introduce to the state assembly early next year, residents would be charged a 25-cent tax on each of their monthly electric and gas bills, while commercial and i ...
Topics: Arkansas, business, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

High-drogen		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
High-drogen The European Union is homing in on hydrogen as a way to meet its ambitious goals of generating 22 percent of its electricity and 12 percent of all energy from renewables by 2010. Energy independence is increasingly urgent for Europe, which imports a whopping 70 percent of its oil and gas from foreign sources, including the Middle East and Russia. Last week, the European Commission (the E.U. ...
Topics: European Commission, European Union, renewable energy (all these topics)

Billions and Billions Swerved		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Billions and Billions Swerved It's been 13 years since the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, and eight years since a jury awarded $5 billion in punitive damages against the company -- and three days since a federal judge began hearing arguments that the award was inappropriate. After the 1994 case, Exxon appealed the award to the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oh My Cod!		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Oh My Cod! Cape Wind Associates has been given the green light on a project to build a data-collection tower that could lead to the largest renewable-energy plant in the United States -- 170 windmills off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. The collection tower, opposed by locals for its possible harm to tourism and the environment, will collect information on air and water turbulence, the direction and veloci ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

City of Angels		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
City of Angels The famously smog-choked city of Los Angeles will be home to the first zero-emission fuel-cell cars in the U.S., according to an announcement made yesterday by Mayor James Hahn (D). By the end of 2002, Honda Motor Company will lease five FCX hydrogen-powered cars to L.A., which will loan them to city employees for commuting. The car seats four people, has a ra ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Down on the Farm		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

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