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L.A. Sob Story		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
L.A. Sob Story Los Angeles gets plenty of sunshine, but the city government has dropped the ball on boosting solar power and other clean-energy sources. Almost four years after the launch of a $40 million initiative meant to shift the city toward renewable power sources, the L.A. Department of Power and Water has increased the amount of clean energy it produces by less than half a percentage point, an ...
Topics: energy, green living, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Haden Go Seek		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Haden Go Seek In a blow to environmentalists, a federal appeals court has overturned a ruling preventing the U.S. government from issuing permits to mountaintop-mining operations. The operations access coal seams by shearing off huge slabs of mountains; the increasingly common process has resulted in tons of rock and dirt being dumped into valleys and streams. Last ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrogen		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrogen In his State of the Union address, President Bush outlined a vision of nonpolluting, hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars and promised to pony up $1.5 billion over five years to make that vision a reality. Almost everyone, from environmentalists to automakers, agrees that the transition toward hydrogen is a good thing, at least in theory: It is clean, abundant, and could ultimately free the U. ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sweet Carolina		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Carolina For the first time, residents of North Carolina will be able to buy their electricity from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and biomass. Under "NC Greenpower," a new plan approved by the state earlier this week, industrial electricity customers can choose to pay about 2.5 extra cents per kilowatt hour for green power; residential consumers would pay roughly ...
Topics: energy, green living, North Carolina, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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)

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