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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)

Feeling Gassy		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Feeling Gassy Negotiators for the U.S. House and Senate have reached an agreement on new fuel-economy rules that would expand rather than decrease the country's oil consumption. Under the agreement, automakers would continue to receive credits through the model year 2008 for manufacturing vehicles that can run on both ethanol and gasolin ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Green Davis		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Green Davis California Gov. Gray Davis (D) kept the green ink flowing yesterday by signing several more environmental measures into law. Perhaps the most significant of the laws -- what Davis termed "the most ambitious" renewable energy standard in the country -- requires that 20 percent of the electricity produced by private utilities in the state come from green sources by ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, politics, renewable energy, toxics (all these topics)

Sweet!		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Sweet! Along with emissions from power plants, pollution from vehicles is the major air-pollution culprit. But that could change if cars ran on sugar, as a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has proposed. In a paper published in yesterday's edition of the journal Nature, the scientists detailed a technique for breaking down a glucose solution into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen would then be pu ...
Topics: climate, renewable energy (all these topics)

Week Links		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Week Links The first week of the World Summit on Sustainable Development has seen a mix of surprising twists and predictable problems. On the surprising end: Two very different organizations, Greenpeace International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, have agreed to join forces to combat climate change. The two groups plan to work together to convince governments to create an intern ...
Topics: climate, Greenpeace, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Got Sun? Marketing the revolution in clean energy	Amanda Griscom	29 Aug 2002	Powers That Be
Last month, 10 solar-powered race cars zipped around a 1.5-mile NASCAR track at the legendary Texas Motor Speedway, some of them reaching the dizzying speed of 35 miles per hour. With all its technological novelty and timely political implications, the Dell and Winston Solar Challenge (named for the computer and cigarette companies that sponsored it) might have been a grand public spectacle. But the entire 155,000-se ...
Topics: advertising, Bill McKibben, cars, grassroots activism, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

Think of New England		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Think of New England While tens of thousands of people from all over the world gather in South Africa to wrangle over global environmental issues, a far smaller coalition is meeting quietly this week to ensure that New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers follow through on their promise to combat climate change. The Connecticut Climate Action Group, a member of ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, New England, renewable energy (all these topics)

Better Living Through French Fries Is biodiesel the fuel of the future?	Hal Clifford	22 Aug 2002	Main Dish
The Granola Ayatollah of Canola, aka Charris Ford, slides behind the wheel of his 1980 International Scout truck and turns the key. The truck burbles to life and off we go, cruising down the gravel roads that divide the aspen groves of southwestern Colorado's Horsefly Mesa. It would be just a standard evening joyride, except that Ford's truck doesn't run on gasoline. Or diesel. Or electricity, or ...
Topics: climate, energy, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bird Slaw		22 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bird Slaw Compared to traditional energy sources (coal, oil, natural gas), wind energy seems like an environmentalist's dream come true: It doesn't pollute the air, land, or water, and it's infinitely renewable. Indeed, wind energy has a reputation as being one of the greenest energy sources out there. So why are environmentalists trying to put a stop to the constr ...
Topics: energy, green living, Pennsylvania, renewable energy, Sierra Club, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Gross Out		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Gross Out If Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D) has his way, a part of his state's share of the national tobacco settlement will be used to fund alternative energy projects. On Wednesday, Vilsack suggested spending $50 million of the $438 million settlement to help cities in Iowa build renewable energy plants such as wind turbines. The governor said his goal was to develop statewide energy resources, reduc ...
Topics: energy, green living, Iowa, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Teaching Our Children Well		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Teaching Our Children Well The three Rs could soon include "renewable" if Massachusetts has its way. Concerned about rising energy costs and student health, the state is offering financial incentives to districts to build environmentally friendly, health-conscious "green schools." Through a partnership with the Renewable Energy Trust, districts are being encouraged to make use of technologi ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, renewable energy (all these topics)

Darwin's Flinches		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Darwin's Flinches Just weeks after scientists found that an apparently harmless oil spill in the Galapagos Islands in January 2001 in fact led to a massive iguana die-off, another spill has tainted the pristine archipelago. Late last week, a small barge spilled close to 2,000 gallons of diesel near the island of Puerto Villamil, home to turtles, iguanas, and sea lions. The spill was small ...
Topics: Ecuador, energy, Galapagos Islands, marine life, renewable energy (all these topics)

IBM: I Buy Megawatts		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
IBM: I Buy Megawatts The World Resources Institute has corralled several prominent companies (think General Motors, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Kinkos) into expanding their use of renewable energy. The group hopes that a coalition of companies will commit to using 1,000 megawatts of renewable electricity by 2010; so far, companies in a dozen states have signed on to use 15 MW of power. IBM sa ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, renewable energy (all these topics)

Alternative Energy Crisis When it comes to renewable energy, the DOE is DOA	Amanda Griscom	11 Jun 2002	Powers That Be
The question isn't whether the Bush administration is in bed with the old-school energy industry; most of us have pretty much accepted that Big Oil and King Coal are the current sexy interns in the White House. Nor is the question whether we should be bracing for another oil shock; given the Iraqi oil boycott and political turbulence in Venezuela and Nigeria (two of the biggest oil suppliers ...
Topics: politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Barefoot but Not in Park		05 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Barefoot but Not in Park With gasoline selling for less than the price of a bottle of Evian and SUVs all the rage, fuel economy seems to have fallen off most Americans' radar screens. But this is the U.S. of A., land of a million subcultures, and one of them is obsessed with the quest for ultra-fuel efficiency. While most of us would be psyched about the hybrid Honda Insight's 64 miles per gallon, members of th ...
Topics: placemaking, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

The Answer, My Friends		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Answer, My Friends The biggest wind-energy meeting ever held in the U.S. opened today in Portland, Ore. Industry-watchers say the large turnout -- more than 1,500 people have registered for the three-day conference -- is a good sign for wind energy in general and for the role of the Pacific Northwest in the wind market in particular. Oregon doesn't have the bes ...
Topics: energy, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Portland, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Little Solar Station That Could		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Little Solar Station That Could The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power plant at Washington state's Hanford nuclear reservation, sits just one mile from the White Bluffs Solar Station. For the past three weeks, Energy Northwest, the Pacific Northwest's nuclear power producer, has been generating a tiny amount of electricity from solar panels at White Bluffs and ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Washington (all these topics)

Blowing His Top		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Blowing His Top The Bush administration appealed a federal court decision yesterday that would limit mountaintop-removal mining and asked the judge to clarify that the ruling "should be read as not applying nationwide or to activities other than coal mining." On May 8, U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II of West Virginia ruled that coal mining valley fills, ...
Topics: Appalachia, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

Now You See Them, Now You Don't In the Andes Mountains, the pace of climate change is far from glacial	Ross Wehner	22 Apr 2002	Main Dish
Even 16,500 feet in the air, perched on the steep slope of a volcano in Ecuador, French glaciologist Bernard Francou moves gracefully. Hopping among ice blocks and jagged rock debris, he stops suddenly before a boulder with blue letters painted on its surface. The thinker: Bernard Francou. Photo: Bernard Pouyaud, Ecuador Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia ...
Topics: climate, Ecuador, renewable energy, South America, wildlife (all these topics)

Andes Minced		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Ecuador, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect In a groundbreaking decision, a San Francisco jury determined yesterday that gasoline containing the additive MBTE is a defective product and that two major oil companies were aware of but did not disclose the additive's dangers when they began marketing it. The lawsuit was brought by the South Tahoe Pub ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Right in the Solar Plexus		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Right in the Solar Plexus From the believe-it-or-not department: To cover the costs of printing its 170-page energy plan last May, the Bush administration tapped into the Department of Energy's solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets. Documents released under court order by the DOE on Monday night indicate that $135,615 of the renewables and conservation budget was spent to print 10,000 c ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ? A breakdown of the renewables vote in the Senate	Amanda Griscom	15 Mar 2002	Muckraker

Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

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