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How to find the capital needed for green public investments What if city hall had to disclose its assumptions like Wall Street does?	JMG	14 May 2007	Gristmill
For those unaware, Michigan has been hard hit by the increasingly insistent intrusion of an unpleasant reality (that the era of cheap energy is over). Detroit and Wayne County are especially hard hit, as the economic malady destroying the auto industry hit a city already weakened to the point of collapse by stark racial segregation and disinvestment. What Michigan likes to do is imagine that 'big projects' will save it, so it tends to build enormous temples to optimism, much ...
Topics: business, cars, energy, greening biz operations, travel (all these topics)

Flights up, odds of stopping climate disruption falling The roar of jets drowns out the warnings about jet emissions	JMG	10 May 2007	Gristmill
'New Plane Trips Outstripping Any Ecological Improvements in Flying': Aviation growth is soaring to an all-time high, raising the prospect of a huge increase in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. For the first time, more than 2.5 million commercial flights will be made around the world in a single month, with 2.51 million scheduled for May, says the flight information company OAG. This beats the previous record of 2.49 million flights last August. The fig ...
Topics: ecological footprint, energy, green living, travel (all these topics)

Uh oh	David Roberts	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Don't tell JMG!
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, travel (all these topics)

Carbon-free air travel We've got it figured out	Adam Browning	03 May 2007	Gristmill
It's a big problem, but I've been thinking hard about it and I think I've got it figured out: Of course, it will take a while to perfect the technology. Nominate test-pilots in the comments. For my part, I nominate anyone who complains about Al Gore's plane travel without making an equivalent effort to fight global warming. Here's your chance to show him up, big-time.
Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Gore reaches fame of Biblical proportions Uh, literally	Kate Sheppard	03 May 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth replaces the Gideon Bible in fancy new hotel. Dirt-worshiping hippies rejoice.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, religion and spirituality, travel (all these topics)

Cynics can't keep up Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see	JMG	03 May 2007	Gristmill
From the article 'Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action,' posted on Common Dreams: 'The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies,' he said. 'If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Travolta strikes again John Travolta's private plane fetish brings the noise to a small Maine community	Yolanda Crous	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Oh, John Travolta. When will you and your planes stop p$#@ing off the populace? Apparently it's not enough for Mr. Saturday-Night-Give-the-Planet-a-Fever to wander the globe in his private planes, trailing an excess of carbon emissions in his wake. He's also got to land his plane near his Maine residence during the area's voluntary no-fly period between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Come on, John. It's bad enough that you're contributing to warming the planet. Now you're ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, travel (all these topics)

When will people on bikes be treated as well as smokers? Bike racks in rain, smokers under cover	JMG	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I am pissed. I just learned that my county would rather provide shelter from the weather for its employees who smoke (and drive up healthcare costs) than let those citizen-terrorists on bikes park out of the rain near the county building.So I have to go to the county building today after a lunch meeting. Rather than drive, I hop on my bike and dodge traffic and the shards of cars swept into the so-called "bike lanes." I get to the county building and it's starting to r ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Turbocharged crap by any other name would smell as ... Biofuels scam at 12 o'clock high!	JMG	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Is there anything that the rich and venal won't do to stave off limits on jet flights? The new scam is a discussion of laundering the fossil fuels through 'biofuels' ...Yeah, it's not enough that we're going to starve people and destroy the 'last six inches of topsoil in Iowa' to propel SUVs ... now we have to add jets to the mix. With creative accounting (and ignoring that jets pump tons of water vapor into the atmosphere [_at a level_] where it has no natural presence) we can ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, green living, travel (all these topics)

Tunnels everywhere!	John McGrath	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
First a train tunnel between Africa and Europe, now the Russians want to build the long-dreamt-of tunnel between Russia and Alaska. The tunnel would theoretically carry natural gas, oil, electricity, and fiber-optic wires. The more and better tunnels we have for rail, the more competitive rail will be with less efficient transport systems like air travel. This is better for energy efficiency and therefore the environment. This project still has a lot of problems - ...
Topics: Alaska, green living, placemaking, Russia, travel (all these topics)

The jet set Only the little people fly scheduled airlines	JMG	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In response to this story, about how the airport tax paid by proles being herded onto commercial boxcars is spent to make life even cushier for the big guys flying Lear jets, someone defended the poor abused jet setters thus: It is worth pointing out that those 'Learjets' burn bunches of fuel and pay the corresponding fuel taxes, so they aren't getting a totally free ride. Figure 200 gallons an hour as a usable figure (jet pilots figure burn in pounds, with taxes of $.50 a ga ...
Topics: energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

They Have Reservations U.S. EPA adopts green guidelines for travel planning		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
They Have Reservations U.S. EPA adopts green guidelines for travel planning As of May, hotels and convention centers hoping to woo government accounts might need to polish their eco-cred. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has crafted a list of must-ask questions for potential hosts on topics from energy efficiency to paperless billing to towel reuse. (Anyone else picturing Johnson toweling off, or is it just us?) ...
Topics: green living, news, travel, US EPA (all these topics)

An argument for cell phones on airline flights Something that destructive outside SHOULD be unpleasant inside	JMG	15 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A comment left on Sam Smith's Progressive Review discussion of cell phone bans on commercial airline flights: I don't give a wet slap why the FAA continues to ban cell phone use on airplanes so long as the keep doing it. People who use their cell phones in public places are loud and obnoxious, and on an airplane there's nowhere for anybody else to go. I can always move to the next car on BART, or get off the bus and walk, but for eight hours across the Atlantic trapped in a met ...
Topics: green living, travel (all these topics)

Conservation cowboys Rich Westerners bypass gov't to save rainforests	David Roberts	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I have mixed feelings about these "conservation cowboys" -- rich Westerners who tromp down South in pursuit of grandiose eco-preservation schemes. They possess immense amounts of discretionary capital and can often sidestep cumbersome, slow-moving government machinery. But there's a tinge of colonialism about it. If they tread too heavily, I fear they'll end up sparking a populist backlash in the South that casts environmentalism as a form of imperialism (mo ...
Topics: green living, travel (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: What should greens do about air travel? When is it necessary, and what are the alternatives?	Peter Madden	21 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. The Bishop of London recently proclaimed that flying on holiday is a sin, a view that seems increasingly to be shared by greens in the U.K. Our environment minister, David Miliband, castigated Prince Charles for flying to America to receive an award, suggesting that he should have collected it via video-link. Mayer Hillman, author ...
Topics: air travel, carbon offsets, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Fly swatter Or, how to stick a lot of information in a very short post	Sarah K. Burkhalter	21 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Following up on this airline news, Planet Ark reports: The European Union's executive arm approved plans on Wednesday to include aviation in its emissions trading system, giving international flights in and out of the EU a one-year reprieve before they have to join.Intra-EU flights will join the scheme, aimed at cutting global air pollution, in 2011. Flights into and out of the bloc will be included the following year, giving non-EU carriers time to prepare an ...
Topics: air travel, carbon trading, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Trash talking the airline industry A little holiday guilt for ya	Kate Sheppard	20 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Just in time for your holiday flight back to whence you came, a little news about the environmental effects of your holiday airline travel that will make you feel almost as guilty as your relatives will. Much like your family tree (OK, maybe just mine), your trip will inevitably generate trash. Airlines throw away tons and tons of cans, bottles, and paper each year, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In one year, they dispose of enou ...
Topics: air travel, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel, waste (all these topics)

Being exploited? Exploit them back.	Corey McKrill	21 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Tomorrow, Alaska's primary election will include an important ballot measure that imposes new regulations and taxes on the cruise ship industry. For environmental protection, it includes beefed-up regulations that will hold cruise corporations more accountable to Alaska's strict pollution controls, as well as allowing civil action suits against violators. For economic growth, it proposes a head tax on all cruise passengers coming into the state, the revenue of which w ...
Topics: Alaska, legislation, politics, travel, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Ah, Summer in Rwanda African nations try to bring in eco-tourists		12 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Ah, Summer in Rwanda African nations try to bring in eco-tourists African nations are hoping to boost their economies by attracting the ecologically curious, following the example of nations like Costa Rica, which thrives on ecotourism. The island nation of Madagascar has boosted protection of forests and wetlands and boasts biodiversity rivaled only by the rainforests of Brazil. Other countries r ...
Topics: Africa, Conservation International, news, Rwanda, travel (all these topics)

Move Thyself: Post script: The thievery capitulation	Todd Hymas Samkara	17 May 2006	Gristmill
As if this guy didn't already have enough interesting stories about decades spent cycling essentially nonstop around the world, here's one more: For almost 44 years, Heinz St�cke traveled the world on his beloved three-speed black bicycle. After 335,000 miles (539,100 kilometers), the 'most traveled man in history' had his bike stolen in Portsmouth, southern England as he slept in his tent. Luckily for St�cke, the thief reads the paper. In an interview with the ...
Topics: bikes, travel (all these topics)

Get smart	Clark Williams-Derry	01 May 2006	Gristmill
This is a bit far afield, perhaps, but the British press is reporting that new drivers in the UK will soon have to take an 'eco-driving' test in order to get their license. The UK initiative is modelled after a Dutch program that claims that smarter driving habits -- slower acceleration, less braking, lower top speeds -- can shave gas consumption by a third or more.Last year, after a brief (and undeserved) flap over they Toyota Prius's worse-than-advertised mi ...
Topics: cars, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, travel, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Make Me a Map How Wendy Brawer put green on the map	Tim Sprinkle	18 Apr 2006	Arts and Minds
Don't let Wendy Brawer's urban address fool you -- this New Yorker has a soft spot for nature. After all, she's the founder of Modern World Design, an eco-design firm, and has spent the last 11 years at the helm of the Green Map System, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping citizens all over the world document and map their local environmental resources. Wendy Brawer with two Green Map System staffers. Photo: ...
Topics: placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Tropic of Answer Charles Munn, a pioneer of South American ecotourism, answers readers' questions		14 Apr 2006	InterActivist
Charles Munn, Tropical Nature. Ecotourism is promoted as a sustainable alternative to industrial development; however, ecotourism does not generate the same immediate financial returns as industrial development. How can activists formulate their argument when aiming to save pristine areas from mining through promoting ecotourism?�� -- Jacqueline Obando, Pretoria, South Africa Well, yes, ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, South America, travel (all these topics)

Rage against the (hybrid) machine	Clark Williams-Derry	10 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Some California drivers are getting all steamed up that they have to share the carpool lanes with single-occupant hybrids, like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic, under a new state program. Some of the complaints, of course, should be taken with a grain of salt. Said one fumer in an online discussion group: "These [drivers] barely go 65 mph and allow no one to pass them on the right... Talk about road rage!" Uh, dude, that's not road rage -- that's wh ...
Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, politics, travel (all these topics)

A Tour for What Ails Ya Charles Munn, a pioneer of South American ecotourism, answers Grist's questions		10 Apr 2006	InterActivist
Charles Munn. What work do you do? I am chair of the board of Tropical Nature, a nonprofit conservation group specializing in conservation through ecotourism. What does your organization do? We run the world's largest network of eco-lodges in tropical rainforest -- in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil. We also consult for rainforest and tropical ecotourism companies and for gover ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, South America, travel (all these topics)

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