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Enviro movie of the year? A review of The Host	Kit Stolz	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill
What is an environmental movie? Is it a movie that uses the beauty of wilderness to make us fall in love with the earth, as for example Into the Wild, or Brokeback Mountain? Is it a movie that explicitly tackles an environmental issue, such as Erin Brockovich, or The China Syndrome? Or is it a picture that exploits the power of raw film to open up an environmental theme -- such as the risk of radiation -- with sheer imagination, such as (the original) God ...
Topics: toxics, waste, water pollution, movies (all these topics)

The River Defiled Record amount of sewage dumped into China's Yangtze River		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Last year, China's state media deemed the Yangtze River "cancerous" with pollution; to stick with the analogy, it appears the cancer has spread, as a record amount of sewage was dumped into the river in 2006. That's 30.5 beeeeeellion tons of (mostly untreated) industrial and human waste, an increase of 3.1 percent over the year before. sources: Xinhua, Agence France-Presse < ...
Topics: China, news, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Getting Trashed Britain quickly running out of landfill space, says study		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 13 Nov 2007 The British, who apparently have a penchant for tossing rubbish willy-nilly, may run out of landfill space in a mere nine years, says a new report. Says Paul Bettison of the Local Government Association, which conducted the research, "Britain is the dustbin of Europe, with more rubbish being thrown into landfill than any other country on the continent." Sounds like they're in a h ...
Topics: news, United Kingdom, waste (all these topics)

Smolder and Wiser On fireplace ashes	Umbra Fisk	12 Nov 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, What should we do with ashes from the fireplace? I've heard that they're great for the garden and I've heard that they may not be so good for the garden. Are they a good replacement for salt on slippery sidewalks? Janet Allen Syracuse, N.Y. Dearest Janet, Why not make some soap? Here come the holidays, after all. All you'd have to do is run water over the ashes to make potash, boil the potash down into lye, render your o ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

More Grist love on the 'Today' show 7 items you didn't know you could recycle	Katy Balatero	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This time around, Chip and Katharine chat about how to recycle unusual items: How to recycle
Topics: TV, waste, recycling, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Life In Plastic, Not Fantastic NYC considers crackdown on plastic bags		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 30 Oct 2007 New to the plastic bag-bannin' bandwagon: New York City. source: Reuters see also, in Grist: San Francisco, Bombay, Taiwan, Bangladesh ban plastic bags From the Archives Iraq, You Wrack. Largest Iraqi dam on verge of collapse, say U.S. officials. Suffer the Little Children. Pediatricians warn climate-change health effects worse for kids. Exx Appeal. U.S. Supreme Co ...
Topics: green living, New York City, news, progress, shopping, waste (all these topics)

Junk-free mailbox A new company offers relief from unwanted mail	Maywa Montenegro	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Perhaps the only great thing about having moved four times in the past year is that I get virtually no junk mail, at least yet. At my permanent residence in Tennessee, however, where my parents have lived for over twenty years; the catalogs, credit card offers, and sweepstakes offers cram the mailbox on a daily basis. Just yesterday my mother was telling me how bad it's gotten -- and how bad she feels trekking straight from the post box to the recycling bin with arm ...
Topics: business, waste (all these topics)

Garbage Can Do Largest U.S. garbage hauler greens operations		12 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 12 Oct 2007 Strange but true: Our trash is going green. The nation's largest garbage hauler and landfill operator, Waste Management Inc., has announced plans to make its operations more eco-friendly. The company hopes to double its landfill methane-to-electricity production by 2020, boost the fuel efficiency of its fleet by 15 percent by 2020, process more recyclables, and set aside more land for wildlife habitat. ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, news, waste (all these topics)

Free catalog-stopping service	JMG	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Block that junk!
Topics: waste (all these topics)

Guilt-free fizz Want environmentally conscious effervescence? DIY	Sarah van Schagen	10 Oct 2007	Gristmill
If you're a fan of sparkling water but feel guilty about having to buy it bottled, you might enjoy this NYT story about home seltzer makers that provide "environmentally conscious effervescence." Myself, I don't care for the bubbly stuff, but I did find this part amusing (emph. mine, obvi): Plain tap water has become the surprise food fashion of the year. A growing number of restaurants are offering it in place of bottled water, which is much more ...
Topics: food, green living, waste (all these topics)

Into the Wild On tossing food waste	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I am a college student. I eat a lot on the go. Not fast food or boxed meals, but when I leave my dorm I usually grab an apple, banana, or other fruit/veggie to eat as I walk to my destination. I don't compost, instead I just throw the banana peel or apple core into the bushes. I like the thought that maybe one day my apple core will become an apple, or that my banana peel will help nourish that piece of ground/animals in t ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, education, food, green living, waste (all these topics)

Oh, Sproat It All Yucca Mountain may be doubled in size, need more funding		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 05 Oct 2007 In a move sure to endear Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository to fiercely opposed Nevadans, the Department of Energy has proposed doubling its size. Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) concisely sums up the reaction of the sane: "Doubling the size of Yucca Mountain will only double the danger. This is not a bad dream; it's a nightmare." In addition, the DOE's Edward F. S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, insanity, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Into the Breach DOE hasn't opened Yucca nuclear-waste dump, must pay millions for breach of contract		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 01 Oct 2007 As if the saga of Nevada's Yucca Mountain wasn't ridiculous enough, a court has ruled that the Department of Energy's failure to open the nuclear-waste repository on time will have a price tag of $116.5 million, payable to Xcel Energy for breach of contract. And just to remind you of the ridiculousness, in the words of Minnesota State Senator Ellen Anderson: &quo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, litigation, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Not Our Fault Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump moves structures to account for fault line		25 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:46 PM on 25 Sep 2007 If falsified quality-assurance documents and vehement opposition from locals (among other things) aren't enough to put Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump on your list of Bad Places to Dump Nuclear Waste, may we offer you an inconveniently located underground fault line? From the Archives Brown Towns. British prime minister aims to build ev ...
Topics: energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

Electronic Boogie Greenpeace releases another ranking of tech companies' environmental records		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:09 PM on 21 Sep 2007 Greenpeace has released the fifth version of its Guide to Greener Electronics, and lauds the tech industry for making "great improvements" since the first scorecard hit the scene in August 2006. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Dell took the top three spots this time around; Apple, the CEO of which was rankled by his company's dead-last ranking in April, is now soli ...
Topics: business, e-waste, greenish companies, Greenpeace, news, tech (all these topics)

'Luncheon meat in pouches' ... ew More than half of U.S. families bought packaged meat last year. Gross	Tom Philpott	19 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The phrase "luncheon meat in pouches" strikes me as singularly unappetizing -- industrially grown meat, lashed with God-knows-what chemicals, and stuffed into plastic. Even as an industrial-food-scarfing child, the slippery wetness and sketchy pink color of such food always struck me as just wrong (not that it stopped me from digging in). Can't be easy on the landscape, either, given the undeniable depredations of industrial meat, and the lifecycle-spann ...
Topics: food, waste (all these topics)

Nuggets and Hummers and fish sticks, oh my! PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet	Grist	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Bruce Friedrich, vice president for campaigns at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It was written in response to Alex Roth's essay "PETA's dogma is all bark and no bite." Friedrich has been an environmental activist for more than 20 years. In 1987, I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and -- primarily for human rights and environmental reasons -- went vegan. Two decades later, I still believe ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, aquaculture, climate, deforestation, fishing, food, health, sustainable ag, vegetarianism and veganism, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Remedial Math U.S. EPA falls short of fiscal-year goals for Superfund cleanup		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:34 PM on 14 Sep 2007 The U.S. EPA had aimed to clean up 40 Superfund sites in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, but only got around to 24 of them. The Bush administration will now average 39 finished cleanups a year; just for comparison's sake, the Clinton administration gussied up an average of 76 sites annually. More than 1,200 sites are still awaiting remediation, which means that at this rate ... oh, ...
Topics: news, toxics, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

Outfit to Be Tied Inexpensive clothing industry has a big impact on the environment		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:14 PM on 06 Sep 2007 That $5 T-shirt you're wearing may have been a great find for your wallet, but the impact of such thrifty threads is far-reaching. A globalization-fueled glut of cut-price clothing has inspired many consumers to think of their duds as disposable. It's a phenomenon some are calling "fast fashion" -- the apparel equivalent of fast food. Most fast fashionistas are obliviou ...
Topics: consumerism, fashion, green living, news, shopping, waste (all these topics)

The wrong kind of bulk discount Washington state caps the cost to pollute, rather than the pollution	JMG	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch) picks up a Seattle P-I report on yet another counterproductive incentive: making it cheaper to pollute in bulk. The more hazardous waste you produce in Washington, the better the deal you can get from the state. Companies that make chemicals, oil, paint, paper and airplanes must pay a Hazardous Waste Planning Fee for the toxic substances that they pump into the air and water or send to landfills. But because the f ...
Topics: air pollution, business, toxics, Washington, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Living off the landfill British reality show dumps participants into a trash-heap of trouble	Sarah van Schagen	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is an interesting concept for a reality show: Eleven unsuspecting volunteers are left marooned on one of Britain's biggest landfill sites for three weeks. Their challenge? To survive off the rubbish the rest of us have thrown out. How will they react when they are delivered to a huge, smelly British landfill site instead of paradise? And, how will our volunteers cope when brought face to face with the sheer scale of the typical British landfill? ...
Topics: TV, United Kingdom, waste (all these topics)

Plastic fantastic	Sarah van Schagen	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Check out this plastic bag photo gallery.
Topics: art, waste (all these topics)

So that's what happened to my recycled Coronas Crushed glass may help replenish Florida beaches	Sarah van Schagen	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In order to deal with the constant erosion of Florida's beaches, one county has decided to stop building outrageously expensive real estate so close to the water's edge it practically begs nature to destroy it. Ha, ha. Just kidding. Actually they're looking into replenishing beaches with recycled beer bottles, crushed, of course, into tiny sand-size particles. I bet I know what Annie Lennox would say about this ...
Topics: Florida, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Victory, with a catch BP promises to stop dumping waste into the Great Lakes	Jon Rynn	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill
On July 15, the Chicago Tribune reported that BP wanted to significantly increase the discharge of ammonia and toxic wastes into the Great Lakes. The outcry was enormous -- even Republican congressmen from the area joined in the criticism, and several powerful congressional members, including Rahm Emanuel in the House and Barack Obama in the Senate, threatened hearings. The city of Chicago was considering legal action, and a large petition drive began. Apparently the pol ...
Topics: business, Chicago, energy, George Bush, Indiana, oil, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Here's the (poop) scoop A biodegradable doggie bag	Sarah van Schagen	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This week, here at Grist HQ, we got an interesting package in the mail that contained two biodegradable doggie bags. No, not for your leftover takeout ... but rather, ahem, for your doggie's leftovers.The Skooperbox, which actually looks quite like a takeout box, is apparently made of 100 percent recycled material and is 100 percent biodegradable. This is key because the plastic baggie alternative prevents the compostable organic material from being able to biodegr ...
Topics: green living, waste (all these topics)

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