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Third Time's the Charm?
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Donella H. Meadows |
12 Jun 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| Three stories have hit the news lately concerning three corporations that have done -- or may have done -- serious environmental harm. They are coping with the situation in very different ways. Taken together, the stories suggest an odd combination of hope and cynicism. There are signs of honesty, good will, real learning. But the damage is great, and the learning is slow. Story No. 1 is the latest development in a decades-long saga in ... |
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| Topics: business, health, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Wet's the Matter?
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Adam I. Lowe |
03 May 2000 |
Counter Culture |
| 1.1 billion -- the number of people worldwide who lack an adequate and safe supply of water for their daily needs, approximately one in five 5 million --- the number of people, mostly children, who die each year from illnesses caused by poor-quality water supplies 5 -- the minimum number of gallons of water needed to meet a person's daily needs, according to the World Health Organization 4.5 -- the average number of gallons of water consumed daily pe ... |
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| Topics: health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Gas 'n' Uh-oh
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Adam I. Lowe |
29 Mar 2000 |
Counter Culture |
| 40 percent -- petroleum's share of global energy consumed in 1998 $246 -- amount spent by the author on gasoline to drive a 1987 Honda Accord 5,700 miles on a cross-country road trip from Feb. 15 to March 15, 2000 $433 -- estimated amount the author would have spent if he had driven a new Ford Explorer 4WD, the most popular sports utility vehicle in the U.S. $725 -- the cost of an equivalent amount of gas in 1981, adjusted for inflation to today's dollar ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, United States, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Order in the Court
The nitty-gritty on the ruling that lets citizens sue their way to a clean environment |
Michael Grynberg |
28 Mar 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Once upon a time, a South Carolina wastewater treatment plant repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act by dumping illegal amounts of mercury into a river. Unsurprisingly, several environmental organizations responded by suing. They could do so because the Clean Water Act contains "citizen suit" provisions that allow private citizens to sue for the law ... |
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| Topics: litigation, mercury, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Dead in the Water
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Donella H. Meadows |
14 Feb 2000 |
Global Citizen |
| Here's a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country's eastern border. A wave of cyanide was moving down the Szamos and into the Tisza, Hungary's second largest river. No one knew what had happened, but there was talk of a mine, operat ... |
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| Topics: globalization, Hungary, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Thirty-three
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Josh Sevin |
19 Oct 1999 |
Counter Culture |
| percent by which energy-efficient windows can cut cooling and heating bills percentage of the world's population living in countries experiencing moderate to high water stress percentage of toxic water pollution caused by personal vehicle use percentage of the world's energy consumed by developing nations percentage of all raw materials used in the U.S. that go toward the production of meats, dairy products, and eggs percentage of the world's remaining temp ... |
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| Topics: water pollution, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Six
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Josh Sevin |
12 Oct 1999 |
Counter Culture |
| approximate number of species that go extinct per hour percent by which electricity demand is rising annually in China and South Asia percentage of the energy used in U.S. manufacturing that goes toward food processing and packaging percent reduction in the average household's water pollution if it converts from buying conventional produce and grains to buying organic factor by which global water consumption rose between 1900 and 1995 the world population, in billio ... |
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| Topics: green living, population, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Absolut Advertising
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Ben White |
28 Jul 1999 |
Muckraker |
| If you are like us (and we bet you are) you were sipping your coffee and peacefully perusing your New York Times Tuesday morning when POW! you were smacked upside the head by a clever full-page ad from the Environmental Working Group previewing its release of a study on the effects of the herbicide atrazine. The ad, mimicking the long-running Absolut Vodka campaign, pictures a baby bottle with an atrazine-warning label. The caption reads, "Absolu ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Environmental Working Group, health, Muckraker, national forests, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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