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New Chip Technologynew
Seeing forest for the wood chips in the brave new bio-economy.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
12-10-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Biomass
Is Your Best Furry Friend a Major Culprit in Global Warming?new
Pet lovers shouldn't look down on SUV owners. Feeding your four-legged companion requires as much land and energy as running a car.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-23-2009 |
Environment
Smoke Signalsnew
If government can help farmers quit tobacco, we can wean nuke and chem workers off nasty industries, too.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-28-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
World of Wasted Timenew
Climate change has stopped being human-created and in our control. Now what?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Green Divide That Isn'tnew
From terrific Greenbelt to terrible ethanol subsidies, there's an odd consensus among Canadian political parties heading into elections.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-28-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Are Organics Worth the Price?new
The question itself is part of our anti-planet narcissism.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-24-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Norman Borlaug, the Bad Seednew
Why give father of 60s agro reform a congressional medal when his Green Revolution devastated farming?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Energy Elites Are Fueling the New Right-Wing Eco Revolutionnew
From now on, those who deny the need to go green will be seen as wingnuts -- and mainstream right-wingers will embrace a right-wing view, rather than a right-wing denial of green causes.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
04-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Gore's Convenient Untruthsnew
Why isn't the eco golden boy nailing governments for rewarding carbon-belching Big Agro?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-05-2007 |
Environment
The Answer's Underfootnew
Soil is our best carbon trapper -- if only conventional agriculture wasn't churning it up.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
02-16-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Let's Not Blow Thisnew
There's still time to avoid the mistakes of past eco efforts that left our habitat in worse shape than before.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
02-09-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006new
The eco-anarchist died just as the civic revolution he seeded takes off.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-28-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Save the Planet One Drop at a Timenew
Replanting the way we do agriculture will save us from sucking the earth dry.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
07-28-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Carbon Tax, Bring It Onnew
Quebec's bold move leaves Ontario (and America) in the dust as a transformative eco tax forces polluters to cough up.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-22-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Let Kyoto Go?new
Enviros might consider how climate-saving could be instigated outside of Kyoto -- a process that can now be judged as going nowhere fast.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
05-25-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
