AltWeeklies Wire
Will the Louisiana Public Service Commission Pull the Plug on Renewable Energy?new
Both sides of the scale tip with each consideration: Will ratepayers get shafted? Will utilities stay out of the red? Are jobs stable? Is the environment benefiting? Are our local energy sources secure? And can the feds stay out of the state's hair?
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
03-17-2010 |
Environment
Global-E Revs Up an Alternative Auto Empirenew
The Progressive Automotive X-Prize is a multimillion-dollar competition to design, build and race the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. Global-E believes its 110-mpg hybrid gas-electric vehicle design is a top contender.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
05-27-2009 |
Environment
A Blue-Ribbon Green Housenew
Two LSU architecture students win a design competition with an affordabe, sustainable house for a New Orleans area ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The design incorporates a shipping container, a wall of recycled crab traps with oyster shells in them, and fishing nets used as balcony railings.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
04-24-2009 |
Environment
Louisiana Perks Up for the Emerging Carbon Trade Marketnew
The rapidly evolving industry — dubbed the "cap-and-trade" market — pays sellers, typically landowners, for sequestering carbon dioxide by growing trees and plants that remove it from the atmopshere with the potential of limiting the level of pollutants that contribute to global warming.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
06-25-2008 |
Environment
In the Wake of Katrina, Congress Now Requires Review of Corps of Engineers Decisionsnew
But it does not require the Corps to heed the reviews -- or the reviewers.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
04-23-2008 |
Environment
Getting the Oil and Gas Companies to Help Pay to Restore Louisiana's Coastnew
Until recently, Walter Williams was best known as the creator of Saturday Night Live's infamously tragic character, Mr. Bill. His recent documentary, Restoring the Coast: Who Pays?, explores the legacy of oil and gas companies along Louisiana's coast.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
04-15-2008 |
Environment
A Gulf of Changenew
There remain privateers that feed off Louisiana's shoreline, only now they're charged with missions paid for and assigned by state government. The immediate aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita sent a flood of fly-by-night contractors and engineers into Louisiana, with many folding as soon as they set up.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
04-02-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
FEMA's Toxic Trailersnew
Katrina evacuees living in FEMA trailers are being told by FEMA and the CDC that they need to move because their homes could be toxic.
Gambit |
Amanda Spake |
02-28-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Forgotten Forestsnew
Louisiana's coastal wetland forests are hard to define, but they could be easy to lose if timber and environmental interests don't resolve some fundamental differences.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
12-26-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Coal Hard Truthnew
Concerns about climate change and regional economics collide in Entergy's bid to refit a power plant to burn coal in Louisiana.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
12-05-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Much Ado About Mulchnew
Wal-Mart has agreed to stop selling Louisiana cypress mulch, but much more needs to be done to protect Louisiana's iconic tree.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
10-24-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Unkindest Cutnew
Environmentalists try to save dwindling Louisiana cypress forests from becoming ground cover for gardeners.
Gambit |
Mollie Day |
08-15-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Why Isn't New Orleans Recycling?new
Recycling is more than a great way to put durable products back into use and save landfill space, and it's also good economic development -- but post-Katrina, the city has abandoned its program.
Gambit |
Sarah Andert |
08-15-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Where the Buffalo Roamednew
Exploring Louisiana's "other land loss" -- that of farm and grasslands to urbanization -- sheds light on a disturbing worldwide trend.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
07-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Raising the Lower Ninenew
How residents of one historic neighborhood in New Orleans are framing the flood-ravaged area's recovery in modern, "green" terms.
Gambit |
Ariane Wiltse |
06-26-2007 |
Environment
