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Retailers to Orlando: Ban Plastic Bags! Orlando: No Thanksnew
According to city spokeswoman Heather Allebaugh, Mayor Buddy Dyer has little interest in the issue: "In this case, the city feels banning the use of plastic bags is something the company itself should consider."
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Morey |
05-06-2008 |
Environment
Projecting Change Festival Gets Green On-screennew
The fims of Vancouver's first environmental film festival will focus on specific themes: food and agriculture, sustainable energy, building methods, consumer goods and kids, and the environment.
The Georgia Straight |
Matthew Burrows |
05-05-2008 |
Movies
Is Nuclear Energy Really Cheap or Clean?new
Behind the seeming swell of interest in nuclear energy is a well-funded lobbying effort that has funneled millions into Congress and the Bush administration, earning billions in subsidies for itself -- as well as a preferential treatment during Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy talks.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
05-05-2008 |
Environment
Retired Rangers Target Land Abuse by ATV Usersnew
Federal rangers consider unlawful ATV use to be a top law-enforcement issue on public lands, and a prime contributor to habitat destruction.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
05-01-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, ATVs
Clean Air at the Port Could Cost Small Truckersnew
As the Oakland port wades into a battle over clean air, some truckers are worried that they'll bear the brunt of the costs.
East Bay Express |
Emma Brown |
05-01-2008 |
Business & Labor
If Green is the New Black, Eco-Populism is the New Environmentalismnew
There's good reason to be excited about capitalists pouring money into saving the planet. But is it really the panacea that true believers say it is?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Vanessa Carr |
04-30-2008 |
Environment
Four Govs Gather at Yale Climate Conference to Promise They Won't Let the World Endnew
Governors Jon Corzine, Kathleen Sebelius, Jodi Rell and, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger, met to sign a declaration to renew statewide efforts to reduce our collective carbon footprint. The event marked the 100th anniversary of the original 1908 "governors conference" sponsored by then-President Theodore Roosevelt, which called the public "to consider the weightiest problem now before the nation."
New Haven Advocate |
Alexis Fitts |
04-29-2008 |
Environment
Why Environmental Consciousness Needs to Go Beyond Recyclingnew
For years, environmentalists have told us to first reduce consumption, then to reuse what we buy, and only then to recycle. But somehow, the option of last resort became the default setting. Leading environmental thinkers say it's time to take a different approach to our economy -- which means cultivating an even more radical relationship to the resources we use.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
A Pasadena Family Turns its Backyard into an Urban Homesteadnew
Melting ice caps, unchecked global oil consumption, mind-boggling volumes of trash accumulating in landfills -- the problems facing our planet are so big, it's tempting to tune them out. But when you talk to the Dervaes family, the founders of a home-based sustainable living resource center in Pasadena called Path to Freedom, it's the smallness of things you walk away thinking about.
Pasadena Weekly |
April Caires |
04-28-2008 |
Environment
Richard Heinberg Discusses a Post-Carbon Futurenew
Chances are, when you think about gasoline, it crosses your mind in an abstract way -- as if where it comes from and how much of it exists is someone else's problem. Thanks to peak oil expert Richard Heinberg, Americans' naive attitude toward fossil fuels may be changing.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
04-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Breaking the Oil Habit, One Car at a Timenew
Inside electric cars, grease cars, hybrids, and "eco-driving."
Shepherd Express |
Ken Reibel |
04-25-2008 |
Transportation
A 'Green Vision' for Indiananew
It is imprudent (some might say criminal) to continue to ignore or deny the pollution that places Indiana among the most toxic states in the nation.
NUVO |
Thomas P. Healy |
04-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, Indiana
Santa Fe's Eco-Friendly Taxis Stuck in Trafficnew
The startup cab company Green Taxi faces bureaucratic delays from New Mexico's existing cab companies.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dave Maass |
04-24-2008 |
Transportation
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
The Eco-Friendly Ways of Virginia's DelFosse Vineyardsnew
It has long been gospel that Virginia wines will never be organic; the sheer number of bugs and mildews pretty much necessitate spraying. But organic is sooo hippy dippy 1990s anyway; sustainability is what's hot.
C-Ville Weekly |
J. Tobias Beard |
04-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
