AltWeeklies Wire
Conservative Think Tank Plans Assault for Earth Daynew
The globe isn't warming. Nuclear power is green energy. Mining is good for Mother Nature and even better for the poor. Welcome to Earth Day, Utah style, courtesy of The Sutherland Institute.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Ted McDonough |
04-17-2008 |
Environment
Seven Things Portland Should Do to Get Serious About Being Greennew
Sometime between Gov. Tom McCall's speeches and Al Gore's Nobel Prize, Portland ceded the green crown. Here's how to get it back.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
04-16-2008 |
Environment
The Green Office: How to Make Your Workplace More Environmentally Friendlynew
Considering that a third of our daily lives is likely spent in an office, it's important that those hours are healthy ones, and of course, a healthy office is also a more environmentally friendly workplace.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
04-16-2008 |
Environment
Why is it So Hard to Get Solar Power in San Francisco?new
Across California, citizens are jumping at the chance to decrease their carbon output. Yet in San Francisco, where environmental sentiment and high energy costs ought to be driving a major solar boom, there's very little action.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell and Sarah Phelan |
04-16-2008 |
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
Ten Signs that Colorado's Environment is Heating Upnew
Signs of stress are already all over the state, and unless we rapidly alter our carbon-dioxide emissions -- and encourage China and India to do the same -- climate change will trigger even greater chaos on our landscapes and in our lives.
Boulder Weekly |
Joshua Zaffos |
04-15-2008 |
Environment
Are Skyscrapers Really Good for the Environment?new
Density is our hope for long-term survival. At least until peak oil. The problem with these sky-scraping symbols of long-term sustainability, according to an energy expert, is "figuring out how to heat the damn things. If we assume the heat source will be oil," Larry Hughes says, "it's very short-sighted, naive to the extreme."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Chris Benjamin |
04-14-2008 |
Environment
For Some Homeowners, Smaller is Betternew
People who live in very small houses -- 300 to 600 square feet -- can love them dearly and be just as proud as any mansion owner. They might bump into each other now and then; they might think about an addition. But most are not interested in having either more space or more stuff.
Isthmus |
Ann Grauvogl |
04-14-2008 |
Environment
Quebec Promises to Match Funding Raised for Green Campus Causesnew
The provincial government will match the funds raised by campuses in Quebec -- some $250,000, most of it raised at Concordia -- that were aimed at projects that would reduce carbon emissions.
Montreal Mirror |
Samer Elatrash |
04-11-2008 |
Environment
Real ID Creates Dilemmas for Border Wildlife Refugesnew
The Real ID Act grants Homeland Security leeway to ignore the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and other critical regulations when building roads and barriers along the Mexican border. Real ID also prohibits any judicial review, making lawsuits against habitat-destructive projects almost pointless.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-10-2008 |
Environment
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Peter Anin: Covering Great Lakes Water Warsnew
A Q&A with the journalist whose book Great Lakes Water Wars is the definitive chronicle on an issue of importance to the Midwest and the nation ... let's be less parochial, two nations as a whole.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
04-09-2008 |
Environment
Texas is Greenlighting Massive Nuclear Waste Dumpnew
Scientists and engineers at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality stridently object to the plans, but agency upper management wants to approve the licenses.
The Texas Observer |
Forrest Wilder |
04-09-2008 |
Environment
Toxic Town: Contamination in Texas Schoolsnew
Schools in the town of Somerville continue to show elevated toxins, but are the health risks bad enough to shut down the schools?
Houston Press |
Todd Spivak |
04-08-2008 |
Environment
Will Detroit Keep Incinerating Trash, or Seek a Greener Future?new
Confronted with that same dilemma more than two decades ago, the city responded by constructing the largest municipal waste incinerator in America. We went for the big burn -- and have been paying for it in a big way ever since.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
04-08-2008 |
Environment
Setting a Course on Biofuelsnew
Wisconsin researchers endeavor to work out the kinks.
Isthmus |
Mary Ellen Bell |
04-08-2008 |
Environment
