AltWeeklies Wire
Making Waves ... and Powernew
Is it the Americans or powerful oil and gas interests standing in the way of wind farms on the Great Lakes?
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
07-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Air of Terrornew
Ontario's new air quality alert system lies -- just like U.S. terror attack index.
NOW Magazine |
Mike Smith |
07-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Corporate Pollution Absolutionnew
Planktos is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
07-18-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Blueprints Go Greennew
Environmentally friendly buildings gaining popularity, certification.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
07-17-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Hill County Critters Struggle Through Wet Weathernew
Drought, summer storms and floods are hammering Austin wildlife.
Austin Chronicle |
Richard Whittaker |
07-16-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Will This Be Firestorm 2007?new
The risk of another major fire season in British Columbia is high.
The Georgia Straight |
Carlito Pablo |
07-13-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Timber!new
When President Bush declared western New York a federal disaster area following last October's freak snowstorm, he touched off an urban logging operation in Buffalo, paid for by federal dollars and benefiting only a few private contractors.
Artvoice |
Buck Quigley |
07-13-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Pesticides Get Green Light in Neighborhoodnew
California Legal Rural Assistance attorneys appeal the decision to the state.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
07-12-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Plugged In To Windnew
Texas remains the national leader in wind energy, yet only 2.5 percent of the state's energy comes from renewable sources.
San Antonio Current |
Stephen Keller |
07-11-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Todd Pelman's Household Energy Turbinesnew
The 34-year-old engineer has pioneered San Francisco's first permitted micro–wind project, and now his company, Blue Green Pacific, is working to put the wind-power turbines on the market in the next year.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rachel Stern |
07-11-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Taking the LEEDnew
Green-friendly architecture is trying to redesign the bottom line.
San Diego CityBeat |
Justin Roberts |
07-11-2007 |
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
Driving to the Brinknew
Every time Congress considers raising CAFE standards, the automakers wail and howl.
Metro Times |
Jack Lessenberry |
07-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
What Global Warming Could Mean for Michigannew
Winters are milder, lakes aren't freezing over the way they once did, spring-like weather is arriving earlier -- and those changes beget more change.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
07-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Environmentalists Skeptical of 'Clean' Coalnew
Although the debate over coal-burning power plants often begins at the smokestack, the Sierra Club finds that coal's path of destruction really begins in the mine and continues to wreak havoc until waste finds its way to a landfill, abandoned mine, or human lung.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
07-09-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
