AltWeeklies Wire
Copper Giant Bails Outnew
Asarco, the mining company responsible for the cleanup of environmental messes across the West, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-19-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Asarco
Changing the Environmental Landscape, One Building at a Timenew
Designed to conserve water and energy, "green buildings" are constructing a cleaner world.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
08-11-2005 |
Environment
Tags: in, energy, technology, environmental, and, green, for, Campus, Massachusetts, design, artists, Collaborative’s, Harvard, Humanity, Initiative, leadership, Renewable, trust
Rats Take Over a Formerly Spiffy City Parknew
For years, the park was privately owned and maintained. In those halcyon days, the park was clean and peaceful, brimming with strollers and picnickers. No more.
Houston Press |
Todd Spivak |
08-08-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
War of the Energy Worldsnew
A coalition of Nevadans say wind and geothermal power could achieve the same goals as a coal-burning plant proposed for the Nevada desert without environmental devastation.
Reno News & Review |
Deidre Pike |
07-26-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Sierra Club, San Diego, acid-rain-causing nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SOx), cartographer, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Public Resource Associates, Sempra Energy compressed coal-burning plant, Smoke Creek Desert, supply power to California. David Rumsey, the Gerlach General Improvement District and the Pyramid Lake Tribe, toxic emissions, Washoe County, Western Resource Advocates, Wildlife
The Winds of Warnew
There are obstacles -- including a whole lotta hot air -- to turning wind energy into a realistic alternative.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
07-14-2005 |
Environment
Floods of Raw Sewage Plague Homeownernew
Twice since 2001, Donna Hesketh's Phoenix home has been flooded with raw sewage.
Phoenix New Times |
Bruce Rushton |
07-06-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Park, Sunnyslope
Phoenix's Sewer Crisis: A Real S#&t Stormnew
The quick corrosion of the city's concrete sewer pipes has gone unnoticed by most toilet users, but it's been the talk of the sewage world, with civil engineers from across the country looking to Phoenix as an object lesson.
Phoenix New Times |
Bruce Rushton |
07-06-2005 |
Environment
How to Read a Beachnew
Duke University professor emeritus Orrin Pilkey is one of the nation's leading experts on beaches, and his book, How to Read a North Carolina Beach, shows how beaches really work.
INDY Week |
Kirk Ross and Orrin Pilkey |
06-30-2005 |
Environment
Die, Weed, Dienew
An alien moth munches an invasive fern -- one that is threatening Florida's Everglades -- into extinction.
Miami New Times |
Wyatt Olson |
06-27-2005 |
Environment
The Case Against the Plutonium Space Race
Even though the use of plutonium-238 in space could endanger the lives of people on earth, the United States has greatly expanded its nuclear space program.
Boise Weekly |
Karl Grossman |
06-26-2005 |
Environment
Fresh Airnew
There are signs that the party of Teddy Roosevelt - our first conservationist president - may be reviving its care for the environment, and wonders whether or not the Bushoids will listen.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
06-23-2005 |
Environment
Environmental Cyclenew
San Francisco is the master of the art of hypocritical, Earth-friendly rhetoric. Official support for bicycle commuters could lessen the cognitive dissonance.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
06-16-2005 |
Environment
The Falls Guysnew
A battle over restoring an abused national treasure pits an engineer against an environmentalist; and at first glance, they are taking unlikely sides.
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
06-09-2005 |
Environment
Southern Co. Tackles Global Warming ...or Does It?new
Southern Co. is making progress when it comes to pollution reduction, spending $6 billion on controls for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and mercury. But that money will do nothing to combat global warming.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
06-09-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Current Dangernew
Montana's Blackfoot River -- of A River Runs Through It fame -- is threatened by the crumbling Mike Horse dam. Again.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-03-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
