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Thirty-three
• percent by which energy-efficient windows can cut cooling and heating bills • percentage of the world’s population living in countries experiencing moderate to high water stress • percentage of toxic water pollution caused by personal vehicle use • percentage of the world’s energy consumed by developing nations • percentage of all raw materials used […]
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I Am the Triax, I Speak for the Cars
General Motors is taking a step forward in the race to produce green cars with an announcement today that it has developed a new concept vehicle, called the Triax, that can operate with a range of power sources, including gasoline, hybrid, and electric systems powered by either batteries or fuel cells. In the meantime, U.S. […]
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Hot Under the Cholera
The Yamuna river, the largest tributary of India’s holiest river, the Ganges, is so severely polluted that it brings death rather than life to the people along its banks, breeding cholera, malaria, and other diseases. The government’s 1993 cleanup plan for the river, which focused on building more sewage treatment plants, has barely made a […]
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Pellets Palliate Pullet Pollution
Purdue Farms, the largest operator in the poultry belt in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, says it has an innovative new plan for dealing with the chicken manure that is blamed for seriously polluting the Chesapeake Bay and underground well water. Under the plan, praised by environmentalists, the company will build […]
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Owl in a Day's Work
Arizona has put the brakes on 53 planned state highway projects — nearly a billion dollars worth — because of a court order to protect the habitat of the endangered pygmy owl. The move by the state Department of Transportation followed an Oct. 8 court ruling that sided with enviros and prohibited the U.S. Army […]
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Don't Follow This Leader
While governments in Europe and Japan are considering far-reaching proposals to comply with the Kyoto climate change treaty, including raising taxes and promoting emissions-trading systems, strong treaty opposition in the U.S. could kill the agreement. Many observers say that even if the U.S. does ratify the treaty, the nation won’t be ready to begin making […]
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John Hoskinson, Surfrider Foundation
John Hoskinson is the communications director for the Surfrider Foundation. Monday, 18 Oct 1999 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. Dear Diary: Today I got a pimple … YUCK! And Jenny Pitrizoni pulled my hair and said that I was ugly … Oh, wait … wrong diary. I’ll start again. I thought I’d start my week of entries […]
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Wonder Twin Powers: Deregulate
As electric utility deregulation gets rolling in California and Pennsylvania, enviros are anxiously watching to see whether consumers, who now have a choice about their power providers, will opt to pay a little more for renewable energy. In California, about 1 percent, or some 116,000 homes, have gone to green power since the market opened […]
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Soil and Trouble
Nations in Sub-Saharan Africa may be unable to feed 60 percent of a projected population of 1 billion by 2025 unless dramatic steps are taken to improve the fertility and quality of soil in the region, according to a report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization released on Saturday, World Food Day. The capacity […]
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Climate Out of Control
Large reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions could have a modest effect in slowing climate change, delaying some of the effects by 50 to 100 years, according to a report by scientists at the Hadley Centre for Climate Protection and Research, part of the U.K. Meteorological Office. However, to achieve this delay, emissions cuts of 50 to […]
