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Lawsuit over New Orleans landfill dropped
Last week, Wayne Curtis reported on the battle over a landfill in New Orleans. The landfill was set to close today, but a lawsuit being heard last Friday could have kept it open. Seems that the lawsuit was dropped, though, and the closure will go forward as originally planned.
Tip o' the cap to our very own Sarah Kraybill for asking the logical question, "Hey, what happened with that lawsuit?"
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Umbra on carpooling to a reunion
Dear Umbra, You have told us, in no uncertain terms, that traveling by train is better ecologically than traveling by car. Several members of my family plan to carpool to an upcoming family reunion 600 miles away. I have considered trying to talk them into taking the train instead, but face the following problem: It […]
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Conservation International chats with Stone Gossard
Earlier today, Conservation International hosted a live chat with Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. I would be blogging it just in time for y'all to send in your own questions, if it weren't for that pesky EST after the 1 p.m. (Gah!) So instead, I offer the transcript from the not-so-live-anymore chat.
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Jason Wentworth, eco-friendly laundromat owner, answers questions
Jason Wentworth. What work do you do? I am the owner, along with my wife Sandrine, of the Washboard Eco Laundry in Portland, Maine. How does it relate to the environment? We have attempted to create a new model for the coin-laundry industry by designing our business around the goal of minimizing the environmental impact […]
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Pardon Me Boys, Is That the Chattanooga Cough-Cough?
Add diesel locomotives to the list of things killing you Recently, researchers discovered they’d been a little off in their estimates of how much smog-forming pollution diesel locomotives generate. How off? Turns out by 2030 the trains will be producing about twice what was previously estimated — 800,000 tons of nitrogen oxide and 25,000 tons […]
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Won’t You Be My Labor?
Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-sector jobs […]
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Switch Getters
Industries pull the switch on mercury switches The steel and auto industries have agreed to pay $2 million each to remove mercury-containing light switches from millions of scrapyard-bound vehicles. The deal will reduce U.S. annual mercury pollution by at least 5 percent over the next 15 years, according to U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson. Bully […]
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Deliver an Inconvenient Truth
In this great Rolling Stone interview last month, Al Gore said that he plans to train 1,000 volunteers to deliver the Inconvenient Truth slide show across the country. I immediately began scouring the web looking for information on how to apply, but found nothing. Finally, I called Al and Tipper's office in Tennessee and they gave me an email address to which I summarily sent a resume and cover letter. Yesterday I received a reply.
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Dymaxion vehicle
A car that seats eleven, reaches 120 mph, can turn on a dime, and gets 30 miles per gallon.
In 1933.
Now that's damn interesting.
