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I’m a Lumberjack and I’m O.K.?
To the great joy of Canadian loggers, British Columbia’s Liberal government unveiled a plan this week to streamline the approval process for forest cutting by April 2003. “The entire framework asks for a lot of trust and faith in the activities of forest corporations,” said University of British Columbia forestry professor George Hoberg. Forest Minister […]
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Saving Grace
The “energy crisis” may be a distant memory, but Californians are still saving juice. After the blackouts and price hikes of 2001, utility customer sales fell 6 percent to 9 percent due to conservation efforts. Today, from 40 percent to 90 percent of the drop persists — and some experts say the shift could be […]
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Anthony Flaccavento, Appalachian Sustainable Development
Anthony Flaccavento is the executive director of Appalachian Sustainable Development, a nonprofit dedicated to developing healthy, diverse, and ecologically sound economic opportunities in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Monday, 4 Nov 2002 ABINGDON, Va. Early Monday morning, at the onset of November. A cup of strong coffee and a to-do list start this day off, […]
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Emission: Very, Very Possible
After two days and a night of negotiations at a climate change conference in New Delhi, India, developing countries left with a victory on Friday: The final wording of the main document coming out the meeting did not require the countries to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions at any point in the future. […]
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Eye Spy
In an effort to catch environmental violators with their pants down, a deep-pocketed environmentalist armed with a digital camera and a helicopter is snapping photos of every inch of California’s 1,100-mile coast and posting them on the Internet. The two-week-old website will eventually contain about 13,000 images, all taken in 2002 by Ken Adelman with […]
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Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow, but Not Fonder
The Bush administration indicated last week that it might withdraw its support from a landmark international agreement on population over concerns that it promotes abortion. At a U.N. meeting last Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, U.S. State Department official Louise Oliver said the 1994 Cairo accord included terms such as “reproductive services” and “reproductive health care” […]
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Sunken Ships, Loose Lips
Toxic goop leaking from more than one thousand sunken World War II vessels is threatening fish stocks, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and other tourist destinations. The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme has begun cataloguing the risks posed by the 1,080 wrecks, which are loaded with such toxic goodies as chemicals, ordnance, and oil. Last year, […]
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99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing
Five southern African nations are requesting permission to resume ivory trading at an international conference that begins today in Santiago, Chile. They are asking the 160 countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to allow them to clear out stockpiles — mainly from elephants that died naturally — and to […]
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Jews for Cheeses
Seven ultra-Orthodox Jewish families have signed on to create what is likely the world’s first organic, kosher, communal farm. Following the tenets of the Torah and Talmud, the farmers will not pick fruit from their orchards for the first three years; they will let their land lie fallow every seventh year and will only plant […]
