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Riding Alone in My Automobile

The average American is spending about 36 hours a year in traffic, up from 11 hours in 1982, according to a study released today by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. Based on 1999 data, the most recent year for which such figures were available, the report found that the average Los Angeles […]

Royal, Copenhagen

Officials in Copenhagen, Denmark, helped to inaugurate the world’s largest offshore windmill park this month. The park has a capacity of 40 megawatts of electricity — four times more than the second-largest offshore windmill park in Sweden — and will supply about 3 percent of the city’s energy, powering the equivalent of 32,000 homes. In […]

My Mother's Left Foot

Michelle Long, Transparency Center

Michelle Long recently cofounded the Transparency Center, a nonprofit organization focused on facilitating transparent, stakeholder-inclusive models of trade. Sunday, 6 May 2001 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Hello. Welcome to my world and my work. Opening my day to all of you presents an interesting opportunity — and also a challenge. In the challenge of reducing what […]

Prez and the New Power Generation

President Bush launched a two-week campaign yesterday to prepare the country for the recommendations of the secretive White House energy task force. Bush said, “What people need to hear loud and clear is that we’re running out of energy in America.” Building on a comment made by Vice President Cheney earlier this week that conservation […]

Birdland?

Some of the most popular songbirds in the U.K. are being sighted much less frequently, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said yesterday. A survey carried out by the group’s members found that the numbers of starlings and house sparrows have halved in the last 10 years. The group blamed the problem on […]

The 2 Percent Solution

Ford said yesterday that a team of top executives would begin looking at ways to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions. Ford’s second-annual corporate citizenship report estimated that its vehicles and factories contribute about 2 percent of all such emissions caused by people. Still, Ford said it did not support the Kyoto treaty on climate […]

Whassup? … True, True

More than a dozen environmental groups sued the federal government yesterday, saying its plan to manage hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest fails to provide adequate protections for salmon. Todd True, an attorney with the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, said, “We have a lot of ways to meet our energy […]

Think Globally, Log Locally

The Bush administration said last night that it will let stand President Clinton’s rule to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 millions acres of national forestland. Sort of. It seems the White House intends to give local officials (the folks who don’t like the rule) the power to modify the ban on a case-by-case basis […]

10 ways to phatten up environmentalism

Dear Editor: Good idea about sexying the magazine up, in terms of sexyness. I agree that this environmental stuff needs to be more “now” — just this a.m., my 15-year-old daughter saw me recycling a few back issues of Recycling and said, “You’re a pathetic little man and you don’t even know what emo music […]