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Green U.(E Word)

Mar 01, 2008; Moss, Doug ... I wasn't a very enlightened college student and, like many today, I spent most of my out-of-class time partying until all hours of the morning. I was almost totally detached from ecological or social issues of any kind. I read The Greening of America for all economics class (because I had ...

What stinkin' Green Jobs?(ADVICE & DISSENT: Letters from our readers)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2008; Weeks, Kaitlin ... In Brita Belli's article "Welcome to Green-Collar America," (feature, November/December 2007) she said that it's important to "pick a niche without any sense of ideological blinders." As a newcomer to environmental consciousness, my niche is recycling. My difficulties have to do with the ...

Know thy plastics.(ADVICE & DISSENT: Letters from our readers)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2008; Harty, Leslie ... In regards to your article ("Paper or Plastic," Currents, November/ December 2007) I wish to point out that EPI technology is an oxy-degradable that often leaves heavy chemicals behind. The German Plastics Association (GPA) has declared that oxydegradables are not to be considered a ...

A poop by any other name.(ADVICE & DISSENT: Letters from our readers)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2008; Parsons, Victoria ... Is there a reason your story on sewage heat ("Feel the (Sewage) Heat!", In Brief, November/ December 2007) failed to mention the word "nutrients," and called for secondary wastewater treatment that would remove "ingredients?" In Tampa Bay and most urban estuaries, nutrients from ...

From plate to planet.(ADVICE & DISSENT: Letters from our readers)(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2008; Pollard-Post, Lindsay ... Thank you for your article "Cheeseless and Loving It" (Your Health, November/December 2007). Like Sarah Florez, I decided to go vegan after I learned how animals are abused and cruelly killed on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. But, as your article mentions, going vegan is also one of ...

The high cost of coal-to-liquids.

Mar 01, 2008; Youker, Darrin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, more than a century's worth of coal mining has soiled the landscape. After hundreds of mining companies processed the coal, they left behind mountains of scraps that stick out like black blemishes on the picturesque ...

Great lakes invaders.

Mar 01, 2008; McClelland, Edward ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Every year, the St. Lawrence Seaway welcomes hundreds of foreign freighters carrying steel to Great Lakes ports. But these "salties," as the oceangoing ships are called, often bring a less-welcome cargo. Since the Seaway began operating in 1957, dozens of ...

The ABC's of unrelenting waste.(aluminum beverage cans )

Mar 01, 2008; Spillman, Pat ... Last June, the aluminum industry reported that the 2006 recycling rate for aluminum beverage cans (known as ABCs) was 51.6 percent. Slightly better than half of ABC cans are recycled today, but it s a figure hardly worth boasting about. In the 1990s more than 60 percent of them were ...

Artificial turf wars.

Mar 01, 2008 ... Both athletes and environmentalists agree that artificial turf playing fields provide a good, green alternative to grass. Here's why: artificial turf doesn't need fertilizer or pesticide-intensive upkeep. It also doesn't suffer as much from the wear and tear that running, jumping, kicking ...

Iceland's abundance of energy: can Iceland build a future on hydrogen and geothermal?(CURRENTS)

Mar 01, 2008; Motavalli, Jim ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "We see Iceland as the rids laboratory for a decarbonized future, says Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, the country s foreign minister and former mayor of Reykjavik. Of course, many countries say similar things, but Iceland has a head start, because it's ...

Debunking desalination: the "Miracle Process" that can't cure the world's water woes.(CURRENTS)

Mar 01, 2008; Brannan, Paul ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With population growing and fresh Water resources running dry, desalination seems like the perfect solution to the world's increasing thirst. Just take some sea water, or brackish water from an underground source, and remove the salt. What could be ...

Burning down the house (and Trees): fire spending overwhelms forest service budget.(CURRENTS)

Mar 01, 2008; McDaniel, Josh ... "The trees are turning red and dying, and the public expects us to do something about it," says Phil Bowden, a specialist with the White River National Forest in Colorado. Bowden now spends almost all of his time studying the bark beetle outbreak--which has left hundreds of thousand of ...

Curing congestion: variable toll pricing gets cars off the road.(CURRENTS)

Mar 01, 2008; Knoblauch, Jessica A. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A cross the country; air quality in big cities suffers from an onslaught of daily commuters in cars. Some government officials are tackling traffic congestion head on. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a congestion pricing plan last year that ...

Green Olympic dreams.(UPDATES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008; Belli, Brita ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] China is giving itself a green makeover for the 2008 Summer Olympics to be held in Beijing (see "Through the Smoke," Currents, May/June 2004). The Olympic organizing committee and American agencies are working closely with the International Center for ...

The plug-ins are coming.(UPDATES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008; Motavalli, Jim ... The Detroit Auto Show last January confirmed hat plug-in hybrids (with extended all-electric range up to about 40 miles) will soon be on American roads (see "The Hot Hybrids," Consumer News, November/December 2005). The biggest news was that Toyota confirmed it will have a commercial ...

The slaughter continues.(UPDATES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008; Motavalli, Jim ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Animal activists have fought hard to eliminate horse slaughter in the U.S. (see "The Killing Floor," feature, May/June 2006). Under H.R. 2744, funding was removed for U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) inspectors at slaughterhouses. The Bush USDA countered ...

Cleaner, Greener U.: students are driving the campus climate movement, fighting Big Coal and putting legislators on notice.

Mar 01, 2008; Belli, Brita ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Climate change is our generation's civil rights movement," says Brianna Cayo Cotter, communications director for the Energy Action Coalition, swilling from a tall cup of coffee. Cotter talked fast and raked her fingers through her thick, wavy hair, ...

Going with the flow: colleges get serious about saving water.

Mar 01, 2008; Cure, Katherine ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Colleges and universities consume huge quantities of water through dorms, cafeterias, athletic facilities and in maintaining their rolling green grounds. Recognizing the impact they have on a fast-dwindling resource, many schools have made small ...

Big ideas: college students create their own sustainable solutions.

Mar 01, 2008; Query, Shawn ... A thermal solar network using parabolic reflectors and old car parts. A oat that filters its own wastewater, has on-site wind power and educates passengers about the polluted waterway on which it floats. A car that runs on natural gas from local dairy cows. These are not breakthroughs from ...

The green nitty gritty: whittling down the college list.

Mar 01, 2008 ... With all the posh accoutrements on campuses today, students are as likely to choose a school for its gourmet food and weight rooms as for its academic programs. The green-minded student has just as many factors to consider when facing the mountain of applications. Here are a few schools' ...