News And Press
Cool Fuel’: Brew It Yourself
July 1, 2008
by: Lon Aratani
publication: washington post
“Gabe Schwartzman, a tall, lanky high school senior from Montgomery County, can fill up the tank of his 1980 Volvo sedan for less than $20.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063002280.html
STONE GROUND GOODNESS
June 30, 2008
by: Lucy Martin
publication: The Environment Report
“Today, we buy whatever we need from the store. But what would happen if we had to make our own butter or spin our own wool? We needed these kinds of skills to survive. And many of them took centuries to learn. Some people are working to keep these skills alive. Lucy Martin followed a man who works in a historic flour mill. He’s taken the time to learn old skills that he says still matter today:”
Companies try to cash in on green trend, but should consumers buy it?
June 28, 2008
by: Warren Cornwall
publication: The Seattle Times
“The idea that sex sells is now sharing space with the fact that green sells. Big time. Corporate America has discovered that it tugs at customers’ heartstrings these days. People seem to have a big appetite for all things green.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008022511_greenmarketing28m.html
Envisioning a World of $200-a-barrel Oil
June 28, 2008
by: Martin Zimmerman
publication: LA times
“Three months ago, when oil was around $108 a barrel, a few Wall Street analysts began predicting that it could rise to $200. Many observers scoffed at the forecasts as sensational, or motivated by a desire among energy companies and investors to drive prices higher.
But with oil closing above $140 a barrel Friday, more experts are taking those predictions seriously — and shuddering at the inflation-fueled chaos that $200-a-barrel crude could bring. They foresee fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-oil28-2008jun28,0,2080126,full.story
Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects
June 27, 2008
by: Dan Frosch
publication: nytimes
“DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.”
Debating Coal’s Cost in Rural Va.
June 25, 2008
by: David A. Farenthold
publication: washington post
“If it were possible to build a coal-fueled power plant in Virginia without controversy, it would happen here. In the state’s Appalachian southwest, there is coal in the hills, coal in the rail cars, and coal in family histories that stretch back to picks and shovels.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401552.html?hpid=topnews
First U.S. Sale of Offshore Wind Power Signed
June 24, 2008
by:
publication: Env. News Service
“NEWARK, Delaware, June 24, 2008 (ENS) - The first offshore wind farm to be developed in the United States has already sold one-third of the power that will be generated during its first 25 years of operation before a turbine is even placed in the water.”
BIG PLANS FOR BIG LIVESTOCK FARM 
Corporations are taking a new approach to farming. They’re combining ethanol production with feeding animals. The corporations need land, water, and a willing community. They turn to economically depressed rural communities and promise jobs. But some researchers think these rural communities could end up with more problems than benefits.\
http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php3?story_id=4065
TURNING GARBAGE INTO GAS
June 23, 2008
by: Shawn Allee
publication: GRLC
“Trash is usually out of sight, out of mind, but occasionally garbage grabs attention � especially when it starts costing a lot. Landfill fees are rising, and with higher costs to ship or truck garbage, a lot of communities are scrounging for alternatives to landfills. Reporter Shawn Allee found one community that hopes a trendy fuel might solve its garbage problem:”
A Green Coal Baron?
June 22, 2008
by: Clive Thompson
publication: nytimes
“When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity you might expect in an energy C.E.O. Instead, he lives to brainstorm. He spends more than half his time on the road, a perennial fixture at wonky gatherings like the Davos World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative, corralling “clean energy” thinkers and listening eagerly to their ideas.”
The New Trophy Home, Small and Ecological
June 22, 2008
By: Felicity Berringer
nytimes
For the high-profile crowd that turned out to celebrate a new home in Venice, Calif., the attraction wasn’t just the company and the architectural detail. The house boasted the builders’ equivalent of a three-star Michelin rating: a LEED platinum certificate.
Latest Honda Runs on Hydrogen, Not Petroleum
June 17, 2008
by: Martin Fackler
publication: nytimes
“The world’s first hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle for mass production was wheeled off a Honda assembly line in Japan.”
Bee Species Outnumber Mammals And Birds Combined
June 13, 2008
By:Staff Writers
TerraDaily
Scientists have discovered that there are more bee species than previously thought. In the first global accounting of bee species in over a hundred years, John S. Ascher, a research scientist in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, compiled online species pages and distribution maps for more than 19,200 described bee species, showcasing the diversity of these essential pollinators.
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Bee_Species_Outnumber_Mammals_And_Birds_Combined_999.html
The New York Times Green Issue
June 13, 2008
By:special issue
nytimes
This is a special issue of the newyork times concentrating on”green” news
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20Act-t.html
Stanford Biologist receives Sophie Prize
June 12, 2008
by: AP
publication: LA times
“OSLO, NORWAY — American biologist and writer Gretchen C. Daily accepted Norway’s $100,000 Sophie Prize on Thursday for her efforts to show the economic benefits of protecting the environment.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-stanford13-2008jun13,0,2664175.story
Six Months Later, Start-Ups Find Their Goals Are Elusive
June 12, 2008
By: Brent Bowers
nytimes
This column profiled three new small businesses at the end of last year and the start of this year — Sweet Bites Bakery and Café in West Acton, Mass., started by Caitlin Adler; Tina Ericson’s Mamaisms Gear, in Wilmington, N.C.; and Jeff Takle’s RentingYourHome.com in Somerville, Mass. — with the promise to report on their progress after six months and again after one year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/business/smallbusiness/12hunt.html?ref=business
Chemical Law Has Global Impact
June 12, 2008
By:Lyndsey Layton
washingtonpost
Europe this month rolled out new restrictions on makers of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems, changes that are forcing U.S. industries to find new ways to produce a wide range of everyday products.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103569.html
How to Cope With Hard Times
June 10, 2008
By: Paula B. Brown
nytimes
For small businesses that are trying to ride out an uncertain economy, all solid suggestions about cutting costs, reducing the amount of time it takes to collect a receivable, or finding forgotten tax breaks are much needed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/business/smallbusiness/10toolkit.html?fta=y
Green’ Job Market Bucks Credit Crunch Gloom
June 10 2008
By:Michael Szabo
Planet Ark
LONDON - The ‘Green’ job market is thriving despite lay-offs across the financial and property sectors caused by the global credit crunch, environmental recruiters said on Friday.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=48709
Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest
June 10, 2008
By:David Streitfeld and Keith Bradsher
nytimes
In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/business/10planting.html
The Geology of Cool
June 8, 2008
By:C. J. Hughes
nytimes
…burrowing is exactly what geothermal heat pumps do to reduce temperatures. They work because the ground hundreds of feet down remains a fairly constant 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/realestate/08post.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Guerilla Gardening
June 8, 2008
By:Jon Mooallem
nytimes
Reynolds defines guerrilla gardening as “the cultivation of someone else’s land without permission.” He didn’t invent the term or the tactic but has become, as he puts it, “a self-appointed publicist for the movement” and the breadth of impulses and ideologies behind it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08guerrilla-t.html
Boosting Health With Local Food
June 6, 2008
By:Alan Zale
nytimes
The local food movement typically has been about improving the health of the planet. Buying locally means less fuel burned to transport food, which means less pollution. But now researchers are trying to find out if eating locally farmed food is also better for your health.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/boosting-health-with-local-food/
Tomato Catch-Up
June 5, 2008
By:Anne River
nytimes
GROWING great tomatoes is like having a baby. You either start your own from seed, or adopt little ones through an organization you have seriously investigated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/garden/05garden.html
Time Presses the Gardener, if Not the Garden
June 1, 2008
By:Perdita A Buchan
nytimes
Gardeners will tell you smugly that you can’t have a garden overnight, although I have seen them put in pretty fast, mature trees and all, in upscale California developments. But for the rest of us the garden is a process, and our relationship to that process depends on our own age.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/01Rhome.html
Seeking a Few Good Shepherds
May 18, 2008
By:Susan Saulny
nytimes
Children everywhere love prizes and fuzzy animals, right? The North Dakota shepherding industry is counting on it.
Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer
April 30, 2008
By:Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin
nytimes
Some kinds of fertilizer have nearly tripled in price in the last year, keeping farmers from buying all they need. That is one of many factors contributing to a rise in food prices that, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program, threatens to push tens of millions of poor people into malnutrition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/business/worldbusiness/30fertilizer.html
Leafonomics
April 20, 2008
By:Scott L. Malcomson
nytimes
In poor countries around the world, there’s money being made by cutting down forests. Should these countries be paid not to cut down their forests? Such a curious transfer of wealth may represent the next twist in the politics of climate change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20wwln-essay-t.html?fta=y
Greener Pastures
April 20, 2008
By:Edward Lewine
nytimes
Bill Nye, the television host and science educator. lives in a retrofitted, eco-friendly, 1,300-square-foot, 1939 stucco home in Los Angeles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/opinion/nyregionopinions/16LIsteinberg.html
Solid State Steps Out of the Shadows
April 9, 2008
By:Ian Austin
nytimes
SOLID-STATE technology has long performed many electrical tasks. But with lighting, Thomas Edison’s bulb still largely rules. Solid-state lighting, for the most part, has been relegated to niches like automobile taillights, Christmas decorations, patio lanterns and the humble flashlight. That may be changing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09light.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
On the Irish Coast, Reconsidering Energy From the Town Up
April 9, 2008
By:Karen Freeman
nytimes
The goal is innovation on a local scale, developing clean energy sources and reducing energy demand in a 1.5-square-mile site called a Sustainable Energy Zone. The project is part of a European Union program to encourage pilot projects that can be scaled up to regional or national levels. Dundalk is working with two other towns, in Austria and Switzerland, on a total budget of about $40 million, said Aideen O’Hora, the project manager for Sustainable Energy Ireland, the government agency in charge. But the biggest changes are taking place in Dundalk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09town.html
Development That Is Mindful of the Planet and the Budget
April 3, 2008
By:Tim McKeough
nytimes
The David and Joyce Dinkins Gardens, a new affordable housing project on West 153rd Street in Harlem, was built green on a budget. Paul Freitag, the director of development at Jonathan Rose Companies, which built the project with Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, said its $19.5 million cost was “just a fraction more than a conventional affordable housing project” of a similar size.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/garden/03green.html
Majoring in Renewable Energy
March 26, 2008
By:Keith Schneider
nytimes
AS business and industry are taking more interest in renewable energy, academia is not far behind. Anticipating increased demand for new technical and design skills, colleges and universities across the nation are offering degree programs in the field.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26degree.html?ref=education
The Graying of the Greens: With Aging Memberships, Environmental Groups Reach Out To Younger Members
February 19, 2008
By:Steve Grant
Hartford Courant
Something’s happened to Connecticut’s venerable environmental groups. They’re aging, often dominated by members and leaders well into their 50s and beyond. Greens gone gray.
http://portlandscw.trb.com/news/environment/stv-gl-graying-greens,0,4287839.story
For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home
February 16, 2008
By:Patricia Leigh Brown
nytimes
Move over, Tupperware. The EcoMom party has arrived, with its ever-expanding “to do” list that includes preparing waste-free school lunches; lobbying for green building codes; transforming oneself into a “locovore,” eating locally grown food; and remembering not to idle the car when picking up children from school (if one must drive). Here, the small talk is about the volatile compounds emitted by dry-erase markers at school.
2 Reports at Odds On Biotech Crops
February 14, 2008
By:Rick Weiss
washingtonpost
Dueling reports released yesterday — one by a consortium largely funded by the biotech industry and the other by a pair of environmental and consumer groups — came to those diametrically different conclusions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303639.html
Gates Foundation to Give $306 Million to Assist Poor Farmers
January 25, 2008
By:Celia W. Dugger
nytimes
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has spent billions of dollars to improve the health of poor people in developing countries, will reach into its deep pockets on Friday for a newer philanthropic mission: to increase the productivity of impoverished farmers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/world/25gates.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
(Solar) Power to the People Is Not So Easily Achieved
January 23, 2008
By:Jim Dwyer
nytimes
One day nearly four years ago, it suddenly seemed like a good idea to give solar electricity a try at home — home, for me, being an apartment house in Washington Heights, alias upstate Manhattan. The price of electricity was climbing. A war was being fought, if not over oil, then certainly over the ground the oil was in. Solar technology had proven that it could generate real power.
Nature and Ice Wine
January 21, 2008
By:Ann Murray
The Environment report
Sunnyvale Homeowners Told to Cut Redwoods that Block Solar PanelsGroups Sue over Modified Beets“
http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php3?story_id=3853
Researchers Challenge Water-Flow Model
January 18, 2008
By:Cornelia Dean
nytimes
…researchers at Franklin and Marshall College are challenging it. They say the streams studied by their geological predecessors were not “natural archetypes” but rather the artifacts of 18th- and 19th-century dam building and deforestation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/science/18rivers.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
The Battle Over Bottles VS. Tap Water
January 17, 2008
By:Tony Azios
The Christian Science Moniter
Even as bottled water companies continue to see increased sales, the recent raft of negative media coverage and activist campaigns against the industry has caused a product once seen as fundamentally green and healthy to lose some of its luster. Now, brand-name bottlers are scrambling to reposition their products by upping their green credentials to fend off further consumer backlash fermenting in churches, college campuses, and city halls across the country.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0117/p15s03-sten.html
ID system for cattle draws ire
January 14, 2008
By:Nicole Gaouette
LA times
A Bush administration initiative, the National Animal Identification System is meant to provide a modern tool for tracking disease outbreaks within 48 hours, whether natural or the work of a bioterrorist. Most farm animals, even exotic ones such as llamas, will eventually be registered. Information will be kept on every farm, ranch or stable. And databases will record every animal movement from birth to slaughterhouse, including trips to the vet and county fairs.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/14/nation/na-animals14
Report Finds Rising Tide of Green Financing
January 9, 2008
By:Stephen Leahy
IPS
After much urging and dire threats, the global economy, much like a stubborn and temperamental toddler, is starting to reluctantly turn towards sustainability, according to the “State of the World 2008″ report released by the Worldwatch Institute Wednesday.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40736
Up From the Mines in Tennessee
December 14, 2007
By:Chris Dixon
nytimes
The land around the mining town, in the southeast corner of Tennessee overlooking Georgia and North Carolina, was literally stripped bare for 40 square miles. “In Georgia and Tennessee, all you could see was the red hills,” she said. “But then you could look way over to North Carolina and see the greenery. They were far enough away that they didn’t get what we called ‘the gas.’ ”
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/travel/escapes/14copperhill.html?pagewanted=1
Home Construction VS. Demolition
December 10, 2007
By:Joyce Kryszak
The Environment report
Every year, cities across the country spend millions of dollars tearing down condemned houses and hauling away tons of debris to landfills. But progressive engineers and community activists have found a way to reverse that wasteful process. A demolition method called “deconstruction” uses human power instead of the wrecking ball to preserve and reuse everything from floor joists to the kitchen sink. Joyce Kryszak puts on her hard hat and takes us to one deconstruction site:
http://www.environmentreport.org/transcript.php3?story_id=3776
If It’s Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener
December 9, 2007
By:Andrew Martin
nytimes
…researchers from the University of California, Davis, who have started asking provocative questions about the carbon footprint of food. Those questions threaten to undermine some of the feel-good locavore story line, not to mention my weekend forays for produce. (A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact of human activities on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/business/yourmoney/09feed.html
New Push For ‘Green’ Jobs
December 3, 2007
By:Kristi Coale
The Environment Report
A new employment program is tying the need low-income people have for good-paying work to the imperative of meeting the nation’s growing energy demands. The “green jobs” movement trains out-of-work people and former blue-collar workers to install solar, wind and other alternative energy systems at homes and businesses. Kristi Coale reports what started as a local program might soon be coming to the rest of the nation:
http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php3?story_id=3755
Farmyard Still Quenches a Thirst for Local Spirits
November 25, 2007
By:Susan Saulny
nytimes
On the heels of the microbrewing boom, new microdistilleries are thriving from coast to coast. And some of the latest and quirkiest entrants to the industry are in places like Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Mr. Fox’s barn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/us/25distilleries.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Twisting Roads Take You to the Heart of Appalachia
July 27, 2007
by: Keith Mulvihill
publication: nytimes
“TOM Cassidy never married and spent much of his adult life living alone in a one-room cabin in eastern Tennessee. It’s said that he once commented that all a man needed was “a cot, stove, dresser, chair, fiddle and a pistol”— lucky for him, since that’s all his diminutive abode could hold. After Mr. Cassidy died in 1989, his cabin (with a 1950s Kitty Wells publicity photo still tacked to the wall) was boarded up and abandoned. But, happily, not forgotten.”
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/travel/escapes/27american.html?emc=eta1
Future Energy That Generated Profits Today
July 21, 2007
By:Conrad De Aenlle
nytimes
ALTERNATIVE energy is considered to be good for the environment and good for the soul, but not so good as a way to make money. Generating power from renewable sources like wind, the sun and the earth’s own heat has a reputation for being unprofitable without government subsidies or sky-high energy prices. But for shareholders of a specialist mutual fund, it has been an easy way to generate smart returns.
The Zero Energy Solution
May 20, 2007
By:Mark Svenvold
nytimes
A sign at the head of Strizki’s long gravel driveway said, “Welcome to the first solar-hydrogen residence in North America.” Strizki, the 50-year-old director of residential and commercial systems for Advanced Solar Products, a solar installation company, designed a backyard power plant that provides all the house’s energy, using a combination of solar panels and solar-generated hydrogen.
Size Up Your Carbon Footprint, and Take Steps to Shrink It
March 17, 2007
By:
The Independent
Estimating your household emissions, can help reduce their impact, says David Prosser
Study Says Tapping Granite Could Unleash Energy Source
January 23, 2007
By:Andrew C. Revkin
nytimes
The United States could generate as much electricity by 2050 as that flowing today from all of the country’s nuclear power plants by developing technologies that tap heat locked in deep layers of granite, according to a new study commissioned by the Energy Department.
Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun
April 14, 2006
By:Jim Wilson
nytimes
Today, solar cells are a tiny niche in the energy business — rapidly expanding to be sure, but without the potential for exponential gains in performance and falling costs that are hallmarks of the computer world.
Tall Tales of Appalachia
May 10, 2003
by: John O’Brien
publication: nytimes
“CBS is developing a reality TV series modeled after ”The Beverly Hillbillies,” the 60’s sitcom. A poor family from a remote corner of southern Appalachia will be transported to a California mansion, the ensuing comic antics shown to America.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EFD7143FF933A25756C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=
Havens; Cape Cod Too Much? How about Appalachia?
April 19, 2008
by: Edward Wyatt
publication: nytimes
“APPALACHIA is not yet the new Florida, but it could be making a run for it. Over the last decade, some of the fastest growth in seasonal and second homes has come not along the sunny shores of Florida or in the lush oases of the California desert.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE4DA143FF93AA25757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=
Appalachia Family Reunions on Wane
June 23, 1996
by:
publication: nytimes
“Alma Watts Waddell surveyed her annual family reunion recently with the kind of tender smile she might bestow on an ailing relative. Four score of her cousins sat at long tables at the community center in the nearby Appalachia town of Hindman, eating potluck food and talking about old times. The Watts family gathering is still among the most cherished weekends of the year for Mrs. Waddell, 60, but she has been watching it wither for years.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3D6133DF930A1575AC0A960958260&sec=&spon=
