Our Planet Weekly from E, the environmental magazine...
THIS WEEK
Bush Clashes with Democrats over Oil Politics
In a curious turn of political events, President Bush has been lambasting Democrats for playing politics over oil. The issue in question is whether or not to open America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help offset skyrocketing prices at the gas pump for consumers.
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Environmentalists Rally to Protect Canada's Boreal Forest
In an effort to reform logging practices in Canada's 1.4 billion acre boreal forest, environmentalists are asking consumer products manufacturers and retailers to buy only wood, pulp and paper from logging companies certified as sustainable extractors.
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European Union Allows Biotech Imports After Six-Year Ban
Overturning its six-year old ban on genetically engineered foods, the European Union (EU) last week changed course and approved the import of an insect-resistant strain of corn developed by Swiss company Syngenta.
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International Treaty Phases Out Toxins
Last week an international treaty mandating the phase-out of a dozen highly toxic chemicals, including DDT and PCBs, took effect with 50 signatories despite lack of formal involvement by the United States.
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Reporting by Roddy Scheer
COMMENTARY
Design for Green Living
"The natural building movement is where organic food was 20 years ago," says Joe Kennedy, co-editor of the new book The Art of Natural Building. "Now we have exponential growth, and we're riding an intense wave." By Jim Motavalli
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GREEN LIVING
Credit Where It’s Due
Green Credit Unions Do Well by Doing Good
While many of us may feel we don’t have the extra money, let alone the spare time, to take the plunge into the vortex of socially responsible investing (SRI), just about everyone has a bank account. A developing trend in banking allows customers’ deposits to be used to fund low-interest loans to socially responsible small businesses and nonprofits. Banking customers looking to "do well by doing good" can choose from several different types of socially responsible financial institutions offering such deposit-based community investment and sustainable development programs. By Roddy Scheer
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EARTH TALK
Week of 5/23/2004
What is the safest way to get a tan?
Is the world running out of oil?
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FEATURES
The Paper Chase
The paperless office is still a distant dream. In the interim, we should be recycling more and developing alternatives to wood-based paper. While many futurists predicted that we’d be enjoying the paperless office around this time, Americans are still at the epicenter of a paper blizzard. Were you under the impression that the electronic age would free us from all that? According to The Myth of the Paperless Office, a company’s use of e-mail causes an average 40 percent increase in paper consumption. The demand for ream after ream of white paper is putting a huge strain not only on America’s forests, but the world’s. And it’s forcing the environmental movement to consider the alternatives. By Jim Motavalli
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Paperless Version of E
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A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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