rhetorics of sustainability:
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sustainability in the news

April 3, 2006 UC Berkeley first to offer organic dining options (UCBerkeley News)
Aug. 2, 2006 Oil company sustainability rating (SocialFunds)
Aug. 16, 2006 GMO grass found in wild (NY Times)
Aug. 23, 2006 Washington campuses are going green (Seattle P-I)
Aug. 28, 2006 Campus continues march to greener pastures (WSU Evergreen)
Summer 2006 Sustainability Watch (.pdf report)
Sept. 5, 2006 Coca-Cola learns tough lesson about corporate sustainability (Grist Magazine)
Sept. 8, 2006 Evangelicals, environmentalists unite against global warming (Associated Press)
Sept. 12, 2006 Undergraduate sustainability minor (Univ. Minnesota)
Sept. 14, 2006 Establishing, revising, and using "categorical exclusions" under the NEPA (Council on Environmental Quality's NEPA Task Force proposal)
  WWF promotes sustainable forestry in Africa (WebWire)
Sept. 15, 2006 California, global leader in attempt to curb greenhouse gases (NY Times)
Sept. 16, 2006 Student sustainable design competition (Science News)
  Sept. 16, 2006 WHO supports use of DDT to reduce malaria (NY Times)
  UN officials support forum on migration (LA Times)
Sept. 18, 2006 Organic Consumers Association press release on E. coli contamination of bagged
Sept. 19, 2006 A plague of suicides on India's farms (NY Times)
Sept. 20, 2006 "Deep ecology" and civil liberties collide with border fence plan (NY Times)
  World Bank careless about development in Africa (allAfrica.com)
Sept. 21, 2006 British Food Standards Agency does not endorse organic milk as healthier, despite scientific studies (Daily Mail)
  NY mayor to make major sustainability announcement in California with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? (StreetsBlog)
  Royal Society says Exxon misrepresents climate issues (NY Times)
  Global warming subject of directors of big companies (NY Times)
  E. coli infections linked to spinach may be due to livestock industry (NY Times Op-Ed)
  California sues 6 auto companies over global warming (NY Times)
  China to build sustainable city (Financial Times Deutschland)
Sept. 22, 2006 Possible risks to the environment of biofuel crops (Nature's Policy Forum)
  Wider use of DDT may not be a good idea (NY Times Op-Ed)
  As children suffer, parents agonize over spinach (NY Times)
  Until E. coli uutbreak, Natural Selection Foods was a model of farming achievement - the farmers (Washington Post)
Sept. 23, 2006 Clinton's global aid initiative (NY Times)
Sept. 25, 2006 Anxiety in the Salinas Valley over effects of spinach scare - the communities (NY Times)
  Investigators narrow search for contaminated spinach (Associated Press)
  Wal-Mart goes "green" (USA Today)
Sept. 26, 2006 Scientists hope to use cow manure for energy production (Daily Evergreen)
Sept. 27, 2006 More university students want sustainable, organic food (USA Today)
  Latest E.coli outbreak the "tipping point" for new food safety rules? (NY Times)
Sept. 28, 2006 Wal-Mart declares war on organic farmers (Cornucopia Institute press release)
  Wal-Mart: The Nation's Largest Grocer Rolls-out Organic Products. Market Expansion or Market Delusion? (Cornucopia Institute White Paper)
  E. coli haunts victims long after outbreak (Seattle Times)
  Organic spinach and industry BS (Grist)
Sept. 29, 2006 Spinach linked to E. coli outbreak was not organic (LA Times)
  FDA announces findings from E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in spinach (US Food and Drug Administration)
  Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recommendations
Oct. 3, 2006 EPA document faults agency for thousands of deaths (NPR)
Oct. 4, 2006 A bad time for organic believers (The American Daily)
  Eating sustainable seafood (Toronto Star)
Oct. 9, 2006 Business and environmental groups release Sustainable Energy Blueprint (GreenBiz)
Oct. 10, 2006 Comment period for state plan to manage Columbia River (Seattle Times)
  Engineering food using nanotechnology (NY Times)
  DuPont unveils ambitious sustainability plans (The News Journal, Wilmington, DE)
  Inexpensive, personal water purifier could save thousands of lives (NY Times)
Oct. 11, 2006 Deal with Libya to purchase over 1 million $100 laptop computers from One Laptop Per Child (NY Times)
Oct. 13, 2006 Yunus, Grameen Bank win Peace Prize
Additional article about Yunus and Peace Prize
??? Campus Sustainability from the Chronicle of Higher Education
   
   
   
   
   


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