Category Archives: Environment

Good to the Last Drop? Crisis for Coffee Growers Mandates Consumer Response

Posted on 04/21/2002 by Meredith Kruse

Since returning from Nicaragua I have closely followed the news from that region. The news has not been good. During the summer of 2000, I stayed with a family in Matagalpa who lived in a small wooden shack set in … Continue reading →

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Hybrid Car Inspires Cleaner, Greener Government

Posted on 03/08/2002 by L. Orion Weill

In the wake of last year’s rollbacks for theallowable limit of arsenic in drinking water initiated by President Bush (whom Christie Todd Whitman, head of the EPA, called the “best environmental President we have ever had”), many ecologically-minded citizens are … Continue reading →

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Challenging the Media Monopoly: Introducing the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center’s public i

Posted on 08/17/2001 by Sascha Meinrath

This inaugural issue of the public i represents the birth of the only news-focused, collectively-run, non-profit newspaper in Urbana-Champaign. Continue reading →

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