Stephen Filler

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  Message in a Bottle Bill

  Over the past 20 years, more than 80 billion bottles and cans have been returned and recycled through New York's bottle bill, and more than five million tons of plastic, glass and metal have been kept out of New York's landfills and incinerators.

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  Oakland: There is a Green There There

  Gertrude Stein famously said about her home town, Oakland, California, that "there isn't any there there." Surely she would have a different opinion if she were there today and, in fact, many green urban advocates like us wish we were

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  Shop Locally, Share Locally

  For the past four years, the Interra Project has developed an ingenious model for people to use financial networks to support their local communities and sustainability. Recently, Interra rolled out its first project -- Boston Community Change - in

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  Do Carbon Emissions from a Coal Mine Have Significant Environmental Impacts?

  What kind of question is that? Isn't the public finally convinced that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming and coal is one of the biggest culprits? Unfortunately, the legal system has still not resolved this issue --

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  A Personal Computer for the Planet

  If computers are going to help solve the sustainability crises -- and we believe they will -- then they must stop being part of the problem.

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  An Inconvenient Tax

  It's basic economics that the price of goods and services should reflect (or "internalize") all the societal costs of those goods and services. Yet the price of many products -- including electricity, gasoline and other fossil fuels -- frequently

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  Growing the Sustainable Web

  Perhaps the most important proposal affecting sustainability currently before Congress has nothing to do with the environment -- at least not on its face. It's the "net neutrality" law that was introduced last week that will assure that the

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  Spitzer and Sustainability

  Those of us who care about sustainability have high hopes for New York's new Governor Eliot Spitzer. During the campaign, Spitzer said that his top priorities would be "environmental stewardship, expanding energy conservation and renewable energy

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  TreeHugger Welcomes Writer Stephen Filler

  Stephen Filler is an attorney,