The Land Made Famous by Noriega Needs to Protect Its Rainforests In the United States, the rainforest has become a floral fantasy land. But in Panama City, where the rainforest starts right in town, the mass mind drifts to other lands.
What are green and slimy and not in your refridgerator? If you said, "Frogs," you’re right. But increasingly, they’re not anywhere else, either.
The prospect of an electric car nation is an exciting one to many, from car buffs to utilities eager to sell us more electricity. California’s mandate that two pecent of all new vehicles sold in the state by 1998 – and 10 percent by 2003 – be "emission free" is a big boost to the fledgling electric vehicle industry which now boasts dozens of small entrepreneurial companies. If Detroit opts to cooperate rather than fight the mandate, we will make a significant step toward cleaner air.
Congratulations! Your’re working at home. Maybe you live in L.A. and your company’s office was hit by the quake. Or maybe your progressive employer recognizes the higher job satisfaction – not to mention productivity levels – of telecommuting employees. In any case, you’re not alone – working at home is becoming a mega-trend of the […]
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There I was, flipping through a popular green goods catalog, excited by what I saw – everyday items that were practical for me and for the Earth, such as nontoxic cleaners and reusable lunch bags. Then I came across the cotton sheet sets: unbleached and naturally dyed, listed at $69. That’s roughly what I spend on groceries each month! But buying green does not have to be a wallet-emptying experience. There are ways to stretch your eco-dollar on items ranging from cleansers to lightbulbs to barbecues.
While the American media’s attention has been focused on the jobs-versus-owls controversy of the Pacific Northwest, battles over forests are beginning to rage throughout the East and Southeast.
The Sequoyah Fuels plant looked like an ordinary factory on the Oklahoma prairie. But it processed radioactive uranium with little regard for its workers or the environment. Until local Cherokee people took on the giants of the nuclear industry – and won.
What do environmentalists have against plastics recycling? While the country happily recycles bottles, cans and newspapers, we have yet to figure out what to do with plastics, which are growing in production at a rate of 10 percent per year.
We are fascinated by oceans – the waves, the smell of salt air, the sense that nature hasn’t changed in millions of years. But the same forces that degrade our land, from industrialization to habitat destruction to overpopulation, now threaten oceans around the world.
