Radon Revisited

In 1984, public concern over residential radon mounted when Stanley Watras set of radiation monitor alarms as he arrived for work at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant. When no explanation could be found at the pant, tests at the Watras home revealed radon levels about 800 times the federal standard. Three years later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared indoor radon "the most deadly environmental hazard in the U.S." – responsible for more cancer deaths than any other pollutant under its jurisdiction. The agency maintain that position today.

Four and Counting

You are holding in your hands the 25th edition of E Magazine – our 4th Anniversary Issue and the kick-off to our 5th year. Not bad, we think, for a magazine which began with virtually no start-up money during the worst of economic times. Indeed, most magazine experts, preffering to believe that magazines with social change missions can’t cut it, predicted the collapse of the "environment category" two years ago. So, at this important juncture, I would like to thank our readers, advertisers and other supporters – as well as our hard-working staff (both past and present) – without whom E could not have been possible.

Coffees With Conscience

Ahhh, waking up to java nirvana, jolting your eyes open and revving up yoru mind. Besides being a morning habit for 130 million Americans, coffee has become hip to sip day or night, cold or hot. As one connoisseur rhapsodizes, "It’s alwasy time for coffee."

High Time for Some Population Intelligence

Last September, Jane Fonda addressed the United Nations, now preparing for the Conference on population and Developement in Cairo, Egypt this September. She and her husband, Ted Turner, are Special Goodwill Ambassadors to the United Nations Population Fund. The following is excerpted from her speech.

Green Fields

"Hiring more people is the last thing on most managers’ minds." That grim assessment of the country’s employment outlook, which recently appeared in The People, a Palo Alto newspaper, is just the kind of news to send newly consecrated B.S. holders scurrying to the safety of graduate school – or worse, back home to mom and dad – and comple would-be job changers to stay put.

The People Summit

Too Many People, Not Enough Money: The Population Conundrum Comes to Cairo To Americans weaned on visions from Soylent Green, a sci-fi film made in 1973, the specter of overpopulation calls forth images of city squares so crowded with people that giant scoopers must shovel them clear like dirt. Every night, Charlton Heston, the movie’s […]

A Mine of Their Own

Preserve manager Bill Brown switched on the light on his coal miner helmet and waited his turn to slide down the steep snow-covered entrance to the abandoned Hague Mine in upstate New york. Already safely inside, his colleagues from the Adirondack Nature Conservancy & Land Trust (ANCLT), along with a team of journalists who were accompanying them that day, gave him the signal to go, and Brown descended into the mine, glad to trade the below-zero temperatures outside for the more than 120,000 hibernating little brown and big brown bats that awaited his arrival below.

Protecting Panama

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.

Ozone Alert

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 Last Days of Fahrvergnugen

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.

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