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.
For musician Skip La Plante, heaps of grabage are nothing more that great opportunities to make music.
The tropical forests of Guatemala’s largest and northernmost state, the Peten, cover nearly two million hectares (nearly 5 million acres). They contain numerous rare and endangered animal species, and more than 400 species of trees. But the Peten is also rich in oil. And like other Latin American rainforest countries, Guatemala needs oil.
Years ago, Chicago’s Lincoln park Casting Club members would gather to thread flies and swap lies in a tree-sheltered brick building near Lake Michigan. But for the past 12 years their fieldhouse sat vacant, collecting red algae and huge heating bills.
