Even the most remote trails in Nepal are littered with bright orange Kodak film boxes and granola bar wrappers. So what’s a solitdue-loving ecotourist to do? the best bet these days is to buy a ticket to Australia, where the population density is among the lowest in the world and the Outback offers thousands of square miles of untrampeled wilderness.
Not long ago, the idea of a corporate "environmental report" was a glossy brochure featuring a duck-filled lake, a tree-filled forest, and a bunch of smiling kids playing on the beach. If the company was really brave, it might picture its factory–but always around nature’s finest.
College probably hasn’t changed very much in the past few decades when it comes to student life. Semesters are measured by how many nights were spent at the library huddling over a large cup of coffee and a History of the Modern World book. You can’t call yourself an undergraduate student unless you’ve attempted to print out a last-minute essay only to discover your printer has run out of black ink. Yes, you do get marked down if you hand in an essay in pink ink. I know I’ve destroyed at least a small forest in how many copies I’ve made while conducting research.
American opposition to strong action to curb carbon dioxide emissions has led to a rift between leaders of the world’s industrialized nations–the so-called "Group of Eight," or G8–who met last week in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Bush administration’s continued resistance to signing onto forceful measures to combat global warming looks to jeopardize one of UK prime minister Tony Blair’s major goals for his year-long presidency of the G8 group.
In yet another example of how global warming is wreaking havoc on the Earth’s environment, a group of leading scientists from the UK’s Royal Society released a report last week detailing how industrial carbon dioxide emissions have led to the increased acidity of the world’s oceans and is in turn causing irreparable harm to marine ecosystems and the living creatures therein.
When Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited the Great Falls Park in Virginia last year, he found no one at the entrance to take his fee. When he inquired, the superintendent said she was one of the only three employees on duty and the other two were on emergency calls.
Sewage treatment plants are required to abide by federal odor and nuisance laws devised to protect residents. Some plants build enclosures for the treatment tanks, thereby containing the smells.
The harmful effects of automobile air conditioners can be directly attributed to leaking of CFC R-12, one of a number of cooling ingredients patented by DuPont and popularly known as Freon. In December 1995, the U.S. banned the manufacture of this ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) in order to adhere to standards
According to the U.S. Census, Americans own more than 60 million domestic cats. But analysts estimate that another 40-60 million formerly pet cats and their offspring roam free. These so-called wild or “feral” cats are blamed for wreaking havoc on already stressed populations of songbirds and other small animals.
In today’s terror-fighting climate, do students and teachers still have the right to take field trips on public property? Thirteen students, two teachers and Willie Fontenot may learn that answer the hard way. Fontenot, the long-time environmental justice advocate working for the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, claims he was forced out of his job April 5 by Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. Fontenot’s supposed "crime" was assisting the students and faculty who were part of an Antioch New England (ANE) Graduate School’s field course studying environmental justice issues in Louisiana.
