It’s amazing the amount of horrific news we manage to filter out during the course of a day. I recently awoke to discover that there had been a major earthquake in Asia. CNN told me, "Hundreds of people are reported dead after a massive earthquake struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, just three months after a huge quake and tsunami devastated the region."
In what could be a crushing blow to Bush administration plans to store the nation’s nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, the Energy Department has announced that federal scientists may have misrepresented findings regarding the potential for water to seep into and jeopardize storage facilities at the controversial site.
In a recent poll conducted on behalf of the nonpartisan Civil Society Institute, two-thirds of participants, representing a wide socioeconomic and geographic range of Americans, said they considered driving a more fuel-efficient car to be patriotic in light of increasing U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil reserves.
Now that the cherry blossoms are in bloom and the daffodils are beginning to flower, people from coast to coast are starting to think about getting outdoors again. Participating in the creation of a community garden is a great way to build a neighborhood resource while getting some fresh air and growing some tasty vegetables and beautiful flowers in the process.
Credit unions have existed in the United States now for more than a century. Unlike banks, they are non-profit institutions and were originally formed to serve groups that share a common bond—such as a place of employment, residence, or membership in a labor union
James Bond, meet Captain Planet! The CIA is aiming at environmental command and control, using its satellites and other technologies to predict weather and other environmental changes
Eco-consciousness is trying to build a way station on the new "information superhighway." No less than three entrepreneurs want to start eco-consious cable TV networks, but is the market ready for them?
Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, now a talk show host, is heard on more than 150 stations nationwide as a counter to Rush Limbaugh’s "ditto heads." Hightower says humor helps make the green message go down easier.
In <I>E’s</I> first issue in January 1990, writer Dick Russell predicted that "the 90s, for better or worse, will be the environmental decade." He was right, and <I>E’s</I> debut five years ago could not have been better timed. We arrived on the scene just before the most successful Earth Day in 20 years, and just as an explosion of interest swelled the ranks of enviornmental groups and swept green politicians into office.
You’re sitting at your desk, slightly stiff from a long session starting at the comptuer screen. It’s 4 p.m. and that headache is back. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if your weren’t so unusually fatigued and didn’ t have that tinge of nausea and slight dizziness – and that terrible stuffy nose.
