Be Comforted: You’re not the only literate person who has never heard of echinacea. If you feel guilty because you ran out of antioxidants two months ago and still haven’t replenished your supply, or you keep forgetting to take your chromium picolinate, relax.
This is the first in a new series of columns about realizing environmental ideals on the homefront. For some people, it’s easier to talk about saving the Earth than it is to actually live those principles daily. The column will be about practical environmental ideas,from alternatives to the all-American lawn to non-toxic home insulation and water-saving toilets. In the first installment, Juliet Cuming tries to define what makes a house a eco home
Environmentalists, thankfully, aren’t couch potatoes, and eco-travel is becoming more and more popular every year. This new column will explore not only travel destinations but trends in environmental travel and operating standards that this fledging industry is attempting to meet.
The phrase "printed on recycled paper" has become a badge of honor worn by the documents of environmentally conscious companies, ranked (along with "Made in the USA") as one of the business world’s greatest feel-good chains.
When I met Sister Dorothy Stang, I knew I was encountering someone remarkable. I met her in Belém, the capital of Pará state in northern Brazil. Belém has more than a million people, and it was not the natural habitat for Dayton, Ohio native Dorothy Stang. She lived far from the city in a remote Amazonian jungle settlement populated by the landless peasants whose interests she tirelessly protected, along with the rainforest itself.
Much to the chagrin of conservationists hoping that the Bush administration would start considering its environmental legacy during its second term, the White House budget proposal for 2006 calls for a six percent cut in funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The White House budget proposal for 2006 is counting on income from opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling, much to the dismay of many environmentalists. The White House is projecting that the federal government will take in up to $1.2 billion over the next two years from oil companies paying for the right to lease oil drilling permits within ANWR.
The jury is still out regarding whether diesel is a greener option overall given all the factors at play, including a constatly shifting fuels marketplace….
Planners are still debating how to best mitigate so-called suburban sprawl although layering in greenbelts in successive bands around a city is one way…
January 2005 was the second-warmest January of the past 27 years, according to the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama. It was almost a full degree Fahrenheit warmer than seasonal norms.
