Pasta Preferred
While organic pasta represents only two percent of total yearly pasta sales, it is a growing niche.
Drugging Our Water
Last summer, USGS scientists sampled 139 rivers and streams, finding hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and personal care products lingering in the nation’s water supply.
Let it Flow
Permeable pavements prevent water runoff.
A Green Getaway
The Virgin Islands" Maho Bay puts conservation first.
Environmental Justice in Alabama
If the planned relocation of Alabama’s Greene County jail goes ahead as scheduled, prisoners may be sentenced to inhaling toxic waste as part of their incarceration.
Ginette Hemley
Wildlife Warrior In a photograph she furnished to E, Ginette Hemley, vice president for species conservation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is casting a practiced eye on the goods for sale at an Asian market, undoubtedly on the lookout for products containing tiger bone, rhino horn or other endangered species ingredients. From 1986 to […]
Our Beleaguered Beaches
Increased Pollution And Lax Water Quality Standards Lessen Summer Fun In The Sun
Dangerous Beauty
Flower Farms May Threaten Workers and the Environment Driving through central Costa Rica below the Tilaran Mountains, travelers see a hillside blanketed with exotic flowers. But the bucolic vision is immediately undercut by the sight of a semi-rusted drum, etched with a skull-and-crossbones warning. Workers—mostly women—dip plants ready for shipping into a noxious-looking brew. The […]
Better Ideas
Ford in Pursuit of the Green Car In the early 1930s, Henry Ford walked into his company’s research lab with a bag of chicken bones, dumped them on a desk and proclaimed, “See what you can do with these.” He later urged his staff to try out cantaloupes, carrots, cornstalks, cabbages and onions in his […]
Currents of Change
Can Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal be Cleaned Up? A cruise up the murky Gowanus Canal is a journey into the heart of darkest Brooklyn. These sell-out excursions focus not on romance, fine dining or savoring the Manhattan skyline. Instead, throngs lining the boat railings observe rust-belt factories along the waterway, forming a forbidden jungle. One shocked […]