Perception is Reality
Greenwashing is said to go well beyond print and broadcast advertising to a comprehensive public relations effort designed to advance industry’s agenda.
Unwanted Guests
When one or two insects visit your home, they seem like obnoxious guests. And when an invasion occurs, your first reaction may be to call the exterminator or spray something noxious. But insect infestations aren’t always as bad as they seem, and there are numerous options that don’t involve the purchase of toxic pesticides.
The Green Money Trap
For most environmentalists the first law of money is "Spending less is best." That’s a fast way of saying the less we buy the better off the environment. As a general rule, it’s a good one: America’s prodigious and unsustainable shopping habits are creating pollution and depleting resources as fast as you can say "GNP growth."
Saving Fish and Jobs
In September, conservationists applauded as the U.S. Congress passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act (S. 39), which amends and reauthorizes the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. (See "The World’s Fisheries: A State of Emergency," July/August and September/October 1996). The bill limits catch numbers in federal waters, and ties allowable fish harvests to levels which will maintain productivity.
Terri Swearingen
The Long War With WTI As a registered nurse and mother, Terri Swearingen, 40, knows a little something about persistence. For the last two decades, she has been making thousands of calls and speeches, conducting health surveys, appealing to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials, pleading with the President, and making trouble for Waste Technologies Industries […]
Trouble Above the Treeline
New Hampshire’s Presidential Range, a picturesque area topped by expansive alpine terrain in the White Mountain National Forest, has long been known as a place where fair weather can quickly turn vicious. No one knows this better than the Appalachian Mountain Club. For over a century, the AMC has used its hut system in the […]
Highways to Hell
Bikes and Buses Battle the Road, Tire and Asphalt Lobby You’re riding your bike to work on the Willamette River Pathway in Portland, Oregon. Before you get to your office, you stop for a shower at Bike Central, a commuting facility downtown. That evening, you put your bicycle on a bus rack and head for […]
Mad Cowboys
The Beef Industry Takes Aim at "Food Disparagement" “You said [mad cow disease] could make AIDS look like the common cold?” asked TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey. “Absolutely,” said her guest, Howard Lyman of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). “That’s an extreme statement, you know,” Winfrey said. “Absolutely,” Lyman said again. […]
Raising a Ruckus
Learning How to Monkey-Wrench at Direct Action Camp Being an effective rabble-rouser takes more than fearlessness and commitment to the cause. It also takes skill, say the environmental graybeards at The Ruckus Society. Ruckus was founded in 1995 by two civil disobedience giants, Mike Roselle of Earth First! and Rainforest Action Network fame, and former […]
Turf Wars: Swelling Human Populations Are Crowding Out Other Species
It’s not just in places like India or Zimbabwe that endangered plant and animal species are battling it out with growing numbers of people for the few remaining parcels of habitat. In the United States, too, population growth is the single greatest threat to endangered species. Each day huge tracts of land are being gobbled […]