Questioning Species Protection Plans In the biblical story of the Great Flood, Noah built an ark to preserve samples of every living creature. Today, the rising tide of global extinction threatens to eliminate half of all species within 100 years (see the cover story this issue). The U.S. Interior Department, which has created more than […]
Ralph Nader Responds to His Critics When it comes to post-mortems of the 2000 Presidential race, there’s certainly no shortage of anger at the Green Party’s candidate, consumer advocate Ralph Nader. "This changes his legacy as a person," says Deborah Callahan, president of the League of Conservation Voters. "Ralph Nader is no friend of American […]
Independent Landowners Cut Down Trees to Save the Forest Although its southern half is dotted with sprawling suburban corridors, northern Maine is as empty and dark as a velvet stage curtain. The mixed forests—tall white pine, bristly spruce, oak and maple—seem to extend forever. "Most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the […]
The Earth Liberation Front Targets Long Island Sprawl An hour east of New York City, along the former rural Route 25A, the occasional roadside nursery and peach farm stand out like orphans among the business strips and office tracts of the island’s North Shore. The farms are fast disappearing in Suffolk County, and the way […]
The Goldman Foundation Recognizes Environmental Activists "Some well-respected scientists are worried. They cite studies which show injecting cows with BGH changes the milk we drink and that it contains a higher level of another hormone believed to promote cancer in humans." This sentence never made it into the Fox news broadcast that investigative journalist team […]
Is There Life After 2000 for America’s Biggest Third Party? When Ralph Nader announced he would run for President in 2000, few people thought he would register very high on the political Richter scale. Now, in the wake of an election so close that some Gore supporters blame the Presidency of George W. Bush on […]
"I’ve known rivers," wrote the great African-American poet Langston Hughes, "ancient, dusky rivers." He "heard the singing of the Mississippi" and watched "its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset." Jerry Russell Illustration Today, the Mississippi is the most polluted river in the U.S., and its song is a cry for help. The river’s […]
america’s troubled waters
When environmental leaders talk about the Bush Administration’s team—Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Christine Todd Whitman and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham—the operative word is "scary." About Norton, an extremist advocate of private property rights during a long public career, Endangered Species Coalition Executive Director Brock Evans says, "This is the […]
Is There More To Your Bouquet Than Meets The Eye? Above the perfumed surface of much of the cut-flower industry lies an unlovely cloud of toxic pesticide use. With Mother’s Day nearly here, what’s a concerned consumer to do? The control and monitoring of chemical substances used in the production of both cut flowers and […]
