Environmentally Innovative Art

Artist Germaine Suriyage found a wealth of materials for his hand-crafted, art-deco lamps and wall hangings while working in the food-service industry. Suriyage reuses mass quantities of discarded but usable "garbage," including recycled industrial cardboard spools, newspapers and colored paper, along with organic glues and acrylic paints. His creations are capriciously colorful animal-shaped lamps and wall-art (like lions and tigers). The eye-catching and innovative artpieces add style to any room, and make quite an environmental statement. For more information, contact:

Freedom from Fat?

Imagine stretching out on the couch, a World Series game on the tube and a large bowl of chips sitting invitingly on the cushion next to you. It doesn’t get any better than that, right? Well, what if those chips tasted just like the real thing but were low in calories and had no fat?

Bitter Days For National Parks

The impetuous rush to balance the federal budget is likely to spell more disaster for the National Park Service (see "Parks in Peril," March/April 1996). The latest financial projections for 2002 call for an estimated $650 million cut from the Department of the Interior’s budget, with a proposed $70 million budget cut from the Park Service alone.

Adam Werbach

The Youngest Sierra Club President Is Aiming for the Grassroots and MTV Werbach says his two-year mission is to “reinvigorate the grassroots momentum” and “focus the movement on winning.” At age eight, when most of his friends were collecting baseball cards and comic books, Adam Werbach was campaigning for the Sierra Club. He gathered more […]

Clouds in the Coffee

As Habitat Shrinks, a Shade-Grown Harvest Saves Songbirds Morning commuters, struggling to stay awake and focus on the day’s newspaper, probably don’t spend a lot of time worrying where their cup of coffee comes from. They’d be surprised to learn that it was most likely picked by Central American workers earning less than a dollar […]

Thinking Big

After Founding Esprit and North Face, Doug Tompkins Dresses Up an 800,000-Acre Park When Esprit founder Doug Tompkins went on a rainforest exploration trip to Chile seven years ago, he didn’t realize he’d soon be buying huge swaths of land down there, or that his growing passion for preservation would stir controversy all over the […]

The Open-Door Policy

Are High Immigration Levels Hurting the U.S. Economy-And the Environment? For immigration advocates, the release last May of a long-awaited National Research Council (NRC) study on the economic effects of our open door policy (around 800,000 people a year are admitted to the U.S.) was cause for rejoicing. While the NRC study did make some […]

Learning From the Earth

The Student Conservation Association Builds Lifelong Environmentalists In 1955, Vassar College student Elizabeth Putnam had an innovative idea for her senior thesis proposal. Her project, modeled after the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps (which put vast armies of young Americans to work on environmental projects), would organize high school and college students around the country […]

Generation E

One thing’s for sure about us—the children of the late 60s and 70s known as Generation X—we hate being referred to as “slackers.” Sour on politics, and viewing elected officials as self-interested, wasteful bureaucrats who don’t truly represent our concerns, many “twentysomethings” are taking to the streets to improve our cities, put a stop to […]

Just Doing It!

A growing number of young adults have moved beyond the hallmark issues of Baby Boomers-"recycling, saving whales and hugging trees"–and onto a greater diversity of issues.

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