License plates have certainly gotten more colorful in recent years! What was once a bland assortment of duo-toned numbers is now a mobile art gallery of nature imagery. Environmental plates have caught on in a big way. Throughout the country, these tags have become wildly popular and are generating millions of dollars for a wide […]
Body-Slamming the Environment? After the Minnesota legislative session adjourned last May, former professional wrestler and current Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, took to the airwaves. He began making the national media rounds, not as a new governor, but as the celebrity author of a new autobiography called I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed. Ventura has […]
For years, “environmentally friendly” was a phrase unlikely to be connected with the dry cleaning industry. Perchloroethylene (PERC), the solvent used by dry cleaners, is a volatile toxin—responsible for both air and water pollution, as well as human health problems. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences assessment of PERC reads like a description of […]
The Grassroots Take on General Electric in the Battle To Clean Up the Hudson Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival draws a crowd of thousands every year, people young and old who gather under the shady trees of Croton Point, New York to listen to folk songs drift out over the celebrated river. And although it […]
On October 16, 1997, my Eureka, California District Office was rocked by what sounded like a thunderous explosion. In fact, the sound was that of a 500-pound tree stump being dumped off a truck onto the office foyer floor. Upon responding to the horrific sound, my two female staff members were greeted by the visage of several Earth First! terrorists, one wearing a black ski mask, and another wearing dark goggles and a hood.
John Muir called them “the greatest of living things.” California’s giant sequoias—also known simply as “the big trees”—have outlived millennia of ecological and cultural change on the west side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These grand monuments to natural history, which can grow taller than the Statue of Liberty, were full grown when Jesus Christ […]
This is a very special issue of E Magazine. In the magazine’s 10-year history, we have on only one other occasion devoted the entire feature section to a single story. That piece, a cross-country exploration of environmental racism, appeared in 1998. Now we’re doing it again, with an international tour of global warming “hot spots.” […]
© Photo © 2000 Gary Braasch © The Global Warming Debate Is Over. It’s Real, Inexorable, and Headed Our Way In 1995, more than 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reported to the United Nations that our burning of oil, coal and natural gas is changing the Earth’s climate. Five years later, many of the same […]
A Consumer Guide to Music From the Earth Though the haunting and soaring sounds of the deep sea now echo in our consciousness, before the late 1960s human beings knew nothing of this hidden sonic world. It was an underwater microphone that first allowed Roger Payne and Scott McVay to hear the astonishing sounds of […]
Hot Beverages That Are Good for the Earth Shade-grown coffee. Fair-traded tea. Hot cocoa from all-natural ingredients, chai that’s certified organic. Bottoms up, thirsty environmentalist. It’s never been easier to find a hot drink that’s good both for the palate and the planet. And you don’t have to search the world over to find it. […]
