No Safe Haven
People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) Are Becoming the New Homeless
Fruit of the Vine
A Surging Organic Industry Delivers Natural Wine–Without the Headaches Picture this: a moonlit night after a hard day, you pour yourself some wine, swirl it around the glass. Raising it slowly to your mouth, you notice the crisp redolence of fruit and accents of oak-spice. The wine’s fresh acidity coats the tongue, followed by an […]
Close to Home
The 10 Most Dangerous Toxins in Your Household It’s official: Staying home is hazardous to your health. Toxins found in the home injured 789,000 Americans between 1992 and 1995, and new research suggests that this figure is underestimated. Dan McCoy / Rainbow “Toxins in U.S. homes now account for 90 percent of all reported poisonings […]
Doin’ a Body Good? Studies Link rBGH-Produced Milk and Increased Cancer Risk
Those white mustaches on the smiling faces of celebrities may be a clever way to promote the “milk does a body good” idea. But there’s nothing amusing about increasing evidence of much higher rates of breast and prostate cancers in people who have elevated levels of Insulin-Like Growth-Factor 1 (IGF-1), the hormone that increases milk […]
Lease It! Temporary Ownership May Spur Corporate Responsibility
Whatever happened to that old television you set out on the curb? Most broken electronics and worn-out appliances end up in landfills. But in Europe, where recycling reigns and manufacturers bear a great responsibility for the products they make (a concept known as Extended Producer Responsibility), many appliances avoid the garbage dump. Could it happen […]
Spice Island
Thank Nutmeg for Grenada’s Unspoiled Beauty Grenada Board of Tourism Grenada is a relative newcomer on the tourism bandwagon, which explains why this lush, unspoiled Caribbean nation is such a well-kept secret. But not for long. As soon as nature lovers discover its rainforest hikes, white-sand beaches lapping warm turquoise seas, and private coastlines with […]
Chris Myers
Empowering Environmental Investigators As a children’s book author, Dr. Chris Myers has introduced kids to the Galapagos Islands and the Clouded Leopard. As the editor of Dragonfly, a colorful bimonthly magazine of environmental education founded in 1995, he’s given them wings. The magazine, which has won many awards from educational and parents’ groups, is largely […]
Whitlin’ Dixie
Chip Mills Supplying the Paper Industry Are Clear-Cutting the South In the thicket of the Carolina Lowlands, the whirring buzz and grind of a lone chip mill disturbs the summer symphony of rustling branches, crickets and the guttural call of wild turkeys. As the highly-automated leviathan roars with efficiency, stripping bark and grinding trees into […]
Kosovo’s Wounded Environment
The ecological consequences of the two-month-long North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombing campaign in Kosovo are likely to reach catastrophic proportions, threatening to have long-lasting effects throughout the Balkans. The NATO arsenal used in the Yugoslavian province contained some of the military’s most powerful weapons. According to researcher Alphonse MacDonald, a heavy bomb such as […]
Pay Dirt
How American Farmers Can Ease Global Warming–And Make a Profit, Too The answer to at least some of America’s greenhouse woes might be right under our noses. Well, under our shoes at least. While many climate change naysayers argue that trying to stop global warming would be an economy-killer, some environmentalists in the Midwest are […]