Looking for an innovative way to protect the environment and receive valuable financial rewards? If you or someone in your family owns land that you’d like to see protected, donating the property to a land trust may make sense. It’s probably the only personal statement about controlling urban sprawl you can make that won’t infuriate […]
Traveling with a Cause in a Dangerous World The Congo and its neighboring mountains were never a travel destination for the faint of heart, but the chance to see gorillas in their native mists has long been a powerful lure. Visitors flooded into neighboring Uganda until this past March, when 14 tourists were abducted and […]
Can Congress Walk the Walk? When freshman Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Portland, Oregon, began his term in the House of Representatives three years ago, he wore bow-ties to stand out among the other congressional newbies. Now he’s known more for having one of the greenest reputations in Congress. Chief among his legislative achievements is […]
Three quarters of Americans get their news primarily from television—if it’s not on the tube, for most people it isn’t happening at all. That’s what makes environmental programming all the more important. And that where Ecology Communications comes in. Courtesy of Ecology Communications Environmental programming doesn’t have much of a place on ratings-obsessed network television, […]
As natural foods consumers get more adventurous in their eating habits, the organic herb and spice trade is heating up. Several companies are building a market for pesticide-free seasonings, which were difficult or impossible to obtain just four or five years ago. And these companies are going further by creating sustainable agriculture programs that allow […]
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.
