Trophy Hunters are Wiping out British Columbia’s Grizzlies Tourists jam Glendale Lodge in Knight Inlet, British Columbia, every fall to witness grizzlies feeding on pink salmon migrating upriver to spawn. They shoot the fearsome bears—with their cameras. Are British Columbia"s grizzly bears being slaughtered by hunters, or managed sustainably? It depends on who you ask.Ian […]
The Facts on Used Jeans, Clean Windshields and Reusable Toothbrushes I have many pairs of blue jeans that are in decent shape, except the knees are worn out and they’re either too big or too small. Is there a place to take jeans where they can be reused in some way? —Janine Erali, Wyo Hills, […]
Have you heard about the ingredient in shampoos and bath washes called Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or Sodium Laureth Sulfate? —Carol Bean, Lyme, NH Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) is a cleanser derived from coconut oil, used in a variety of household and industrial products. Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) has similar foaming and cleansing effects, as do […]
Where can I go to find out how much energy my home uses annually?According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Annual Energy Outlook 2000 Report, American residential energy use will increase by more than 22 percent overall between 1998 and 2020.
Too Much Of A Good Thing The first evidence of a troubled lake is blue-green algae and a foul smell. The next: dead fish littering the shore. The culprit in this crime against nature is phosphorus pollution, a growing danger to delicate lake ecosystems. Although sewage treatment plants and the elimination years ago of phosphates […]
It sounds improbable: derelict south London land transformed into fields of lavender. But you can see and smell the two and a half acres planted on abandoned local council property by the visionary BioRegional Development Group (BDG). The group was founded in suburban Sutton five years ago on the green idea of sustainably producing local […]
In 1998, the former tribal council authorized the operation in a deal that supplied free land, roads, water and electricity to Sun Prairie in exchange for five percent of the profits and up to 250 jobs for one of the poorest counties in the nation. But when local residents found out that the plan was […]
Rusted tin cans, rotting carpets, refrigerators, a playground set, coffee makers, toilet seats, paint cans, deer carcasses stuffed into garbage cans, tons of household garbage, thousands of tires—the list reads like a cross between a town dump inventory and a tag sale. But instead, these items were hauled from culverts, quarries, riverbanks, roadside turnarounds and […]
Loved to Death The large, flat shells of living abalone once carpeted the rocky waters along California’s coastline from Mexico to Oregon. Prior to European settlement, Native Americans feasted on the mollusk’s muscular foot and employed its shell as a colorful decoration. More recently, Californians have established a multi-million dollar industry harvesting abalone and delivering […]
November 28-29, 1999. Our delegation of journalists, winners of the annual Population Institute reporting awards, arrives in New Delhi in the middle of the night and drives through nearly deserted streets to our hotel. The 4 a.m. calm is deceptive: at first light, the streets fill with belching diesel taxis and two-stroke motorcycle-based rickshaws, colorfully […]
