How Factory Fishing Decimated Newfoundland Cod. Five hundred years ago, the explorer John Cabot returned from the waters around what is now Newfoundland and reported that codfish ran so thick you could catch them by hanging wicker baskets over a ship’s side.
Can We Be Garbage-Free? Beyond Recycling, The New Goal Is Zero Waste.On October 18, the nation’s most colorful governor, Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, took the podium at the Riverfront Radisson in St. Paul and announced a radical new program to reduce the state’s waste stream.
In its three years in business, Denver's Technology Recycling (TR) has kept 100 tons of obsolete computers out of landfills, translating into almost 15 tons of lead that our ancestors won't have to deal with. Last October, the company expanded nationwide, offering its services in 60 American cities. Illustration: Jerry Russell The fact that companies […]
How Clean is Your Bottled Water? There’s no question about it, bottled water has become a hot commodity. Americans pay $4 billion dollars a year for the privilege of drinking it. Sales of bottled water have grown nine-fold in the past 20 years, and tripled in the last 10, making it the fastest-growing segment of […]
The Society of Environmental Journalists Plays an Important–and Controversial–Role The first time Deborah Schoch saw industrial-grade DDT it was a chunk the size of a walnut. Schoch was working for the Los Angeles Times, covering the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to survey for contamination of a lower-middle-class neighborhood near two Superfund sites. Environmental writer Barry […]
Environmentalists Team Up to Reform the Magazine Industry When it comes to promoting ecological destruction, toxic pollution and wastefulness on a large scale, it’s hard to beat the magazine industry. According to Co-op America, nearly 95 percent of magazines print on paper with no recycled content, condemning 17 million trees to death by the saw […]
Teaching Good Nutrition and Sound Farming in the School Cafeteria For many students, the cafeteria bell produces visions of long lines, hair nets and perfectly molded, ice cream scoop servings of starchy, lackluster food. But as the nation renews a focus on nutrition, several inspired school districts are dismissing this grade school nightmare with higher […]
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 […]
