Backcountry Solitude
Dedicated downhill racers around the country have moved their skis from the basement to the garage, ready to hit the slopes at the first sign of flurries…
Financial Planning Goes Green
Books, Journals and Websites To Help Eco-Manage Your Money
Facing up to Fluoride
It's in Our Water and in Our Toothpaste. Should We Worry? Since the 1940s, municipal water supplies across the United States have been routinely dosed with fluoride. Even if you don't live in the half of America that adds fluoride to the water supply to help prevent tooth decay, low doses of fluoride occur naturally […]
How Sweet it Is
Americans are sweet on sugar–that’s no big news. What is surprising, however, is the size of our sweet tooth. A recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey found that the average American polishes off the equivalent of 160 pounds of sugar a year.
Mean and Green
The Best Natrual Cleaners Get The Job DOne Without A Spectrum Of Irritating Or Toxic Agents.
Putting the 'Eco' in Tourism
10 Journeys That Just Might Change The World…Or At Least Your View Of It.
Many Rivers to Cross
What Are Genetically Engineered Drugs Doing to Our Water Supply? Glen Boyd's students didn't know what they might find as they dipped containers into the water and took them back for tests. What turned up? Medicine. There was cholesterol medication. There was the hormone estrone, a form of the estrogen prescribed to help menopausal women. […]
The Good News
Toxic Testing, Chemical Reactions and Longevity The Human Genome Project may offer some good news for the environment, too. Some examples: Faster Determination Of What Is Toxic—And For Whom. Everybody wonders what causes cancer. Researchers could place, say, cadmium directly onto a few strands of DNA, and immediately, right before their eyes, watch how the […]
Designer People
The Human Genetic Blueprint Has Been Drafted, Offering Both Perils and Opportunities for the Environment.
Tying the Strands of Life
In October, a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, set off a storm of controversy when it announced that it had successfully implanted the embryo of a guar, a seriously endangered ox-like animal native to the bamboo forests of India and Burma, in an American cow. The embryo was created from the cells of a guar […]