Armando Valbuena Gouriyu speaks with quiet pride about his people, the Wayuu, an indigenous tribe inhabiting the Guajira Peninsula in Colombia, the northernmost point in South America. With a decentralized, rural society, the Wayuu successfully resisted colonial conquest. They traded with the British, Dutch and French, fought off pirates, and stubbornly retained a barter economy, as well as their own language and customs. "That helped us to survive," Gouriyu says.
Environmentalists fight to protect the microscopic creatures that dwell on the ocean’s bottom.
Interview with Richard Leakey.
Bike Power, Burning Trash, and the Low-Down on Automakers’ Search for Alt-Fuels.
Though the island’s economy is thriving, its unique environment is threatened.
For three weeks beginning in September, fish returning to the Klamath River to spawn died by the tens of thousands.
Bats around the world are benefiting from increased educational efforts.
I became vegetarian half a life ago, at age 25. Worried by then-common fears that vegetarians don’t get enough protein, I began cautiously, substituting awful-tasting peanut butter-marinara combinations for meat sauce, and doing lots of stir-fries with added protein powder. I also briefly tried the non-dairy route, drinking soy milks which, at the time, also […]
Earthjustice Makes a Case for the Environment In a court of law, where rulings are often based on legal precedents, the nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice often ends up citing the legal precedent of itself. The group, founded in 1971 as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, has grown and evolved along with the history […]
In the Wake of September 11, Environmental Direct-Action Groups Change Their Tactics On the morning of September 11, Congressman Don Young (R-AK) warned against a rush to judgment about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Young told a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News that responsibility could lie with groups […]
