Pay to Play
The Public Land Management Benefits from User Fees, But Will Nature Lose Out?
Seeking Dominion
Religious Right Leaders Launch Interfaith Council To ‘Subdue’ Nature. Who says that only liberals can launch environmental groups? A group of religious right leaders, scientists and academics celebrated the 30th anniversary of Earth Day by launching the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
Cash for Carbon
With The Emerging Trade in Carbon Credits, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Has Become a Seller's Market.
Photos, Philanthropy and Perfumed Pages
The Lowdown on Toxic Chemicals, Green Towns and Taming Allergies What environmental hazards, if any, are associated with photography? —Sarah, Ontario, Canada While pictures may be worth a thousand words, they have, pardon the expression, a negative side. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that “many of the chemicals used to develop photographs are corrosive […]
Closing Surf City
These are tough times for Surf City, USA. The crashing waves and golden sands of Huntington Beach, once immortalized by the Beach Boys as the epitome of southern Californian living, has been stricken by a mysterious affliction. The California beaches of surfing legend are now off limits because of uncontrollable solid waste pollution.© Guy Motil/Surfrider […]
Sacrificing to Save Salmon
Six months after the largest and most commercially-prized Pacific salmon species, the Puget Sound Chinook, hit the federal Endangered Species List, local efforts to craft a homegrown recovery plan for Seattle's signature fish remain mired in special-interest face-offs amongst the region's three million inhabitants. Now, it's the federal government's turn to call the shots, as […]
Sacrificing the Sacred Mountains
To the Navajo, the extinct volcano marking the western pillar of their sprawling reservation is called Diichiti, the Mountain of Strength. It is sacred ground to the Navajo, Havasupi and Hopi tribes.
Rockers Honor the Earth
As the world's population hit six billion last October, rock and pop stars concerned about the world's environmental problems teamed up with the United Nations to perform an unprecedented Internet-based global concert called Net Aid (www.netaid.org). Whatever its musical significance, the concert, which featured such performers as Jewel, Sting and U2's Bono, also underscored a […]
George W. Bush
Deep in the Heart of Smog While Texas Governor George W. Bush was away campaigning for his party's Presidential nomination last summer, his fellow Texans were choking on the dirtiest air in the country. During 1999, Texas led the nation in Clean Air Act violations, and Houston replaced Los Angeles as our “smoggiest city.” Like […]
Breathing Easy
In America's First Environmentally-Smart Hotel To what some may consider a rather stagnant hotel industry, the newly opened Sheraton Rittenhouse Square is a breath of fresh air…literally. Every 34 minutes, guests of this Philadelphia establishment are bathed in an atmosphere that's been completely filtered of such air pollutants as mold, pollen and bacteria. The hotel's […]