Organic Grapes, Organic Wine
Organic wine is here to stay thanks to several pioneering American wineries incorporating local produce and green packaging.
Paul Gleason
Posts by Paul Gleason:
Popping Corks: Is There a Screw-Top Wine in Your Future?
For hundreds of years, cork has been the gold standard for "stopping" wine. But now plastic stoppers and screw tops are challenging the tradition, and the benefits are causing even prestigious vintners and snooty wine reviewers to change their attitude from dismissal to acceptance.
Learning from Green Roofs
The rooftop at St. Simon Stock Catholic School on East 182nd Street in the Bronx, New York is a lone patch of green in the quilt of gray, beige and black that stretches across the southeast Bronx. Six inches of a patented, lightweight growing medium called Gaia Soil covers 3,500 square feet, divided into plots for both elementary and graduate school research. The roof hosts 20 native species: delicate columbine flowers, milkweed that attracts migrating Monarch butterflies, tomato and cucumber plants, and black-eyed susans, favored by bumblebees.
Admitting Oil Addiction
President Bush famously admitted in his State of the Union address last January that “America is addicted to oil.” E took a look at our addiction in The Outlook on Oil (cover story, January/February 2006). Now the International Energy Outlook (IEO) reports that the U.S. actually decreased its oil consumption in 2005.
Saving the Sound
Long Island Sound is a celebrated estuary stretching from New London, Connecticut and Long Island to New York City. Its shores are home to nine million people and its watershed stretches 17,000 square miles.