Although green-friendly goods are starting to show up just about everywhere, finding all the right products is still not as simple as a one-stop trip to the mall or major grocer. However, there are several reputable websites, mail order catalogs and storefront retailers that cater to the eco-motivated consumer.
It was with some sense of detachment that I approached the Powershift 2007 conference at the University of Maryland two weeks ago (November 2 to 5). Honestly? I would have expected a lot of students to attend simply to party somewhere new for the weekend; to make friends, escape embarrassing hook-ups, or find new connections for pot. Not, I guessed, to actually learn. But I met student after student who cared passionately about climate change.
Though the Bush administration has been slow to even admit that global warming is a serious issue, and has rejected the terms of the Kyoto Protocol (an international agreement calling on developed nations
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Son verdad las rumores que rellenar y reutilizar algunos tipos de botellas plásticas pueden causar problemas de salud?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es verdad que el calentamiento del planeta puede exacerbar las alergias?
It’s no secret that glossy coatings on magazine covers make pictures really “pop” and attract the eye, thus helping publications compete for attention on ever more crowded newsstands.
There’s an American myth that radicals will eventually burn out or sell out. om Hayden has done neither. Last November, as Bill Clinton and Al Gore snatched the White House from George "chainsaw" Bush and Dan "I never met a recycling program I couln’t block" Quayle, Hayden completed his own political comeback by winning a seat in the California State Senate.
According to sterotype, the government whistleblower sits on an empty desk all day, stirring coffee, waiting for reporters to call. He or she may by dynamite on 60 Minutes, exposing dangerous fraud and incompetence, but back in the office the lonely hero is a disgruntled employee, a pariah around the water cooler, a naive moralist who won’t adapt to an imperfect world.
The highlights of Jacques Cousteau’s life are hardly a mystery; every schoolkid knows about his pioneering underwater photography, his famous TV program The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1968-1976), his environmental activism and his many awards and prizes.
The new chief of the U.S. Forest Service has received everything from kudos to death threats for his past recommendations to protect the spotted owl. What’s his vision for the 90s for our 191 million acres of national forest land?
For 50 years, banjo player Pete Seeger has been a singer with a conscience. Here he talks about green politics, the Hudson River and the Clearwater sloop he launched in 1968 to clean it up.
