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Interview with James S. Cannon.

The Youngest Sierra Club President Is Aiming for the Grassroots and MTV Werbach says his two-year mission is to “reinvigorate the grassroots momentum” and “focus the movement on winning.” At age eight, when most of his friends were collecting baseball cards and comic books, Adam Werbach was campaigning for the Sierra Club. He gathered more […]

Billionaire, Media Mogul…and Environmentalist.

Artist Germaine Suriyage found a wealth of materials for his hand-crafted, art-deco lamps and wall hangings while working in the food-service industry. Suriyage reuses mass quantities of discarded but usable "garbage," including recycled industrial cardboard spools, newspapers and colored paper, along with organic glues and acrylic paints. His creations are capriciously colorful animal-shaped lamps and wall-art (like lions and tigers). The eye-catching and innovative artpieces add style to any room, and make quite an environmental statement. For more information, contact:

If you visited participating McDonald’s between June 14 and July 11, your $1.99 Happy Meal burger/fries/drink combo also included the opportunity to take home a plump, plush Babe figure, or one of six other characters from last summer’s blockbuster movie.

In 1992, when he ran an independent candidacy for the presidency, consumer advocate Ralph Nader nailed a democratic agenda known as The Concord Principles on the church door of American politics. Presidential campaigns, it said, "have become narrow, shallow, redundant and frantic parades and horse races which candidates, their monetary backers, and their handlers control unilaterally."

Paul Gorman has been a communicator all his life, so it’s not surprising that his work since 1993 as the executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) involves networking among major Christian and Jewish denominations.

Like his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim teaches in the religion department at Bucknell University. As a historian of religions, he has conducted considerable fieldwork on Native American "lifeways" and is the author of The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians

It’s About the Numbers Last year, Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz released a report entitled Sprawl in California that used U.S. Census data to challenge some of the traditional assumptions about why cities spill beyond their borders. "California’s population boom has been the number one factor in the state’s relentless urban sprawl, even though most […]