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Without a rapid shift in attitude among commercial fishermen, managers, and politicians, fishing economies–and the fish that support them–will vanish.

Elections 2003 Green electoral strategy is gaining traction for non profit organizations. Environmental candidates need all the help they can get from green groups.

The basic premise of socially responsible investing is simple: If money makes the world go "round, greener, more humane investments can improve the way it spins. Yet before hailing a new era of green capitalism, it’s also important to understand some of its limitations.

Though our elected representatives profess to vote their consciences, guided by their constituents’ interests, other, unseen forces exert powerful pressure. No matter what the people want, when it costs $500,000 to run a successful campaign for the House of Representatives, and $20 million to win a presidential primary, cash contributors will have the upper hand.

In one corner of the United States, mountain goats traipse across the fragile alpine flowers that speckle the snowline of Washington’s craggy Olympic Mountains. They look beautiful, but the goats don’t belong there. Seattle newspaperman E.B. Webster and his mountaineer club 80 years ago pushed to introduce the shaggy-bearded animals to the majestic mountains to […]

When conservative evangelical Christians call for action on global warming, Hindu holy men dedicate themselves to saving sacred rivers and Buddhist monks work with Islamic mullahs to try to halt the extinction crisis, boundaries are clearly being redrawn in the ongoing struggle for the political hearts and minds of the world’s believers.

The Fight Against Highly Toxic Mercury in the Environment Has Just Begun

The Bush Administration is Pushing Ahead with a Full-Scale Revival of Atomic Power The last time anyone ordered a new nuclear power plant in the United States was in 1978, but if you think that means nukes are dead forever, guess again. The Bush Administration and the nuclear industry are making an intense push to […]

Fuel cells are reaching the market, in what could be a $100 billion industry.