It Didn’t Begin with Earth Day
The green momentum was building long before the first Earth Day in 1970. The activism of people like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson warned of overpopulation dangers and ecological disaster.
Emagazine’s Environmental Cover Stories: Earth Day & Sustainability
Making Earth Day Count
The celebration has had its ups and downs, but Earth Day is still a vitally important symbol for the environmental movement. It’s the annual event that millions of people remember, the milestone in their minds, their marker of environmental progress. April 22 is more than a celebration – it’s a promise to better the lives of ourselves, our nation and our world (with complete Earth Day event listings)
What killed Colette Chuda?
Four years after their daughter’s death, James and Nancy Chuda are funding new research on the link between cancers and the environment.
Toxic Shock: The Environment-Cancer Connection
Cancer is the number two killer of Americans, but scientists are still denying that environmental factors – from car exhaust to carcinogenic chemicals in our food – are largely responsible
Inside Families Who Live Off-Grid for a Greener Lifestyle
These families don’t just talk about recycling – they live it, every day, even if it means unplugging from the grid.
New Lessons from the Old World
What explains the fact that most European cities gracefully end at some point, giving way to green countryside at their edges, unlike the endless miles of sprawl in America? How is it that public life and street culture feel so much richer?
The Real Conservatives
Whatever Became of Fixing Things? A Noble Tradition is Dying, But Reuse Is Still Alive and Well
Fowling the Waters
"Factory" farming of cows, pigs and chickens is a big business in America, and the waste from this major industry is a significant health hazard.
Our Agony Over Animals
Environmentalists and animal rightists are, at least on the surface, natural allies, but in practice they’re most often at each other’s throats. But, particularly in light of important new information about how animals think and what they feel, shouldn’t environmentalists at least be listening to what the animal rights movement has to say? Can these two communities with so much in common at long last form a working relationship?
Some Like It Hot
Global warming is more than just a scientific prediction. Despite a new report from a UN consortium of 2,500 climate experts saying that the greenhouse effect imminent, a small group of naysayers continues to grab headlines.