Sierra Club Embraces Hook-n-Bullet Greens
Last week the non-profit Sierra Club launched a new website, sierrasportsmen.org, which appeals directly to the environmental concerns of hunters and anglers.
Currents
Rockefellers Push ExxonMobil to Look Beyond Oil
Fifteen members of the Rockefeller family publicly called on ExxonMobil Corporation, the company which emerged from family patriarch John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire, to start looking beyond short-term oil profits in planning for a carbon-constrained future.
Save the Coral Triangle
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) last week announced that it is committing some $63 million toward preserving biodiversity in Asia’s so-called Coral Triangle.
COMMENTARY: Scenes from the Summit
For residents of Hawaii, who are now paying the highest average price for gasoline in the nation, discontent is spreading fast.
Thinking Electric
Make way for a new entrant in the greenest car on the road contest. The retooled Norwegian carmaker Think is partnering with two of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms to put consumers behind the wheel of an all-electric car.
Bush Fiddles with Science (Again)
A new survey of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists adds further fuel to the growing firestorm over political interference by the Bush White House on scientific matters.
COMMENTARY: Captain Planet Returns!
Captain Planet is back.
Glossed Over
Researchers are only beginning to study the long-term effects of toxic chemicals on nail salon workers, 95 percent of whom are female, and more than 40 percent of whom are of Asian ethnicity.
Who Owns the Tides?
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is handing out preliminary permits to pursue a hot new form of “hydrokinetic” energy.
Wave Power
Proposals for wave energy exploration are exploding from the Pacific coast to a small Alaskan village, but there’s little thought given to the long-term environmental consequences.