British scientists attended last week’s American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle with an agenda: They want the Bush administration to reconsider its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
A Historic Agreement Protects Canada’s Largest Temperate Rainforest A historic agreement reached this April between Canadian environmental groups and Canada"s logging industry will ensure the long-term security of British Columbia"s threatened west coast Great Bear Rainforest. The groundbreaking deal promises to bring an end to almost 20 years of some of the most intense and […]
The Student Conservation Association Builds Lifelong Environmentalists In 1955, Vassar College student Elizabeth Putnam had an innovative idea for her senior thesis proposal. Her project, modeled after the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps (which put vast armies of young Americans to work on environmental projects), would organize high school and college students around the country […]
WIC, A Federal Food Program, Gets Supplemental Common Sense.
Learning How to Monkey-Wrench at Direct Action Camp Being an effective rabble-rouser takes more than fearlessness and commitment to the cause. It also takes skill, say the environmental graybeards at The Ruckus Society. Ruckus was founded in 1995 by two civil disobedience giants, Mike Roselle of Earth First! and Rainforest Action Network fame, and former […]
The Goldman Foundation Recognizes Environmental Activists "Some well-respected scientists are worried. They cite studies which show injecting cows with BGH changes the milk we drink and that it contains a higher level of another hormone believed to promote cancer in humans." This sentence never made it into the Fox news broadcast that investigative journalist team […]
In the drought-stricken farm belt of southeastern Colorado, down-on-their-luck farmers and wide-eyed environmentalists alike are looking forward to the day when many more Americans derive their electricity from the wind, an ultimately renewable, pollution-free source of energy. And the state-funded Colorado Green Project is helping make this vision into a reality.
An international coalition of BP investors announced the filing last week of a special resolution to be considered by company shareholders at the annual general meeting in London next month. The coalition, led by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, is calling on the company to adopt a public policy against drilling in protected and sensitive areas.
After Internal Turmoil, a More Focused Greenpeace is Back Fighting Polluters A growling dump truck stopped in front of the Naval Observatory, just a few feet from Vice President Dick Cheney"s residence. The truck"s back hatch opened, emptying five tons of coal onto the street courtesy of the direct-action group Greenpeace. One coal dumper told […]
Are High Immigration Levels Hurting the U.S. Economy-And the Environment? For immigration advocates, the release last May of a long-awaited National Research Council (NRC) study on the economic effects of our open door policy (around 800,000 people a year are admitted to the U.S.) was cause for rejoicing. While the NRC study did make some […]
