Environmentalists Team Up to Reform the Magazine Industry When it comes to promoting ecological destruction, toxic pollution and wastefulness on a large scale, it’s hard to beat the magazine industry. According to Co-op America, nearly 95 percent of magazines print on paper with no recycled content, condemning 17 million trees to death by the saw […]
Teaching Good Nutrition and Sound Farming in the School Cafeteria For many students, the cafeteria bell produces visions of long lines, hair nets and perfectly molded, ice cream scoop servings of starchy, lackluster food. But as the nation renews a focus on nutrition, several inspired school districts are dismissing this grade school nightmare with higher […]
Trophy Hunters are Wiping out British Columbia’s Grizzlies Tourists jam Glendale Lodge in Knight Inlet, British Columbia, every fall to witness grizzlies feeding on pink salmon migrating upriver to spawn. They shoot the fearsome bears—with their cameras. Are British Columbia"s grizzly bears being slaughtered by hunters, or managed sustainably? It depends on who you ask.Ian […]
Following Failed Trade Talks, the Debate Rages On When a world conference on the once-sleepy issue of trade came to Seattle late last November, the press got the soundbyte they were looking for: 50,000 demonstrators crowded the city, leaving a trail of shattered windows and police barricades in their wake. But despite a handful of […]
Waste Exchanges Save Energy and Landfill Space Ancient wisdom teaches that one person's trash is another person's gold. The pundits never predicted, however, that the “gold” would take names like “diphenylacetonitrile” and “Povidone K-30 BP/EP.” There's no magic alchemy involved—just a growing business called waste exchange. Waste exchanges, also known as materials exchanges, are services […]
Is the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) dangerously alarmist? Does Consumer Reports magazine “use junk science to develop ‘sensational’ reports that advance the…extreme environmental positions” of its publisher, Consumers Union? Does second-hand smoke cause “no added risk” to people living or working with smokers? Are saccharin, formaldehyde insulation, pesticides, PCBs and bovine growth hormone […]
Americans may love their cars, but more and more of us are learning to love being car-free….
Toxic Trains May Be Rumbling Through Your Town * ITEM: In the pre-dawn hours of April 11, 1996, along railroad tracks one mile west of the rural Montana community of Alberton, four Montana Rail Link tank cars suddenly derail. The largest mixed chemical release in railroad history—and the second biggest chlorine spill—sends a plume of […]
Tobacco Growers Look Elsewhere to Save the Family Farm Dorothy Robertson has a friend who says “the best fertilizer in the world is the shadow of the farmer.” But the shadow falling over Robertson's farm, and those of 124,000 other tobacco farmers in the U.S., is that of Big Tobacco, and it's certainly not helping […]
The Family Behind Hip Clothier The Gap Logs the Redwoods Founded in ultra-hip 1969 San Francisco and named for the generational split that was then ravaging America, The Gap Inc. clothing empire has made billions selling once-egalitarian blue jeans as fashion items. Now some charge that The Gap’s founder/owners, the Fisher family, are selling out […]
