A Toxic Trail Leads to the Now-Closed Defense Depot The United States military produces nearly a ton of hazardous wastes every minute, an amount that surpasses even the biggest multinational corporations. More than 120 military sites have been placed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund National Priority List. Locating toxin-laden military installations near many […]
DaimlerChrysler and Ford Launch Sustainability ProjectsThe northern Brazilian state of Par?, set in the largest contiguous tropical rainforest in the world, is four times the size of Germany but has a tiny fraction of that industrialized country’s economic activity. That’s why defenders of the rainforest say it’s important to build a sustainable economy in Brazil’s […]
Laurel Hill Offers Biodiversity in the Shadow of the New Jersey Turnpike With more than 600,000 drivers each day, the northern half of the New Jersey Turnpike is among the most widely traveled roads in America. For the most part, it’s not a pretty sight. The industrial wastelands, abandoned factories and former landfills that pass […]
Arriving in Copenhagen by sea, the first thing travelers see of Denmark is a row of 20 enormous wind turbines gently spinning above the waves nearly two miles from shore. Completed last December, the Middelgrunden Wind Farm is the world’s largest offshore wind power facility. Its wind machines, each with blades 100 feet long, together […]
Virginia Tries to Duck Responsibility for Protecting Horseshoe Crabs Horseshoe crabs—actually more related to spiders than crabs—have gotten along fine, without help from human beings, for 300 million years or so, paleontologists estimate, predating even the dinosaurs. But the twentieth century has been a rough one for the horseshoe crab. It began with their existence […]
In a Wave of Acquisitions, Natural Foods Companies Are Being Gobbled Up As corporations realize the valuable market niche and consumer loyalty of many natural brands, they have begun, quite literally, to gobble them up. In the last six months alone, General Mills acquired Small Planet Foods, which holds the organic Cascadian Farms and Muir […]
Green Groups Get Results From the Internet Recently, Naomi Van Tol created a small website to fight for a forest near Memphis, Tennessee. She never expected to get responses from Romania. “I've [also] had supportive e-mail from folks from Brazil, Denmark, and other countries,” she says, “in addition to many responses from people across the […]
Citizen Ralph Runs for Real in 2000 In 1996, when Ralph Nader made his first run for the Presidency under the banner of the Green Party, he had a hard time articulating the party's many-hued platform, preferring to stick with his tried-and-true message about the dangers of multinational corporations. This year, as he runs a […]
Making the Macaw Banditos an Offer They Can't Refuse In Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos region, a former wildlife trapper named Pocho shows off the delicate snare he devised to nab blue-throated macaws for the illegal pet trade. He points out the seven notches on its stem, one for each macaw caught with this snare. Today, […]
Finnish Environmentalists Work to Stop Relentless Old-Growth Logging By appearance and reputation, Finland is resplendent in its verdant natural beauty. A flat country with expansive marine clay plains, low plateaus and small hills, fully 76 percent of the nation is covered by dense forest and woodland areas. More than 180,000 sparkling lakes and nearly as […]
