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 […]
Can Britain’s Mad Cow Disease Come Here? At first, Doug McEwen forgot things—like, in the summer of 1998, his phone number and address. The symptoms got worse, but doctors still couldn’t find anything wrong. Finally, the otherwise healthy 30-year-old quit his job, since he felt he could no longer perform well. Six months later, when […]
As More Women Take Up Hunting, Is This Deadly Sport Becoming More "Ethical"? Is there such a thing as “ethical hunting”? A growing number of outdoor sportsmen (and, increasingly, women) say there is, and they decry the tendency to lump all hunters together as thrill killers motivated by bloodlust. “We’ve been tolerant of the negative […]
Don Carlos Mendez: One Guatemalan’s Fight Against Slash-and-Burn Farming
Native Rights and Water Fights in Albuquerque Sonny Weahkee, a young Navajo with long flowing hair and a very gentle manner, pointed to the faint painted image of a dancing man in the volcanic rock of West Mesa, in a quiet national monument that seemed worlds away from the bustle of nearby Albuquerque. The images, […]
The Sierra Club Votes Down an Immigration Initiative There are few issues more politically charged than immigration policy, so it’s hardly surprising that voices were raised and names were called when the Sierra Club debated the subject last spring. At issue was a ballot initiative proposed by an insurgent group within the club, Sierrans for […]
