Just a few years ago, Internet purists were arguing that cyberspace should be kept totally free of vulgar commercial content. In 1995, with 30 million users around the world (76 percent of them in the U.S.), it’s the ad-driven part of the World Wide Web that’s growing the fastest. In 1994, there were only 588 commercial Web sites; now there are more than 15,000, with 73 new ones added every day. Some 66 percent of Internet "servers" now handle commercial traffic exclusively.
Animal Rights, opinion by Doug Moss, Publisher, E, Environmental Magazine
I never much enjoyed the zoo. As a child, the prospect of a day’s visit with my classmates sounded fun, but beyond the attraction of a day off from school, singing on the bus, and the cotton candy, the experience was usually pretty depressing. The place stunk like a huge cat box, and the animals […]
In its three years in business, Denver's Technology Recycling (TR) has kept 100 tons of obsolete computers out of landfills, translating into almost 15 tons of lead that our ancestors won't have to deal with. Last October, the company expanded nationwide, offering its services in 60 American cities. Illustration: Jerry Russell The fact that companies […]
Earth Day 2000 is shaping up as a major, watershed event. In addition to thousands of smaller celebrations, a huge April 22 rally in Washington will feature musicians and speakers reaching the multitudes from a solar-powered stage. E’s coverage in this issue is designed both to highlight the spectacular array of events taking place across […]
Americans love to gripe about paying their taxes, and April 15 is both a day of national dread and the butt of a thousand bad jokes. But the same people who crowd local town halls to complain about a minuscule jump in their mill rates are quick to change the channel when they happen across […]
Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife (see Conversations, this issue), got it right when he called the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park “the greatest wildlife restoration effort in our nation's history.” So why is a federal judge ordering that the wolves be removed? E's cover story this issue is about predators and […]
There is nothing like a consensus on caring for the American environment, and given the impressive array of competing interests, there probably never will be. But if there's one issue on which we thought everyone agreed-from Earth First! activists in northern California to Manhattan power brokers-it's the importance of recycling. Last summer, however, The New […]
Right up there with air and water, one of the last things in nature we should be tampering with is our food — at least not without due consideration of all the ramifications.
Jerry Russell Illustration The United Nations declared 2002 the International Year of Ecotourism to promote this fast-growing segment of the $3.5 trillion travel industry partly because of the great potential it has for helping the world’s economically depressed areas. The UN also hopes the industry will take stock of how well it is doing so […]
