In Derek Hansen’s novel Sole Survivor, a band of plucky, environmentally minded New Zealanders triumph against a fleet of ruthless Japanese longline fishermen intent on strip-mining the seas. The book makes exciting reading, but in reality, those Japanese fishermen—and their counterparts in an international network that spans the globe—have the upper hand. Neither local law […]
Why is it that we have so much trouble making the connection between runaway population growth and environmental degradation? It seems plain that the issues that matter most to us—biodiversity, urban sprawl, loss of rainforests and old-growth trees, air and water pollution—have their roots in the incredibly successful propagation of the human species. And yet […]
There's no longer a police department in Winona, Texas. Just 17 years after a chemical waste company came to town, promising a new era of economic development, Winona is a ghost town, its three-block downtown boarded over. People have left Winona, too. One of them is Wanda Erwin. Four years ago, she wrote an open […]
“There's no place like home,” said Dorothy as she clicked her heels together and thought of Kansas. Most Americans would agree. With all the modern conveniences we now enjoy-from VCRs to takeout pizza-it's no wonder more people are staying home these days. Unfortunately, high-tech homes have a cost-according to a special report to the Massachusetts […]
To early humans, the oceans seemed vast, without limit, their bounty unfathomable. Today, the seas that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface seem very finite indeed, as more than one million fishing vessels worldwide–double the 1970 total–try to keep from running into each other as they pursue a dwindling catch.
I became vegetarian half a life ago, at age 25. Worried by then-common fears that vegetarians don’t get enough protein, I began cautiously, substituting awful-tasting peanut butter-marinara combinations for meat sauce, and doing lots of stir-fries with added protein powder. I also briefly tried the non-dairy route, drinking soy milks which, at the time, also […]
In October, a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, set off a storm of controversy when it announced that it had successfully implanted the embryo of a guar, a seriously endangered ox-like animal native to the bamboo forests of India and Burma, in an American cow. The embryo was created from the cells of a guar […]
Our timing was good. The 10 years we've been publishing E Magazine, from 1990 to 2000, have been a time of momentous change in the global ecology, pushing the modern environmental movement into frontline positions in the resource wars. Issues like global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, urban sprawl and the loss of ancient forests, […]
