Being a smart consumer is one of the best ways a woman can prevent environmental illness, says Tina Eshaghpour, women’s health researcher for the Women’s Foundation of California. "I always assumed if a product is on the shelf, someone has proven it to be safe," she says. "But that is not the case."
The interconnection between environmental awareness and better lives for poor women is clear. Women the world over, in developing nations on every continent, are working to protect the environment and improve their lives—and proving that the two are not mutually exclusive.
Watchdog and Research Organizations "As You Sow, (415)391-3212, www.asyousow.org. Represents SRI investors in a "dialogue" with corporations. "Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), (617)247-0700, www.ceres.org. A coalition of environmental, investor and advocacy groups that holds companies to a 10-point code of environmental conduct. "Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), (212)870-2295, www.iccr.org. A coalition of religious […]
After her five-year-old daughter, Colette, died from a nonhereditary form of childhood cancer, Nancy Chuda knew something in the environment was terribly wrong (see "What Killed Colette Chuda," cover story, May/June 1995).
Will Utility Deregulation Finally Unplug 'Dirty' Electricity? At United Illuminating Company's harborside Unit 3 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, built in 1969, Kentucky coal rides in on a conveyor belt to five huge blue silos that can each hold 700 tons. When pulverized to the consistency of talcum powder and burned in UI's huge boilers at 2,500 […]
Animal waste from corporate-owned factory farms has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states
Volunteers Get Dirty on International Organic Farms The flock sits safely in the stable, and the nearby streets are silent. The tranquil evenings of Pradorrey, a village in northwestern Spain, are reward enough for a day spent tending sheep and harvesting grapes, but dinner—perhaps of fried sardines with goat cheese, bread and olive oil—awaits as […]
Pink flamingos are synonymous with Florida, just as tumbleweeds say “Nevada.” But did you know both are foreign species? Yup. Don't assume everything you see in the wild belongs there, even if it does become a state bird like the ring-necked pheasant in South Dakota. “I'm fascinated by the way so many exotic species become […]
Though many socially conscious mutual funds have screens for environmental issues and do shareholder activism, there are only half a dozen that make environmental issues a priority.
Launched in 1991, this hands-on program is aimed at getting America’s school kids outside and learning about the natural world.
