Restoring The Prairie
In one of the most compelling environmental success stories of the past 30 years, the Midwest has experienced a prairie renaissance—the widespread restoration of prairies and related ecosystems to ecological health.
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Peter Garrett: Oil on Water
Australian politician Peter Garrett, the bald-headed singer from Down Under rock band Midnight Oil, is looking to morph a highly successful music career to a position as the country’s next environment minister.
A Crude Report
Prices rose sharply in the early days of the summer driving season. The national average for a gallon of regular grade gasoline on May 21 was $3.22, up 11 cents from the week before. The Center for American Progress report explains that these prices will restrict family vacations, send middle-income families digging deeper into their savings and keep consumers away from restaurants and shopping venues.
Chemical Car Seats
All car seats are not created equal. While parents fret over the toxins in plastic toys and teething rings they now have to consider what chemicals may be lurking in their car seat. The Michigan-based Ecology Center released a study in mid-May that looks at the hazards in more than 60 popular models of infant, convertible and child booster car seats.
Wildlife Refuges Get the Shaft
Despite a proposed $12 million funding increase by the Bush administration earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is still going to cut way back on services and operations at more than 500 national wildlife refuges across the country due to a mammoth $2.5 billion unfunded maintenance and operations backlog.
Semana del 17/06/2007
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He estado notando recientemente un montón de vinos orgánicos en el supermercado. ¿Uds. creen que esto va a seguir?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué es el "Sindrome de Edificio Enfermo"?
COMMENTARY: Malaysian Encounter
Joe must have been in his 80s but didn’t really seem to care how old he was. He had been running the little shanty beach-bar for decades, and told me he’d been a prisoner of both the Japanese and the British during World War II. His speciality was a Singapore sling of lethal strength, and as I sipped gingerly he told me what had gone wrong with Rantau Abang and the turtles. Fifty years ago, apparently, female turtles nested on this beach in their hundreds during July and August. Now it had fallen to a handful.
Honda Nixes Second Hybrid Model in Two Years
In what some environmentalists are calling a welcome adjustment, Honda announced last week that it is scrapping the slow-selling performance-oriented hybrid version of its Accord sedan, which debuted in 2004.
Fed Wants to Allow Logging in Owl Habitat
Last week, the Bush administration proposed allowing logging on 1.5 million acres of federal old-growth forest lands in the Pacific Northwest previously protected under 1994’s Northwest Forest Plan. It had been designated as habitat critical to the survival of the endangered northern spotted owl.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The notion that we might need nuclear energy to stave off global warming makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy that began when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 and promptly removed Jimmy Carter’s solar panels from the White House roof. It was not simply a symbolic act. Reagan also slashed alternative energy funding so deeply that it virtually put the solar industry out of business.