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John Seager: Straight Talk about Population

E Magazine talked to John Seager, the recently appointed president and CEO of Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) a week after World Population Day July 11. Seager is a veteran population activist, having served at Population Connection for nearly a decade. He is also a former Environmental Protection Agency and Congressional aide, serving under seven-term U.S. Representative Peter Kostmayer, who he succeeds at the helm of the 90,000-member Population Connection.

A Banner Coalition

Lillian Robinson doesn’t want a waste wood incinerator built across the street from the local elementary school. But it’s hard to persuade her Flint, Michigan neighbors. "The word ‘incinerator’ means nothing to them," she says. "They’ve never seen one."

Chicago Students Green Their habitat

Years ago, Chicago’s Lincoln park Casting Club members would gather to thread flies and swap lies in a tree-sheltered brick building near Lake Michigan. But for the past 12 years their fieldhouse sat vacant, collecting red algae and huge heating bills.

Guatemala: Trading the Rainforest for Oil?

The tropical forests of Guatemala’s largest and northernmost state, the Peten, cover nearly two million hectares (nearly 5 million acres). They contain numerous rare and endangered animal species, and more than 400 species of trees. But the Peten is also rich in oil. And like other Latin American rainforest countries, Guatemala needs oil.

Oceans In Crisis

We are fascinated by oceans – the waves, the smell of salt air, the sense that nature hasn’t changed in millions of years. But the same forces that degrade our land, from industrialization to habitat destruction to overpopulation, now threaten oceans around the world.

Homemade Music

For musician Skip La Plante, heaps of grabage are nothing more that great opportunities to make music.

Solar Nanotech Coming of Age

For decades, sustainability gurus have been prattling on about the promise of solar power and other renewable energy sources. But in what is beginning to look like the "new, new thing" to technology analysts, solar power might be finally coming of age thanks to the next generation of tiny flexible solar panels–not to mention billions of dollars in backing from some of Silicon Valley’s biggest investors.

Green Groups Launch ExxonMobil Boycott

A group of environmental and social justice organizations have launched a coordinated campaign in protest of petroleum giant ExxonMobil’s efforts to cast doubts on the science of global warming and attempts to lobby for opening the still-pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.

California Beckons the Electric Cars

California has a better idea to restore its economy: Bring on the entrepreneurs to build electric cars, much the way the wizards of Silicon Valley brought us the personal computer. But Detroit wants to overturn the California clean air mandate that has started the boldest revolution in transportation since the Model T.

Haiti on the Brink of Ecocide

Rural Haitians, caught between a murderous military government and an international embargo, see their former tropical paradise fast becoming a desert. The political crisis may be solved by the return of President Aristide, but the environmental damage may take a century to heal.

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