Your cover story "Message in a Bottle" (September/October 2003) draws ironic similarities to the SUV craze. Americans are not buying purity in a glass or open road freedom. They’re buying urban cowboy images and feel-good escapes as they consume regular water and sit in regular traffic.
Paul Gorman has been a communicator all his life, so it’s not surprising that his work since 1993 as the executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) involves networking among major Christian and Jewish denominations.
In our capitalist world, success in business is measured almost solely by financial profit. Companies that make some of the most dangerous and unhealthy products, like weapons and cigarettes, are exceedingly profitable and thus "successful," even though their products diminish our quality of life.
I was in shock (but not awe) watching President Bush announce on TV, during the first wave of large peace demonstrations, that we were going to war in Iraq despite all the oppositionbut that the protests in the streets demonstrated the kind of "freedom" that America stands for. It appears to be lost on Mr. […]
People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) Are Becoming the New Homeless
Are you feeling tired most of the time? Does your spouse have a continuous cold and your child a mysterious rash? Chemical sensitivities could be responsible for these ailments. And your house—as well as the stuff in it—is likely to be the source of your discomforts. and its taste was reformulated in recent years to appeal to Americans.
This just in from the Cato Institute: Renewable energy is "expensive, environmentally counterproductive and unsustainable." Cato President Robert L. Bradley says that electricity from renewable energy plants "is, on average, twice as expensive as electricity from the most economical fossil-fuel alternative." There’s a reason for that, and Cato-an influential conservative think-tank-should take some of the blame.
Who knew there would be so many responsible and sustainable choices in furniture and floor coverings available now for home redecorating?
The United States is the world’s largest producer of soybeans, although you wouldn’t know that from the American diet, which mostly takes in soy from soy sauce. But soy can serve as an alternative to meat or milk, create new organic inks and prevent certain kinds of cancer. Asians have known about these benefits for […]
Ecuadoran Ecotourism Tries to Protect an Ancient Land Threading down the Capahuari River in an eight-passenger motorized canoe, tourists stare in awe at the dreadlock vines dipping into dung-colored waters along the river’s edge. Electric blue butterflies tickle the air and turtles slip from mottled logs. The only break in the wall of green comes […]
