Undermining Lives
Throughout coal country, the manmade earthquakes caused by longwall mining wreak havoc on the land and its residents.
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Reinventing Waterland
Dutch Farmers Change the Landscape for Wildlife’s Sake.
Mutual Funds That Matter
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.
The Good Fight
Launched in 1991, this hands-on program is aimed at getting America’s school kids outside and learning about the natural world.
Ritual Mercury
Bad for What Ails You
Hijacking Hydrogen
Will big oil, coal interests and the nuclear industry control the next energy revolution?
A Burning Dilemma
Aromatic Products May Pollute Indoor Air and Your Health The same health-conscious homeowner who would never dream of allowing cigarette smoke inside the house might be burning aromatherapy candles with the idea that they promote a healthy, relaxing atmosphere. But burning candles could actually have the opposite effect: Scientific testing has shown that candles can […]
Death and Taxes
Resisters Refuse to Pay for War and Its Environmental Fallout Like most working Americans, Connecticut resident Rosa Packard files her taxes every spring. But since 1981, she has omitted one thing: the check. Instead she substitutes a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) explaining that, as a Quaker, an environmentalist and a conscientious objector, […]
Tools for Green Living
Once you have the perfect environmentally friendly gift, why cover it in traditional throwaway wrapping? Instead, try reusable wrapping from Wrapsacks. These fun cotton gift bags are available in six sizes, including candle and wine shapes. All you have to do is slip your gift in and tie on a card.
Tracking the Bighorn
The thick chaparral of a remote region in the Sespe Wilderness, part of the Los Padres National Forest, in Ventura, California, has concealed a lost herd of desert bighorn sheep for more than five years. But now they’re out in the open. The desert bighorn sheep of the Sespe Wilderness in California had been given […]