Is There More To Your Bouquet Than Meets The Eye? Above the perfumed surface of much of the cut-flower industry lies an unlovely cloud of toxic pesticide use. With Mother’s Day nearly here, what’s a concerned consumer to do? The control and monitoring of chemical substances used in the production of both cut flowers and […]
Three’s Company–Four’s A Crowd When Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, his Malthusian vision of global warming was met with considerable skepticism. But his prescience has been proven by a panel of international climatologists, and witnessed by victims of drought, flooding and bizarre weather patterns all over the world. Now, the former […]
I have two daughters, ages four and seven, and the girls were on my mind as I was editing this issue’s comprehensive package on children’s environmental health. I think my wife and I do a reasonable job of protecting them from harm: We walk them to the school bus, make sure they look both ways […]
Alongside re-making big buildings, we ought to be laying the foundation for a clean energy future, one that will end our oil dependency that so profoundly figures into world tensions and the continued destruction of the global environment.
While many futurists predicted that we’d be enjoying the paperless office around this time, Americans are still at the epicenter of a paper blizzard. Were you under the impression that the electronic age would free us from all that?
Without a rapid shift in attitude among commercial fishermen, managers, and politicians, fishing economies–and the fish that support them–will vanish.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) studies indicate that indoor levels of pollutants may be two to five times—and occasionally more than 100 times—higher than outdoor levels.
Elections 2003 Green electoral strategy is gaining traction for non profit organizations. Environmental candidates need all the help they can get from green groups.
Modern Kitchens Try Their Hand at Dairy-less Desserts On the holiday dinner table, a delectable bounty of homemade goodies greets your eye—a veritable sea of fudge, cookies, meringues and mousse stretching out to the horizon of red-and-green tablecloth. Most people would slip into a sublime coma at the very first pass, but if you’re in […]
Tourism in Nepal Strikes a Delicate Balance To reach the best place to see Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmatha), from Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu you first take a half-hour flight on a small plane to Lukla, then walk 31 miles to the small city of Namche. The trekking is by foot, up 12,000 […]
