Pulp Friction: Debating the Paper Alternatives
Hemp- and kenaf-based paper, often made with imported pulp, is now widely used in environmental circles, but there are a fair number of dissenters.
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Providing Support
To help address the fears and assuage the frustration brought on by specific childhood ailments, these groups provide families with practical advice, information and support: Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning — strives to change perceptions about childhood lead poisoning and to develop and implement national prevention programs.
Stemming the Tide
Who’s Who in Fighting Overpopulation Photo: Population Services International Family planning works. That’s the message from numerous activists and politicians from both parties, including many pro-life supporters. A 30 percent reduction in unintended pregnancies would result in 200,000 fewer unintended births and some 800,000 fewer abortions in the U.S. each year, according to a study […]
Doin’ a Body Good? Studies Link rBGH-Produced Milk and Increased Cancer Risk
Those white mustaches on the smiling faces of celebrities may be a clever way to promote the “milk does a body good” idea. But there’s nothing amusing about increasing evidence of much higher rates of breast and prostate cancers in people who have elevated levels of Insulin-Like Growth-Factor 1 (IGF-1), the hormone that increases milk […]
Held in Trust
Looking for an innovative way to protect the environment and receive valuable financial rewards? If you or someone in your family owns land that you’d like to see protected, donating the property to a land trust may make sense. It’s probably the only personal statement about controlling urban sprawl you can make that won’t infuriate […]
In Transit
Corporate Commuter Plans Can Cut Costs–and Hassles Every morning, if you're like 75 percent of American workers, you face gridlocked highways for your solo drive to the office. Why? Because you think that the alternatives, like the train, bus or a car pool, will take money out of your pocket, or just be downright inconvenient. […]
Chile’s Salmon Stakes
The provincial outpost of Puerto Montt is home to one of Latin America’s fastest-growing industries: farmed salmon. If everything goes as scheduled, over the next five years an estimated $8 billion in salmon exports will flow from this sparsely populated backwater. While traditional fishing companies around the world sink into bankruptcy because of the plummeting […]
Bitter Days For National Parks
The impetuous rush to balance the federal budget is likely to spell more disaster for the National Park Service (see "Parks in Peril," March/April 1996). The latest financial projections for 2002 call for an estimated $650 million cut from the Department of the Interior’s budget, with a proposed $70 million budget cut from the Park Service alone.
Visitor Centers
If You Build It, Will They Come? When Hurricane Mitch opened up a prison in the port city of La Ceiba, Honduras in 1998, several escaped prisoners scrambled up the Cangrejal River and spent the night in the newly inaugurated visitor center on the boundary of Pico Bonito National Park. It was certainly not the […]
Mapping a Greener Future
Since the time of the ancient Babylonians, maps have played pivotal roles in human history—they’ve been used to chart voyages of discovery, find buried treasure and fight wars. Now, maps are being used to chart a path toward a greener, more environmentally sustainable future. Green Map System Communities and regions around the world are using […]