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The Green Money Trap
For most environmentalists the first law of money is "Spending less is best." That’s a fast way of saying the less we buy the better off the environment. As a general rule, it’s a good one: America’s prodigious and unsustainable shopping habits are creating pollution and depleting resources as fast as you can say "GNP growth."
Hostel Environment
Affordable Lodging for the Green Spirited From alpine forests to urban jungles and tropical savannahs, youth hostels offer a friendly atmosphere for global eco-travelers. Since the international youth hostel movement began in 1907, nearly 5,000 hostels have sprung up around the globe—and some are taking on environmental agendas. The first hostel was on the classroom […]
Getting Your Goat
Instead of hiring guys with weed-whackers and herbicides, more and more California cities and local homeowners associations are turning to goats.
Park and Ride to the Park
Last May, Zion National Park in Utah initiated a mandatory shuttle bus transportation system for visitors to Zion Canyon, greatly reducing auto access to the most scenic portions of one of America’s most prized national parks. A typical traffic backup at Zion National Park, which now has mandatory shuttles. “Zion,” a Hebrew word meaning a […]
How Low Can They Go?
Untouched by the last glacier, southwestern Wisconsin is hilly, wooded and wild–home to Old Order Amish, back-to-the land homesteaders and third-generation dairy farmers. On weekends, tourists from Madison, Milwaukee and Minneapolis come to canoe the picturesque and crooked Kickapoo River.
Backlash On The Bayou
It’s not easy being green in an industry-friendly state like Louisiana—particularly when you have the audacity to face-off against the rich and powerful…and win. After an aggressive two-year battle by the Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic (TELC) on behalf of the residents of Convent, Louisiana, Japan-based Shintech announced last year that it was abandoning a […]
Holes in the Ark
Questioning Species Protection Plans In the biblical story of the Great Flood, Noah built an ark to preserve samples of every living creature. Today, the rising tide of global extinction threatens to eliminate half of all species within 100 years (see the cover story this issue). The U.S. Interior Department, which has created more than […]
Women’s Work in Mexico
At the Hotel Taselotzin, located in the scenic Eastern Sierras, you"ll find local women doing the bookkeeping, managing, marketing and organic gardening for their own internationally acclaimed eco-tourism project.
Sounds Natural
A Consumer Guide to Music From the Earth Though the haunting and soaring sounds of the deep sea now echo in our consciousness, before the late 1960s human beings knew nothing of this hidden sonic world. It was an underwater microphone that first allowed Roger Payne and Scott McVay to hear the astonishing sounds of […]