In its three years in business, Denver's Technology Recycling (TR) has kept 100 tons of obsolete computers out of landfills, translating into almost 15 tons of lead that our ancestors won't have to deal with. Last October, the company expanded nationwide, offering its services in 60 American cities. Illustration: Jerry Russell The fact that companies […]
How Clean is Your Bottled Water? There’s no question about it, bottled water has become a hot commodity. Americans pay $4 billion dollars a year for the privilege of drinking it. Sales of bottled water have grown nine-fold in the past 20 years, and tripled in the last 10, making it the fastest-growing segment of […]
The Society of Environmental Journalists Plays an Important–and Controversial–Role The first time Deborah Schoch saw industrial-grade DDT it was a chunk the size of a walnut. Schoch was working for the Los Angeles Times, covering the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to survey for contamination of a lower-middle-class neighborhood near two Superfund sites. Environmental writer Barry […]
Environmentalists Team Up to Reform the Magazine Industry When it comes to promoting ecological destruction, toxic pollution and wastefulness on a large scale, it’s hard to beat the magazine industry. According to Co-op America, nearly 95 percent of magazines print on paper with no recycled content, condemning 17 million trees to death by the saw […]
Teaching Good Nutrition and Sound Farming in the School Cafeteria For many students, the cafeteria bell produces visions of long lines, hair nets and perfectly molded, ice cream scoop servings of starchy, lackluster food. But as the nation renews a focus on nutrition, several inspired school districts are dismissing this grade school nightmare with higher […]
Trophy Hunters are Wiping out British Columbia’s Grizzlies Tourists jam Glendale Lodge in Knight Inlet, British Columbia, every fall to witness grizzlies feeding on pink salmon migrating upriver to spawn. They shoot the fearsome bears—with their cameras. Are British Columbia"s grizzly bears being slaughtered by hunters, or managed sustainably? It depends on who you ask.Ian […]
Too Much Of A Good Thing The first evidence of a troubled lake is blue-green algae and a foul smell. The next: dead fish littering the shore. The culprit in this crime against nature is phosphorus pollution, a growing danger to delicate lake ecosystems. Although sewage treatment plants and the elimination years ago of phosphates […]
It sounds improbable: derelict south London land transformed into fields of lavender. But you can see and smell the two and a half acres planted on abandoned local council property by the visionary BioRegional Development Group (BDG). The group was founded in suburban Sutton five years ago on the green idea of sustainably producing local […]
In 1998, the former tribal council authorized the operation in a deal that supplied free land, roads, water and electricity to Sun Prairie in exchange for five percent of the profits and up to 250 jobs for one of the poorest counties in the nation. But when local residents found out that the plan was […]
Rusted tin cans, rotting carpets, refrigerators, a playground set, coffee makers, toilet seats, paint cans, deer carcasses stuffed into garbage cans, tons of household garbage, thousands of tires—the list reads like a cross between a town dump inventory and a tag sale. But instead, these items were hauled from culverts, quarries, riverbanks, roadside turnarounds and […]
