Protecting Paradise
The Turks and Caicos government has banned jet-skiing, waterskiing & spearfishing & is focusing on wastewater “pretreatment” for area hotels to curb chemical & fertilizer runoff…
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Don Carlos Mendez and the Culture of Fire
Don Carlos Mendez: One Guatemalan’s Fight Against Slash-and-Burn Farming
Immigration
Two Views Melanie Mitsue Okamoto, campaign organizer, Political Ecology Group: In the past decade, the anti-immigrant lobby, which includes groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Carrying Capacity Network, has jumped on the “green” bandwagon to invent a new form of scapegoating that targets immigrants as a cause of our environmental […]
Countdown to Six Billion
Why is it that we have so much trouble making the connection between runaway population growth and environmental degradation? It seems plain that the issues that matter most to us—biodiversity, urban sprawl, loss of rainforests and old-growth trees, air and water pollution—have their roots in the incredibly successful propagation of the human species. And yet […]
Now We Are Six
In October, World Population Will Reach Six Billion. Can the Earth Carry the Load?
Alaska in Miniature
With our two young kids in tow, ages two and eight months, my husband Matt and I drove nearly 10,000 miles from Los Angeles to Alaska and back, spending a month in a cabin on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
The Desert’s Open Veins
Native Rights and Water Fights in Albuquerque Sonny Weahkee, a young Navajo with long flowing hair and a very gentle manner, pointed to the faint painted image of a dancing man in the volcanic rock of West Mesa, in a quiet national monument that seemed worlds away from the bustle of nearby Albuquerque. The images, […]
When Green Means Stop
There's no longer a police department in Winona, Texas. Just 17 years after a chemical waste company came to town, promising a new era of economic development, Winona is a ghost town, its three-block downtown boarded over. People have left Winona, too. One of them is Wanda Erwin. Four years ago, she wrote an open […]
Toxic Targets
Polluters That Dump on Communities of Color Are Finally Being Brought to Justice
Birth Control or Border Patrol?
The Sierra Club Votes Down an Immigration Initiative There are few issues more politically charged than immigration policy, so it’s hardly surprising that voices were raised and names were called when the Sierra Club debated the subject last spring. At issue was a ballot initiative proposed by an insurgent group within the club, Sierrans for […]