The Auto Industry Fights to Save Gas Guzzlers From 1992 to 1997, the number of sport-utility vehicles on American roads doubled, to a whopping 13.8 million vehicles. In the same period, the category of “light trucks” (which includes pickups and vans) gained national hegemony, outnumbering cars for the first time. The result of the SUV […]
Environmental Radio Does the Unexpected In the early 1950s, many assumed that the advent of television would make radio obsolete. But radio proved more durable than that. There are now almost 14,000 radio stations across the United States and Canada, according to the 1999 edition of the Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook. A full 5,000 of […]
Our timing was good. The 10 years we've been publishing E Magazine, from 1990 to 2000, have been a time of momentous change in the global ecology, pushing the modern environmental movement into frontline positions in the resource wars. Issues like global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, urban sprawl and the loss of ancient forests, […]
Is "Environmental Republican" an Oxymoron? “Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democratic Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy.” So railed Alaskan Congressman Don Young (R-AK) on Alaska Public Radio in 1996. It was a typical diatribe from the Republican politician, who, as chair of […]
Buying Back Boats To Solve The Overfishing Crisis In 1994, the most recent year for which figures exist, the world spent $124 billion to support a fishing industry that generated revenues of only $70 billion. In other words, we lost $54 billion in our global effort to build a fleet big enough to catch, in […]
Tree-Free and Chlorine-Free Papers Offer Sound Alternatives to Forest Destruction.
A Northern California Sustainable Energy Showcase Revolves Around the Sun.
The Case For Energy Conservation.
When, in 1983, the London Dumping Convention banned the disposal of high-level nuclear waste into the oceans, there was no shortage of protests.
Choking the seas with man-made toxins.
