Wal-Mart’s usual procedure is to colonize open space or take over suburban shopping centers. It doesn’t usually locate in center cities, and that’s what makes its plans for New Orleans—as part of a Kabacoff master plan for replacing a demolished housing project—so unusual, and so reviled.
For many people, cacti are to plants what bulldogs are to house pets—the ugliest examples of the species. But people afflicted with cactophilia are nevertheless drawn to the plant, says Tony Mace, webmaster of the Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall. Mace estimates that there are 500 cactus clubs and over 40,000 collectors worldwide. Some enthusiasts […]
With a world population of less than 1,000, the future of the California Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora draytonni) looked bleak. The poor frog was beset by habitat destruction, harvesting, predation by non-native species (bullfrog, bluegill, mosquitofish), and drought. Things only grew worse when, in 1995, Congress voted a moratorium on any new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listing of endangered or threatened species.
Selling Sustainability Business people and environmentalists are not natural allies, but they may find common ground on 135 acres of land in Petersburg, Missouri. The site, resting along the Missouri River bottom, will be converted into the nation’s first physical location for The Institute of Ecolonomics. Alice Billings Ecolonomics, a term coined by actor and […]
Helping to save the planet’s oldest tropical rainforest is more about empowering people than rescuing trees. That’s the philosophy of Earth Island Institute’s Borneo Project, which for the past 10 years has aided indigenous peoples of the world’s third-largest island in preserving both their forests and culture. Begun as a sister-city relationship between Berkeley, California, […]
If the planned relocation of Alabama’s Greene County jail goes ahead as scheduled, prisoners may be sentenced to inhaling toxic waste as part of their incarceration.
Amid the towering, old-growth forests of British Columbia, American college students are working alongside aboriginal foresters to map the location of cedar trees that bear signs of ancestral use, a project that will help preserve the history of the Nuu-chah-nulth Indians.
Instead of hiring guys with weed-whackers and herbicides, more and more California cities and local homeowners associations are turning to goats.
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 […]
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.
