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.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Conservationists and most butterfly breeders want the same thing; healthy, robust butterflies populating the Earth. Yet, heated opposition divides the two camps. Conservationists believe the ceremonial release of farmed butterflies has an unknown potential to negatively impact native species. Breeders believe their business not only enables a magical moment with nature, but helps to increase butterfly populations.
