Six years after the world saw incriminating footage of a Princess Cruises ship dumping 20 plastic garbage bags into the sea (See In Brief, "Getting the Goods on Ocean Dumpers," July/August 1995), the cruise line has apparently cleaned up its act and won recognition from The Center for Marine Conservation (CMC) as a leading conservation-friendly cruise line.
How green is Hollywood? The film community’s environmental image has been endangered by its reliance on lauan, a rare tropical hardwood from Southeast Asia, popular for construction projects on Hollywood movie sets (See "Green Contradictions in Hollywood," In Brief, July/August 1995).
Ben Franklin’s choice for our national bird, the wild turkey (Meleagris Gallopavo) has not always had an easy time finding a place in its homeland.
They may not leap tall buildings in single bounds, but California grade school kids are becoming true heroes with the state’s Adopt-A-Species program. In a state that has more endangered and threatened species than any other in the continental U.S., kid volunteers have found a way to turn their youthful energies and enthusiasm into a force to save animals and rare plants.
While the Olympic Games are trying to bring the nations of the world together in sport, the environment can suffer in several ways: from the need to construct and update event venues, from the sheer numbers of visitors during the two-week events (and the associated pollution from traffic), and from the waste that is left behind once the participants go home.
On American Beach on South Amelia Island, Florida lives MaVynee Betsch, a woman of substance. Known by locals as "The Beach Lady," Betsch has made it her full-time mission since 1975 to preserve and protect American Beach from development and destruction.
The green-sounding Environmental Technology Challenge, a public-private partnership involving both the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and companies that paid $25,000 each to be “founding leaders,” was launched with much fanfare early this year in central Florida, Portland, Oregon, Baltimore, Chicago, and Chula Vista, California. The stated purpose: to encourage other corporations and municipalities to […]
On American Beach on South Amelia Island, Florida lives MaVynee Betsch, a woman of substance. Known by locals as "The Beach Lady," Betsch has made it her full-time mission since 1975 to preserve and protect American Beach from development and destruction.
By some measures, Switzerland is the greenest nation in the industrialized world. Not only does it boast one of the densest rail systems, it also leads Europe by recycling 50 percent of all household waste. Annual garbage production is just 880 pounds per person—half the U.S. figure. These municipal recycling bins in Interlaken, Switzerland separate […]
A burly grizzly bear strode across a meadow in Yellowstone National Park last spring, barely noticed by grazing herds of elk and bison. The bear, weak from hibernation, was focused on procuring an easier meal, such as scavenged bison carcasses and the tiny white blossoms that speck the forest edges. A keystone species in several […]
