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Kathryn Schulz reviews Monster of God by David Quammen
What this world needs," opined the nature writer David Quammen in a 1984 column for Outside magazine, "is a good vicious 60-foot-long Amazon snake." He was kidding, thankfully; the rest of the column goes on to describe the human tendency to massively exaggerate the size of anacondas in the Amazon. Now, though, 19 years later, Quammen has written Monster of God, a book arguing that precisely what the world does need is very large, very predatory animals.
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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
David Waskow is an international policy analyst at Friends of the Earth U.S., where he works on trade policy, corporate accountability, and the environment. Monday, 17 Nov 2003 MIAMI, Fla. It may as well be called the World Trade Summit Beach Tour: next stop, Miami. The last stop was in Cancun, Mexico, in September, where […]
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Hospital Scrubs
Connecticut Hospital Adopts Green Cleaning Regime Surgery patients and birthing mothers in Greenwich, Conn., will no longer be assaulted by that “hospital smell” in most parts of Greenwich Hospital now that the facility has made a switch to using eco-friendly cleaning products. The hospital is thought to be among the first in the U.S. to […]
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Haiti Crimes
Logging Leads to Devastating Floods and Erosion in Haiti Flooding and erosion have become such massive problems in the area around Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince that they can wipe out shanties, cars, even whole neighborhoods. A number of human-caused factors contribute to the devastation, including poor irrigation and drainage practices, unregulated construction on hillsides, and, […]
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Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow
E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods A corn product developed by the Anglo-Swiss biotech company Syngenta will likely be approved for sale by the European Union next month, ending a five-year de facto ban on new genetically modified foods on the continent. A number of other GM product approvals are expected […]
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I Wear My Sunglasses to Fight
Anonymous National Park Service Employees Speak of Broad Discontent They showed up for a news conference at the National Press Building cloaked in dark glasses, hats, and scarves, used a voice disguiser, and hid behind a thick curtain. But they weren’t mafia informants or witnesses in a spy case; they were longtime employees of the […]
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Air Raid
Alaska Gives Nod to Aerial Pesticide Spraying In a blow to environmentalists, Alaska has approved controversial regulations governing aerial pesticide spraying, set to go into effect at the end of the month. The new regulations establish a 35-foot “pesticide-free zone” around water bodies, as well as a secondary buffer zone designed to prevent chemicals from […]
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Jock Itch
Environmental Problems Alarm Athletes Here’s a new green group you may want to join: Jocks for the Environment. Actually, that group doesn’t exist, but people who might identify with the description are gathering today in Tokyo for the Global Forum for Sport and the Environment. Participants (including Greg LeMond, three-time Tour de France winner) will […]
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Drug Busting
Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals A coalition of green groups and consumer advocates took the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court yesterday in an effort to halt experimental planting of “biopharmaceutical crops,” plants genetically engineered to produce medicine. The coalition, which includes Friends of the Earth and the Center for Food Safety, wants the USDA […]
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Chromium and Punishment
New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case A 20-year battle over chromium pollution in northern New Jersey came to an end yesterday when three companies agreed to pony up $17 million to clean hundreds of sites contaminated by the deadly chemical. From the 1890s to the 1950s, Honeywell International, Tierra Solutions, and PPG […]
