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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision

Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Tuesday, 16 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador Here I am, an environmental manager who has worked with private Latin American companies for over 13 years, sitting on the other side of the table. Since November, I have been actively […]

To Know a Whale

Swan Song

An Argentine court ordered the government this week to prevent a British ship, the Pacific Swan, from carrying spent nuclear fuel into the country’s “jurisdictional” waters. The country’s Foreign Ministry said those waters extend about 12 nautical miles from the shore. But Greenpeace, which calls the ship’s cargo the “the equivalent of a floating Chernobyl,” […]

People for Chapter 11

People for the USA!, the national nonprofit wise-use group, is closing shop later this month, due to a lack of funding and a decline in membership. The group began with a different name in 1988 as a mouthpiece for “rural Americans” who were up in arms over enviros’ efforts to stop old-growth logging in the […]

Argwings and a Prayer

Kenyan journalist Argwings Odera was arrested and tortured last month for his attempt to report on protests against the Sondu-Miriu Dam being built on a river that drains into Lake Victoria. Locals and environmentalists, including the Africa Water Network, say land for the hydro project has been taken without fair compensation and the dam will […]

Anti-Norton Virus

National environmental leaders held a press conference this morning in Washington, D.C., to announce their formal opposition to Gale Norton, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary. Enviros earlier this week sent a letter to all senators and urged them not to appoint her, saying that she held “extreme” views on property rights and that confirming […]

Neat-o Research Topic: The Effects of Harpooning on Whale Mortality

The U.S. and Japan have teamed up to ask the International Whaling Commission to evaluate whether killing whales to study them produces better research findings than studying them using non-lethal means. The IWC banned whale hunting in 1986, but Japan has continued to hunt the mammals, saying that the hunts are for scientific research allowed […]

With a "Whoosh Whoosh" Here and a "Whir Whir" There

The border of Washington and Oregon will soon be home to the world’s largest wind farm, producing enough power for 70,000 homes in 11 Western states. The wind-power company FPL Energy of Florida is beginning construction of the 450-turbine, 300-megawatt project next month and hopes to have it on-line by the end of the year. […]

The Best Defense Is a Bad Offense

Enviros have taken offense at a 1989 speech by Gale Norton, President-elect Bush’s choice for Interior secretary, in which she suggested that property owners have a “right to pollute.” Worse, in a 1996 speech to the same audience, the Independence Institute, a conservative think tank on whose board she has served, Norton compared conservatives’ attempts […]

ANWR Sedate

The White House said yesterday that President Clinton will not designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a national monument because he believe that the area is already protected from oil and gas drilling. President-elect Bush and his nominees for Interior and Energy secretaries vigorously support drilling in the refuge. Enviros have been […]