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Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada
Elizabeth May is the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada and a lifelong environmental activist. She is also a lawyer, educator, writer, and mother. Her most recent book, coauthored with fellow Canadian activist Maude Barlow, is Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal. Monday, 7 Aug 2000 OTTAWA, Ontario Today, being […]
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All We Are Saying Is Give Greenpeace a Chance
Hoping to rebound after several years of internal troubles, Greenpeace USA has found a new executive director: John Passacantando, cofounder and head of Ozone Action. Passacantando hopes to merge the two organizations, a proposal the groups’ boards are considering. The organizations are now quite different: Greenpeace USA has about 300,000 members (down from a million […]
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Prosthetics That Don't Cost an Arm and a Leg
An innovative recycling effort in Thailand is converting used plastic bottles and aluminum cans into prosthetic limbs for people who have been maimed by land mines. The program was launched by the Prosthesis Foundation of Thailand, which has a mission of providing free artificial limbs to every poor land mine victim in the nation. When […]
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Turning Over a New Maple Leaf
Efforts in Canada to curb climate change would have little effect on the country’s economy, according to two new reports, one by the national Department of Finance and another by the think tank Informetrica Ltd. The reports found that reducing Canadian greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, the nation’s target under […]
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We Bring Bad Things to Light
Environmentalists and concerned citizens are angry that nearly a dozen former government environmental regulators have gone to work for General Electric to help the company avoid paying for the PCB pollution it spewed over many decades into the Hudson River in New York and the Housatonic River in Massachusetts. For example, shortly after Stephen Ramsey […]
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Following Conventions
Many environmentalists and other activists who caused a ruckus during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle late last year are planning to descend on Los Angeles next week to demonstrate during the Democratic National Convention. While some protestors strutted their stuff outside last week’s Republican National Convention, many progressive groups intend to raise a […]
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Log On
Some citizens in the small logging town of Forks, Wash., are hoping to make it a high-tech haven and a model for rural communities around the world. In the past, the livelihoods of the town’s 3,460 residents revolved around logging the nearby old-growth forests, but over-cutting by logging companies and regulations like those that protect […]
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Beach Scums
The number of U.S. beach closings and advisories caused by pollution rose by 50 percent from 1997 to 1999, according to the latest annual beach quality report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Last year there were 6,160 beach closings throughout the country, more than half of them in California and most of them caused […]
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Long Island Sound-off
Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York’s Democratic Senate candidate, yesterday attacked the environmental record of her Republican opponent, Rick Lazio, and talked up her own green convictions. On a campaign tour of Long Island, Clinton touched on everything from drinking water quality to suburban sprawl, from high breast-cancer rates in the area to dying lobsters in […]
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Riding the Heat Wave
With California suffering from a heat wave and on the brink of exhausting its electrical power supply, Gov. Gray Davis (D) this week mandated new energy conservation measures in the state. Under his executive orders, the government will develop a strategy for making state-owned buildings more sustainable and energy-efficient, with eco-friendly lighting, windows, and heating […]
