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Well, It's New Jersey — What Did You Expect?
Despite Gov. Christine Todd Whitman’s (R) campaign to make New Jersey a national model for controlling growth and protecting open space, sprawl is still spreading out of control in the state. New Jersey’s failures demonstrate anew how money and the threat of job losses can undermine public land preservation policy. Merrill Lynch recently pushed through […]
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Bite Me
Despite mounting controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods, many U.S. farmers plan to plant GM crops again this year because they are easier and cheaper to grow and there’s still a big market for them in the U.S. The major biotechnology companies, including Monsanto and Novartis, have held forums around the country this winter to […]
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Let's Hope It's Not Oil-Slick Willy
President Clinton said yesterday that he will announce steps soon to deal with the rising costs of gasoline and oil. Enviros hope he’ll refuse to consider the environmentally damaging options being bandied about, which include removing the moratorium on offshore oil drilling and opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. Columnist Charles Krauthammer […]
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Make Mine Manure-Covered
Re: Food for Thought Dear Editor: As a fan of organic produce and a local newspaper editor, I appreciated Donella Meadows’s article. She does a great job of rounding up and then refuting the stale critique of organic produce offered by Dennis Avery and his ilk. We need more articles like this in the mainstream […]
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Better Homes and Gardens
Mary Cordaro has made a career out of what she learned trying to cope with her chemical sensitivities and allergies, starting a green design business that helps people make healthy homes free of harmful chemicals, lead, dust, and mildew. Cordaro has painstakingly sought out natural furnishings, paints, and building materials that her clients can use, […]
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Put Him in the Stocks
Vice President Al Gore said this week that he will not divest himself of stock in Occidental Petroleum, despite the company’s controversial plans to drill for oil in the Colombian Amazon on ancestral land of the U’wa indigenous tribe. The U’wa fear the drilling will devastate land that they consider sacred, and last month hundreds […]
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Nativity Seen
The U.S. is home to more than 200,000 native species of plants, animals, and other wild things, at least twice as many as previously thought, according to a new Nature Conservancy study, the most comprehensive look at biodiversity ever undertaken in the nation. As many as a third of the species are imperiled to some […]
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Congrats, Big Three — You Didn't Come in Absolutely Last!
Vehicles produced by U.S. automakers rank as nearly the worst polluters on the road, behind only Isuzu models in a new study of 11 automakers by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The study looked at fuel economy, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions from the 1998 models each auto company sold in the U.S. For […]
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Tapiring Off
Illegal logging is threatening Honduras’s Platano River Biosphere Reserve and other tropical forests that are integral parts of a biological corridor that winds through Central America from Mexico to Panama. The U.N. has provided funding for protection of the biosphere reserve since 1971, but logging companies continue to chop down trees illegally and poor farmers […]
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Fine Then, We Quit Too
Enviros are rejoicing after General Motors announced yesterday that it is quitting the Global Climate Coalition, an industry lobbying group that has denied the reality of climate change and fought against efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. GM is the latest in a long line of deserters, including Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler, British Petroleum, Royal […]
