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Stand-up Comity

Oregon’s Siuslaw National Forest has emerged as a model for the way timber companies, environmentalists, and local communities can cooperate to manage forests. It is one of the few national forests in the state exceeding U.S. Forest Service logging goals. It’s also the site of substantial ecological restoration, with streams boasting seven times the levels […]

Fed Up

Efforts by U.S. states in the northeast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are falling short, in part due to unsympathetic federal policies. While they see plenty of room for more aggressive efforts, even the region’s most vocal environmental critics acknowledge that northeastern states have taken unprecedented steps to reduce emissions. The biggest initiative has been […]

A wildlife habitat enthusiast answers questions

What organization are you affiliated with? WindStar Wildlife Institute. What does it do? WindStar Wildlife Institute is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation organization that works to stem the loss of native plants, wildlife, and wildlife habitat by effectively teaching wildlife-habitat improvement practices through proven methods such as “neighbor helping neighbor” and “education through demonstration.” In […]

Al-Gore-Rhythm

Gore Blasts American Companies for Lagging on Green Tech American companies spend too much time fighting environmental regulations and too little time researching and developing the next generation of green technologies, said former vice president and 2000 popular-vote winner Al Gore in a speech to Stanford University business students yesterday. Gore cited a recent deal […]

The Emissionary Position

Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations If automakers do not agree to improve the fuel efficiency of cars sold in Canada by 25 percent by 2010, the country will consider adopting California’s new law curbing carbon-dioxide emissions from automobiles, said Canada’s environment minister in a speech yesterday. Canada, unlike the U.S., signed the Kyoto […]

Liquidated

Water Privatization Sweeps World Despite Problems Water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th, predicted Fortune Magazine in May 2000, and it is shaping up to be a prescient claim. Multinational corporations now run the water systems that provide for 7 percent of the world’s population, with analysts expecting that […]

The Longline of the Law

Government Bans Longline Swordfishing to Protect Turtles In an effort to protect endangered sea turtles, the U.S. government has banned California’s swordfish fleet from operating in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean. The ban — announced yesterday by the National Marine Fisheries Service — applies only to “longline” fishing, in which large baited hooks […]

Same #$%@, Different Use

Scientists Turn Excrement Into Electricity — Really Scientists in the U.S. have developed a method to convert raw human waste — or as the scientists call it, “number two” — into electricity, putting a brown spin on the green-power movement. Oops, did we say “movement”? Okay, okay, we’ll try to be serious: The process works […]

Dust Busted

Manhattanites Sue EPA Over Mishandling of Enviro Hazards from Sept. 11 The U.S. EPA mishandled the environmental hazards caused by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and put thousands of New Yorkers at risk, charges a class action lawsuit filed by 12 lower Manhattan workers and residents yesterday in U.S. District Court. The suit claims […]

Bark A’Lounging

Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Messing With Amazon Ecology Researchers have discovered that areas of the Amazon rainforest previously considered pristine are in fact undergoing drastic changes, likely due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The discovery was a bit of an accident — researchers tracked changes in plots of isolated rainforest to […]