Climate Culture

Pesticide labels contradict local waste laws

As another summer eases into autumn, many of us are now enjoying the rewards of a season of gardening. We proudly face the August dilemma of figuring out what to do with all those tomatoes and zucchinis that are the result of our digging, planting, and weeding earlier in the season. More than a few […]

Zed, last of his species, in "A New Wrinkle"

And You Thought Condoms Were Useful

A Hairy Situation

Zed, last of his species, in "Cup-holders the Size of Rhode Island"

I Have a New Dream

It’s so hard to do right in a world that expects you, rewards you, encourages you to do wrong. As when the Sierra Club, fighting off a Disney mountain development, discovered that it owned shares in Disney. Ever wonder what happens to all that junk mail? Photo: Philip Shepherd, NREL/PIX. As when environmentalists jet to […]

A Serious Energy Crisis

Hitting the Nader on the Head

Wow! Did I ever infuriate my liberal friends when I said I would vote for Ralph Nader! [See Won’t You Be My Nader?.] They’ve been hammering me with earnest lectures about how every vote for Nader will help get Bush elected, and how an elected Bush will devastate the environment, enrich the rich, hand the […]

Zed, last of his species, in "The Right to Arm Bears"

Zed, last of his species, in "Summa Cum Loud"