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An urban advocate answers questions

With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I’m executive director of Urban Ecology, Inc. What does your organization do? The five-second elevator speech goes like this: “We offer pro-bono land-use […]

War in the Time of Cholera

Baghdad Residents Suffer from Polluted Water As if the chaos and violence weren’t enough to bear, millions of Baghdad residents also lack a reliable source of clean water. Some have […]

To the Manner Bjorn

Lomborg Meeting Downplays Importance of Climate Change Bjorn Lomborg is vexing enviros once again. The Danish contrarian — who generated heaps of controversy a few years ago with his book […]

Bonn Vivant

China Pledges to Get 10 Percent of Power from Renewables by 2010 China pleasantly surprised enviros and politicians alike on Friday with a vow that it will generate 10 percent […]

Reading This Blurb Is Killing You

Researchers Find Toxic Dust on Computers Dust on the computer in front of you right now contains toxic chemicals that can lead to long-term neurological and reproductive health problems, according […]

I Just Met a Girl Named Maria

Senate Backs Redefinition of Nuke Waste The Senate voted narrowly yesterday to allow the Department of Energy to reclassify some high-level nuclear waste as “low-level” and leave it in place […]

10 Things I Haiti About You

Deforestation in Haiti Increases Flood Danger More than 90 percent of the country of Haiti is deforested. If you think that’s depressing, consider that the lack of trees to hold […]

Punch-drunk Lovelock

Famed Ecologist Argues Nuclear Power Needed to Fight Global Warming A prominent ecologist is raising a ruckus in environmental circles by arguing that the world needs to immediately embrace nuclear […]

Mighty Morphin’ Coal-power Rangers

NAFTA Commission Critical of Coal-Fired Power Plants Overall pollution in North America declined by 10 percent from 1998 to 2001 (the last year for which figures are available), but coal-fired […]

Coal Hand Luke

EPA Proposal Altered to Favor Coal-Fired Power Plants On the heels of today’s report that 46 of the top 50 polluters in North America are coal-fired power plants comes this […]