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Southern Discomfort
Some days the smog in the Great Smoky Mountains, the country’s most-visited national park, is worse than the pollution in Atlanta. As the South’s population has soared, the region has […]
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First, Do No Warm
Climate change could bring with it a wide variety of health problems, according to a study of possible effects in Washington state, released today by Physicians for Social Responsibility. For […]
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Danny Kennedy, Project Underground
Danny Kennedy is the director of Project Underground, a Berkeley-based human rights and environmental organization which he helped to found in 1996. He is also a husband and a happy […]
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The Father, the Sun, and the Holy Spirit
A number of churches and city governments in California and other spots around the U.S. are leading the push for clean energy by powering their houses of worship and city […]
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The Perfect Ploy
Environmentalists are trying to parlay the box-office success of the “The Perfect Storm,” a movie that follows the ill-fated voyage of a commercial fishing boat, into increased awareness of the […]
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Simply Grand
Thousands of Californians are embracing a new state program that gives residents $1,000 to junk cars and trucks that fail to meet emission standards. The program, launched July 7, aims […]
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Gobi, Gobi, Gone
High prices for cashmere made from the wool of goats is leading in part to overgrazing of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. In the last decade, the number of livestock […]
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Rara Avis
Travelers to some U.S. cities can now rent eco-friendly cars. EV Rental Cars opened its first site at the Los Angeles airport in December 1998 and has since expanded to […]
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Mall Rats
Days after the Clinton-Gore administration gave its endorsement last year to a controversial shopping complex to be built in a sensitive wetlands area in New Jersey, the development company’s executives […]
