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Tune In, Plug In, Drop Out

While consumerism runs rampant and companies produce a constant stream of new widgets to tempt potential buyers, a small but growing number of American high-tech workers are adopting “voluntary simplicity” […]

Suzanne Cheavens, Mountainfreak magazine

Suzanne Cheavens is the senior editor of Mountainfreak magazine, based in Telluride, Colo. Monday, 31 Jan 2000 TELLURIDE, Colo. Welcome to the happy chaos of my life as editor of […]

Duh.

The U.S. government is finally conceding that workers who helped make nuclear weapons at 14 plants have higher-than-normal rates of a wide range of cancers, most of them fatal. The […]

Tickle Me, Elko

Hundreds of disgruntled Nevadans paraded through Elko, Nev., with 10,000 shovels on Saturday to protest a federal environmental policy that is keeping the U.S. Forest Service from rebuilding a washed-out […]

Ready, Set, Kyoto

While most industrial nations and developing countries are pumping out more greenhouse gases than ever, Japan’s carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 3.8 percent in 1998. About 60 percent of the […]

Free Trade Experiences Labor Pains

Pres. Clinton on Saturday talked up the importance of environmental and labor issues in global trade, speaking in Davos, Switzerland, to the World Economic Forum, an elite gathering of corporate […]

On With the No-Show

The environment has mostly been a no show in the presidential race, reports Grist’s boy on the bus, writing this morning from New Hampshire, where the nation’s first primary will […]

Cap'n Crunchy

Captain Climate, outfitted in a red cape and leotard, and his sidekick Boy Atmosphere have been trailing the presidential candidates around New Hampshire, trying to get them to explain what […]

Frank Bean-Counters

The World Bank has admitted in a new internal report that its nine-year-old forest strategy has been a failure and that the bank has succeeded neither in protecting forests nor […]

Salmon in Hot Water

Canada’s largest salmon fishery, on the Fraser River, could become the first tangible casualty of climate change, according to a new report prepared for the Canadian government by a group […]