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Re: Such Stuff as Dreams Aren’t Made On Dear Editor: I loved Donella Meadows’s confession and ode to stuff, junk, and accumulation. Like so many others, I could identify with […]

Paint By the Numbers

Air quality officials and enviros on Friday announced a deal that would set an exact course for cleaning up smog in Los Angeles for the next 10 years and end […]

What a Team!

Enviro and labor groups across the country are increasingly joining forces, most recently at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, to fight against globalization and the consolidation of economic […]

Down the Hatch

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today will ask Pres. Clinton to create at least four new national monuments, including two in Arizona and two in California. Some 1 million acres northwest […]

What, a Team?

Celebs such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Pierce Brosnan, Ted Danson, Bette Midler, and Patrick Stewart have all taken on environmental causes, and enviros are welcoming the help, though they acknowledge that […]

The Dregs

After years of research, Starbucks has abandoned a prototype coffee cup designed to be more enviro-friendly. The world’s largest coffee retailer had been working to eliminate the need to double […]

Oil's Not Well

A tanker carrying 8 million gallons of diesel oil broke in half during a storm yesterday and began leaking oil off the northwest coast of France. Officials at the Brest […]

Amazing Race

If a Republican had to be elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would be the first pick for enviro heavyweight Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In Arizona yesterday, Kennedy attacked the […]

A Friend of the Devil Is No Friend of Mine

Speaking yesterday before the National Association of Manufacturers (can you say “polluters”?), Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH), the new chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called for scrapping […]

Drink, Poop, and Be Merry, for Next Year You'll Be Dry

Drinking water and sewage facilities are threatened by the Y2K computer bug, and lax oversight by the feds and industry are to blame, according to a reported released by the […]