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Trade Remarks

Britain’s top 25 companies are joining together on Thursday to launch a greenhouse gas emissions-trading system in an attempt to persuade the government to drop plans for a carbon tax […]

Sarah Ruth van Gelder, YES! magazine

Sarah Ruth van Gelder is the executive editor of YES! a Journal of Positive Futures and a resident of Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, Wash. Sunday, 27 Jun 1999 Tonight […]

Will This Little Piggy Go to Market?

Canadian scientists have genetically engineered an eco-friendly pig whose manure may contain 20 to 50 percent less phosphorus than normal pigs, potentially reducing soil and water pollution. The scientists say […]

Pull Over, Corn. May I See Your License?

In a serious setback for genetically modified foods, EU environment ministers today agreed to place tough new labeling and monitoring rules on the foods. The decision means that the EU […]

Doe in the Headlights

Though billions of dollars have been spent on the cleanup of U.S. nuclear weapons sites, the Department of Energy is coming up short in the task because its bureaucracy is […]

Insects Is Best

The world might become a buggier place thanks to global warming, presenting farmers with new worries, according to a study published today in Science magazine. Paleobiologists at the Smithsonian’s National […]

Bank Robbery?

The World Bank overruled U.S. objections yesterday when it approved a loan to China that includes $40 million for resettling 58,000 poor Chinese farmers onto fertile lands historically inhabited by […]

Read My Lips: Yes, No, Maybe

EPA Administrator Carol Browner has decided not to vie for an open Senate seat in her native Florida. Maybe. See what you make of this statement by EPA spokesperson Kim […]

It's a Drought, It's a Flood … It's Superdisaster

The rising number of natural disasters brought on by climate change is seriously threatening developing countries, and more “superdisasters” are in the works as the world’s poor concentrate in ever […]

A Lung Time Coming

Nine Latin American cities, which together are home to some 68 million people, yesterday called for a regional alliance to fight smog. The cities’ senior environmental officials signed a declaration […]