Sierra articles

Recent articles from Sierra

Big pigs at the trough: the worst agriculture policy money can buy.(Ways & Means)(Farm Bill of 2002)
November 1, 2003... Ask me to list the top ten environmental sins of the Bush administration and I'm stumped. How do you rank clearcutting ancient forests, handing out licenses to pollute, and total disregard for the future? But ask me to name the single most colossally bad policy and it's easy: the Farm Bill of...

An idea so beautiful it could stop traffic.(One Small Step)(using old rail lines)
November 1, 2003... "I grew up in the Atlanta area, where I sprawl and traffic problems are terrible. As an undergraduate at Georgia Tech, I spent my year abroad in Paris. I lived in that great city studying how it was built and then returned to Atlanta and all its problems. For my master's thesis in...

Melting pointers.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... I teach chemistry at the college level One of the pieces of information that I show my students is the temperature data obtained from the Vostok ice cores, which span 400,000 years. They indicate that Antarctica saw some pretty dramatic changes in temperature long before human influence was...

Mock not.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... The July/August issue included a cartoon page, "Creative Science," apparently intended to ridicule proposed technological approaches to addressing the problem of global warming. The first cartoon depicts a University of Houston proposal to collect solar energy on the moon and beam it back to...

The Cost of Living.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... a book by Arundhati Roy In the late 1990s Arundhati Roy's first book, a haunting novel titled The God of Small Things, rose to the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 49 weeks. In The Cost of Living, Roy uses her newfound fame to blow the whistle on two projects hailed as...