E Magazine articles from January 1997

E Magazine archives from January 1997

Katie McGinty: running environmental interference for the Commander-in-chief. (chairperson on Council on Environmental Quality)(Interview)
January 1, 1997... Environmentalists, who are often either mildly encouraged or bitterly disappointed by the initiatives coming out of the Clinton White House, know that they at least have a sympathetic ear with Kathleen Alana McGinty (better known as Katie),...

What's the buzz? (decrease in wild honeybee populations)
January 1, 1997... Wild Honeybees, Nature's Pollinators, Are in Trouble, Victims of Manmade Pollution And Tiny, Destructive Mites Bee populations aren't what they used to be. Experts estimate that more than 90 percent of wild honeybee colonies in North America...

Drowning in sand. (environmental effects of desertification)
January 1, 1997... Desertification, a Worldwide Phenomenon That Consumes Arable Land, Threatens the World Food Supply Dust storms, sand dunes and waterless desolation. For most people, these images conjure up the trackless, timeless desert. Photojournalist...

Breaking the species barrier. (the Great Ape Project)
January 1, 1997... For the past two years, scientists, environmentalists and animal rights activists have been collaboratively working toward a common goal: recognizing the legal rights of the great apes, whose genetic makeup and social structure are unarguably...

Environmental justice on the Web. (sites on the World Wide Web)
January 1, 1997... Phone calls, flyers and word-of-mouth have been drawing attention to environmental justice issues for decades. But with more than 100,000 online documents devoted to environmental justice issues, activists are now turning to the World Wide Web...

Ghost grizzlies. (grizzly bears in Colorado)
January 1, 1997... Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado? The San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado hold some of the richest grizzly habitat in North America, and in prehistoric times the great bears were ubiquitous there. But by the mid-19th century,...

Discordant HAARP. (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program)
January 1, 1997... The Air Force Is Preparing To Militarize the Ionosphere - With Electrifying Results In a black spruce forest north of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, a bristling array of antennas rises into the air. It looks like a cable television...

Women's work. (women in the environmental movement)
January 1, 1997... It's as basic as keeping the air we breathe clean and the water we drink pure, and it's as politically knotty as halting construction of incinerators in the inner city and reducing population growth in developing nations. Environmental activism...

Visionary thinking: women shape the environmental movement's theoretical base.
January 1, 1997... Women's contributions to the environmental movement have and continue to take many forms. Women serve as frontline leaders at grassroots actions around the world. They hold management positions at the largest - and the smallest - environmental...

Green belts and green revolutions: international women organize against agribusiness and environmental degradation.
January 1, 1997... Vandana Shiva and Wangari Maathai have much in common. They've both won Sweden's Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize) and been named as two of Utne Reader's Top 100 Visionaries for 1995. And both were speakers at the Fourth World...

Green at the grassroots: women form the frontlines of environmental activism.
January 1, 1997... Kim Phillips is an accidental environmentalist. While most women now attaining national clout in the environmental arena spent years studying the issues and building their careers, the grassroots movement is led by former housewives like Phillips...

Who will feed China? (food deficit)(include related article)
January 1, 1997... THE WORLD'S MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY IS FACING A MASSIVE GRAIN DEFICIT At the close of the 20th century, we are adding 90 million people a year to the world's burden, forcing many scientific observers to conclude that we're on a collision course...

Body, heal thyself. (alternative medicine)
January 1, 1997... Alternative Medicine Is a More Natural Approach to Health Roberta Reynolds, a Connecticut graphic designer, admits she was skeptical about alternative medicine before her father, who had already undergone two brain surgeries for neuralgia,...

Banking with a heart. (socially responsible banking)
January 1, 1997... Socially Responsible Loans Are a Good Investment Most people don't think of their bank as a catalyst for social change. Yet if you accept the premise, unfortunate as it may be, that money makes the world go 'round, how your bank lends out your...

Out the window. (energy-saving equipment)
January 1, 1997... Modern Homes Are Heat Wasters, But Green Money-Savers Are Possible The American home hasn't changed all that much since colonial times, and like the early Pilgrims, we waste a lot of energy, especially in the winter. In the average household...

The prince of tides. (Bay of Fundy in Canada)
January 1, 1997... Marine Wildlife Abounds in Canada's Bay of Fundy Looking for the ultimate wave? Forget Hawaii; consider instead New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy, whose natural funnel shape helps create the highest tides in the world, up to an incredible 48 feet....

Walk a mile in these shoes. (environment-friendly shoes)
January 1, 1997... Footwear That Treads Lightly on the Earth The shoe industry is, by design, a polluting enterprise. In the U.S. alone last year it produced over 350 million pairs using toxic dyes and glues, chemically-tanned leather, synthetics, plastics and...