E Magazine articles from July 1999

E Magazine archives from July 1999

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS.
July 1, 1999... SHIFTING THE BURDEN It was wonderful to see your coverage of tax shift ideas ("Sharing the Wealth," Cover Story, March/April 1999) in the magazine. As a follow-up, I would like you to know about the green tax shift that has recently...

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 1999... The address given for Environmental Building News in the March/April 1999 issue ("The Strength of Steel," House & Home) is out of date; the correct address and phone number are: 122 Birge Street, Suite 30, Brattleboro, VT 05301/(802) 257-7300....

DR. NAFIS SADIK.(director of the United Nations Population Fund )(Interview)
July 1, 1999... The UN's Prescription for Family Planning As Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her remarks at the Hague International Forum conference on population and women's reproductive health last February, she turned to the woman who had introduced her,...

Subliminal Messages.(environmental aspects of television)
July 1, 1999... Primetime TV Programs Educate Viewers On the Environment A carton of recycled copier paper sits on the counter of the ER nurses' station. The cast of Friends pours milk out of a reusable glass bottle. Law and Order's Detective Briscoe asks...

Fair Game.(women hunters)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... As More Women Take Up Hunting, Is This Deadly Sport Becoming More `Ethical'? Is there such a thing as "ethical hunting"? A growing number of outdoor sportsmen (and, increasingly, women) say there is, and they decry the tendency to lump all...

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SHENANDOAH.(poultry producer waste in Shenandoah River)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... It's not surprising that the rocks in the riverbed of Stony Creek, a stocked trout stream popular with fishermen, look like fuzzy brown fur balls. Rocco Industries, Virginia's second-largest poultry producer, uses 1.2 million gallons of water...

Culture of Fire.(Guatemala)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... One Guatemalan's Fight Against Slash-and-Burn Farming In the spring of 1998, Don Carlos Mendez, a legendary fighter for Guatemalan conservation, was making emergency calls on his radio. The Mendezes had been enjoying a family dinner when...

BAD MEDICINE: THE DANGERS OF VINYL HOSPITAL SUPPLIES.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... When Hollie Shaner's 14-year-old son needed surgery last year, she requested that glass intravenous (IV) bottles and special tubing be used instead of the usual polyvinyl chloride (PVC) equipment. Shaner, a registered nurse, wanted to prevent...

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE PLANTATION.(cocoa growth)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Who needs a holiday to splurge on chocolate? Certainly not Americans, who indulged ill over three billion pounds of the sweet stuff in 1997, averaging 12 pounds per person. With chocolate products flying off the supermarket shelves, it may be...

DICAPRIO'S THE BEACH: TROUBLE IN PARADISE.(motion picture runs into problems filming in Thailand)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... When Leonardo DiCaprio agreed to star in The Beach as a follow-up to the blockbuster Titanic, he probably thought he'd get a nice rest on location in an unspoiled Thai paradise. The Beach, based on a novel by the young British writer Alex...

A WALK CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.(Satish Kumar )(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... When it's time for a change, Satish Kumar knows it's time to walk. In his youth he was a Jain monk in South India, but in time he became concerned with the ills of the world at large, and, following the lead of his teachers Mahatma Gandhi and...

Terminator III.(use of infertile seeds)
July 1, 1999... Are Sterile Seeds a Threat To Small Farmers? They escaped from a laboratory in the dusty confines of Lubbock, Texas. But now they plan to colonize the world. If a newly-patented seed technology is on the market by 2005, many of the new...

Brain Drain.(mad cow disease)
July 1, 1999... Can Britain's Mad Cow Disease Come Here? At first, Doug McEwen forgot things--like, in the summer of 1998, his phone number and address. The symptoms got worse, but doctors still couldn't find anything wrong. Finally, the otherwise healthy...

ON A PILLAR OF SALT.(suit filed in death of gray whales)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... A criminal complaint has been filed by a union of 50 non-governmental Mexican organizations, Greenpeace Mexico and the environmental organization Grupo de los Cien (Group of One Hundred) in response to the recent deaths of 50 gray whales off...

THE `WHY BOTHER EXPANSION'.
July 1, 1999... An emergency environmental injunction against ski developer Vail Associates' proposed mad through prime lynx habitat in Colorado's White River National Forest has been denied (see "Troubled Homecoming," cover story, March/April 1998). The road...

NORTH DAKOTA: HEMP HAVEN?(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Last April, Governor Ed Schafer signed House Bill 1428, making North Dakota the first state in the nation to legalize the production of industrial hemp, which can be used to make clothing, paper, food products and even beer. Yet despite the...

Now We Are six.(world population to reach 6 billion)
July 1, 1999... In October, World Population Will Reach Six Billion. Can the Earth Carry the Load? On or around October 12, 1999, a Very Important Baby will be born somewhere in the world. The arrival of a new child is not in itself big international...

Uprooted.
July 1, 1999... The Worldwide Plant Crisis Is Accelerating Janet Marinelli trekked more than 13 miles a day along the ocean beaches of Long Island in search of the wild amaranth, a plant everyone assumed had been extinct for 40 years until, out of the...

Brain Storm.(pollutants' effects on the brain)
July 1, 1999... Are We Threatening Our Intelligence With Chemical Pollution? The 101st Congress declared the 1990s the "Decade of the Brain" to focus attention on the most vulnerable of human organs. But after 10 years of intensive research focusing on...

More Beets for the Buck.(community-supported agriculture )(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Community-Supported Agriculture Is the Affordable Way to Go Organic For most consumers, organic produce is an appealing alternative that they just can't afford. High price tags don't exactly encourage the nutritionally curious to make the...

Protecting Paradise.(Caribbean)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The Turks and Caicos Islands Gear Up For Responsible Ecotourism Visitors landing at Providenciales, the most populated of the Caribbean's Turks and Caicos (kay-kos) Islands, are greeted with the sight of excavating cranes, while roaring...

Shop 'Til You Drop.(Internet shopping)
July 1, 1999... Has Online Retail Spawned a New Orgy of Consumer Spending? Shopnow.com captures the lure of e-commerce in its motto, "The shopping is 24 hours a day, seven days a week." Indeed, online revenues, which last year totaled $4.5 billion...

NATURE'S COLORFUL WAY.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Did you know that nature has its own alphabet? Photographer Kjell Sandved, who is not adverse to dunking himself in a pond full of lily pads or working while covered with moths in a tropical rainforest, roamed the world to find unique patterns...

OUT OF THE TOY BOX.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... New England's Toy Box contains a diverse selection environmentally-friendly children's gifts, most of them made in small-scale cottage industries, which support local New England economies. According to its president, Deborah Bentley,...

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM.(environmentally safe ice cream cartons)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Ben & Jerry's "World's Best Vanilla ice cream will soon come in an Eco-Pint--a new paper carton made with unbleached paperboard. Developed after years of research, the new cartons will be phased in for all of Ben & Jerry's flavors by 2000. ...

AIRBORNE PROTECTION.(preventing germs in the air)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Americans now spend as much as 90 percent of their time indoors, exposing themselves to air that according to the Environmental Protection Agency is five times as polluted as the outside. You may have heard that the air on airplanes is...

ONE FOR THE FISH.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The CD Fish Trees Water Blues on the Bullseye Blues and Jazz label is a benefit disc for the Earth justice Legal Defense Fund's Fish-Trees-Water campaign, a multi-year effort to save the Great Northwest salmon, now critically endangered through...

MAKING CONNECTIONS.
July 1, 1999... Learn how to use the economic power you have as a consumer to create a better world! Connections is the quarterly newsletter for members of the Co-op America Business Network and the Social Investment Forum. The 12-page newsletter is full of...

THE EARTH UNDER SIEGE.(News on Earth newsletter)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... News on Earth, a monthly newsletter launched last year, is an all-star addition to environmental publishing. With contributions from such well-known green journalists as Mark Dowie, Annie Berthold-Bond (who serves as associate editor) and Mark...

GREEN SIGNALS.(environmental radio)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Still looking for a radio station with unique, alternative and noncommercial programming? Instead of vainly searching your FM dial, try logging on to Zero 24-7, the world's first green and commercial-free global web radio station. Sponsored by...

FOOD FOR THE WORLD.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Worldwide, there is enough food produced to provide daily meals of at least 4.3 pounds to every person on the planet. But despite that, almost 800 million people don't get enough to eat. Why is hunger so pervasive and what can be done about it?...

MAKING ECO-CHOICES.(book on wildlife conservation)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Do you want to fight impending development in your neighborhood or learn how to preserve a local species? The National Wildlife Federation's 1999 Conservation Directory will help locate the organization that's right for you. Organized by...

DAVID AND GOLIATH.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Grassroots groups across the country are hard at work pelting pebbles at big business, but are they making a difference? According to Ronald T. Libby's Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements, grassroots campaigns are bringing the...

LAST CHANCE TO SEE THEM?(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Combining a highly readable narrative form with a gripping subject, Watching, From the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns is an absorbing book in the honorable tradition of Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See....

Toxic Carpets, Green Wood and Great Lakes.
July 1, 1999... How to Avoid Fuming Fibers, Deceptive Stickers and Alien Mussels What are the toxic dangers of the carpet-cleaning chemical ethylene glycol monobutyl ether? -- Roger Schatz, Chicago, IL Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, also known...