E Magazine articles from March 1996

E Magazine archives from March 1996

Jacques Yves Cousteau at 85.(Interview)
March 1, 1996... The Undersea World of a True Environmental Explorer The highlights of Jacques Cousteau's life are hardly a mystery; every schoolkid knows about his pioneering underwater photography, his famous TV program The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau...

Garbage in orbit: debris from 40 years of space exploration presents a thorny disposal problem.
March 1, 1996... A two-ton Chinese spy satellite the size of a small car is headed for a crash landing somewhere on Earth. Although most satellites quickly burn up when they reenter Earth's atmosphere, this one is prepared for the fiery ride, and is deemed...

Watch out for killer algae: years of dumping hog wastes into North Carolina rivers has created a monster.
March 1, 1996... Imagine a microscopic marine predator which can spend years at a time without food, but which, when conditions are favorable, suddenly emerges from the sediment, changes shape and kills millions of fish after stunning them with a poison so...

A wolf in sheep's clothing? (Keep America Beautiful)
March 1, 1996... Despite its Famous Crying Indian, Keep America Beautiful Is No Friend Of the Greens Mike Hogan recalls being shocked the day he discovered that Keep America Beautiful (KAB) isn't an environmental group. Like countless baby boomers, Hogan grew...

Monkeys in the hot zone. (primate-borne viruses)
March 1, 1996... Primate Experiments and Transplants Could Release Deadly Viruses Into the Human Population Inside the white-coated world of U.S. university, commercial and military laboratories, about 55,000 primates are used each year to study a range of...

Enough! (dissatisfaction with the consumer culture)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1996... "The world's richest man is a pauper at times compared to the man with a satisfied mind" - traditional folk song Americans are the world's consumption champs, and our frenzied work-'til-you-drop, buy-'til-you-pass-out culture is placing a...

Goodbye to all that. (environmentalists Dick and Jeanne Roy)
March 1, 1996... If you look at things through the traditional American prism, Dick Roy "had it all," including a six-figure income. He was a member of the management committee at the Portland, Oregon-based Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones and Grey, the biggest law...

Parks in peril. (national parks)
March 1, 1996... America's 368 National Parks Are Threatened by Their Own Popularity - and by Budget Cuts, Pollution and Buildup on Their Borders When Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited the Great Falls Park in Virginia last year, he found no one at the...

Bag it. (environmental impact of bags for groceries)
March 1, 1996... 'Paper or Plastic?' We're Asked at the Grocery Store, But What About Cloth? For most of us, trotting off to the grocery store is an unloved chore done on automatic pilot. No wonder, then, that how we get those groceries home is the last thing...

Sex offenders. (chemicals as 'endocrine disruptors')
March 1, 1996... More than 40 Common Chemicals Are 'Endocrine Disruptors' - Attacking the Body's Centers of Sexuality, Growth and Development Since the early 1960s, scientists have observed some shocking mutations in wildlife - hermaphroditic seagulls with both...

In defense of weeds.(Eco-Home)
March 1, 1996... Homeowners are Letting Their Lawns Go to Seed June 3, 1994 was an ideal day for a home garden tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma - the weather was beautiful and the plants were in full bloom. That day, over 800 people had visited Evelyn Connor's garden,...

Undiscovered Australia. (ecological beauty)
March 1, 1996... Going Down Under Is an Antidote to Crowded Cities and Vanishing Nature Even the most remote trails in Nepal are littered with bright orange Kodak film boxes and granola bar wrappers. So what's a solitude-loving ecotourist to do? The best bet...

Just the facts: making sense of corporate environmental reports.
March 1, 1996... Not long ago, the idea of a corporate "environmental report" was a glossy brochure featuring a duck-filled lake, a tree-filled forest, and a bunch of smiling kids playing on the beach. If the company was really brave, it might picture its factory...