E Magazine articles from March 1997

E Magazine archives from March 1997

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz: waist deep in garbage. (interview with scientist)(Interview)
March 1, 1997... Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has spent the last 20 years up to his neck in garbage. The former INFORM researcher, advisor to the World Bank, the U.N. and several Environmental Protection...

Against the grain: recycled wood is showing up in the best houses.
March 1, 1997... Most of the trees harvested in the U.S. don't get made into paper; they're used by the home building industry. In 1995, Americans built 1.3 million new houses, with the average single-family home using more than 15,000 board feet of lumber,...

Recycling the Army way: the Pentagon uses radioactive waste as armor and bullets.
March 1, 1997... As many as 700,000 American soldiers served in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, but it wasn't until last year that the Pentagon finally admitted that some of those servicemen and women may have been exposed to chemical weapons. Deborah Edwards...

These frogs don't turn into princes. (deformed frogs in Great Lakes region)
March 1, 1997... A disturbing wildlife phenomenon has turned up throughout the Great Lakes region, from Minnesota to Quebec: deformed frogs. Since August of 1995, researchers have found malformed frogs at more than 174 sites in 54 of Minnesota's 87 counties,...

The unquiet oceans: undersea noise experiments threaten the sensitive hearing - and communications - of marine mammals.
March 1, 1997... Anyone who has ducked beneath the surface of the ocean is familiar with the sensation. The screech of gulls, the laughter of children in the surf, even the distant whine of pleasure craft are all shut out for the moment. But, in fact, the...

Mapping the future: with GIS environmental system, the proof is in the plotting.
March 1, 1997... At the front lines of environmentalism, often the first and biggest challenge is proving that there is a problem. The systematic environmental poisoning Rachel Carson described in Silent Spring made headlines nearly 50 years ago because it was...

Talking trash. (recycling)(includes related article on history of recycling)(Waste Not, part 1)
March 1, 1997... Recycling Is Under Attack (By the Usual Suspects), But Its Stunning Successes Outweigh Its Modest Setbacks You pull out that jar of old spaghetti sauce from the back of the refrigerator. You find green fuzzy stuff all around the inside rim,...

Choosing to recycle - because it pays.
March 1, 1997... Recycled material isn't just in Greenpeace backpacks anymore - it's in many of the everyday products we buy at the mall and supermarket. Plastics, metals and glass now routinely take a second - or even third - trip through our consumer society....

The ties that blind: big oil goes hunting for electric cars in California. (includes related article on General Motor Corp.'s influence on public opinion and state legislation)
March 1, 1997... It was 8 a.m., September 16, 1996... and the red light was on in the studio of KSFO-AM in San Francisco. "Hot Talk" host Lee Rogers was doing his best to get his drivetime listeners (who breathe the worst air in the United States) charged up by...

Male breast cancer?
March 1, 1997... Yes, and Environmental Exposure Is Implicated In 1988, John Connole, of Bristol, Connecticut was diagnosed with breast cancer. Less than a year later, after recovering from the shock of her husband contracting a disease usually associated with...

Dialing for dolphins: activist phone companies give to the cause and reduce rates, too.
March 1, 1997... The FAX machine, the World Wide Web and email - all tied to telephone lines - have made possible a revolution in American work habits. The convenience and cost savings of working from home means even the environmentally unaware are increasingly...

Manatee mania: is Florida loving its endangered marine mammals to death?
March 1, 1997... "Once you've met a manatee, you're hooked," reads the Citrus County, Florida tourist brochure. "They're blubbery, yet lovable. They're big, yet friendly." This Disney theme park view of a unique American treasure (its closest relative is the...