E Magazine articles from March 1998

E Magazine archives from March 1998

Rodger Schlickeisen: defending America's wilder ways. (interview with Defenders of Wildlife member)(Interview)
March 1, 1998... Dr. Rodger Schlickeisen, at the helm of the 50-year-old Defenders of Wildlife since 1991, has by now grown accustomed to controversy in his work defending some of America's biggest predators - including grizzly bears, wolves and the elusive lynx....

Chattanooga on a roll: from America's dirtiest city to one of its greenest.
March 1, 1998... "Chattanooga," proclaims a 1924 promotional brochure whose cover features artistically rendered belching smokestacks, "is a divine masterpiece in the making." Unfortunately, the roaring fires of this industrial riverfront city came to symbolize...

Merging home and office: telecommuting is a high-tech energy saver.
March 1, 1998... In what has to be considered a major change in American corporate life, more and more office workers are "commuting" in their bathrobes, moving from bedroom to home office to begin their work day. Telecommuting is a "no brainer" right? How could...

The quietest war: for many Americans, noise pollution is no joke.
March 1, 1998... April 29th marks the third annual International Noise Awareness Day, which supporters will acknowledge with a minute of silence from 2:15 to 2:16 p.m. Anti-noise activists will pass out earplugs and offer free hearing screenings. Their message is...

Is Australia overpopulated?
March 1, 1998... Europe and Australia are about the same size, but the former has 660 million people and the latter only 18 million. Demographers concluded long ago that Europe was in danger of bursting at the seams, but Australia? Since white settlement of the...

The unfriendly skies. (expansion of airports)
March 1, 1998... Last spring, a handful of grassroots community and environmental groups sent delegations to Minneapolis for a conference opposing the ongoing expansion of airports. The activists, who are talking about forming a national organization, argue that...

Damning the dam. (reduction of a hydroelectric dam into a river)
March 1, 1998... In a dramatic reversal from its business as usual, the federal government has ordered that a working hydroelectric dam be reduced to rubble in order to restore a river. On November 25, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) - which...

A river reborn: the American restoration movement brings streams-and communities - back to life.
March 1, 1998... For Jim Wilcox, an autumn afternoon on Greenhorn Creek turned into a fisherman's bonanza - and he didn't even have a pole. Five years ago, Wilcox, a logger turned hydrologist, found one trout in this mountain stream, a tributary of the Feather...

Down the drain: getting toxic waste out of public sewers.
March 1, 1998... Back in 1993, it didn't take much to see that something was seriously wrong with the Chattooga River - if only because the Chattooga's color, as it meandered through the tiny town of Trion, Georgia, often had a lot in common with a pair of new...

Troubled homecoming: through reintroduction programs, predators are returning to the wild, challenging our expectations and fears.
March 1, 1998... The pack of six gray wolves raise pointed noses to the wind, catching the scent of an intruder invading their frigid Wyoming territory. Up on a hill, behind a snow-capped boulder, a mountain lion crouches, whiskers raised, and growls in warning....

Where the land meets the sea. (part 2)
March 1, 1998... The Delicate Fabric of the World's Coastal Regions Is Being Torn Apart Rachel Carson, best known for exposing the dangers of DDT in her classic Silent Spring, was also a keen observer of our coasts. "The shore is an ancient world, for as long...

Blowing smoke: the unhealthy cigar's glamourous image is a lot of hot air.
March 1, 1998... Demi Moore wants to light up your life. "There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration," says the star, a Cigar Aficionado cover celebrity. "It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into...

Flushed with success: new waste-reducing design in modern toiletry.
March 1, 1998... Every day, Americans flush away about three billion gallons of drinkable water, not to mention millions of pounds of useful fertilizer. As Sire Van Der Ryn notes in his classic 1978 book The Toilet Papers, "Our excreta - not wastes, but misplaced...

Making money: local currencies and bartering networks bring economics home.
March 1, 1998... Managing without money may sound like a radical idea, but for most of history - and even in many parts of the world to day - economic life didn't revolve around currency. Homo economicus either bartered or made do with what he caught, foraged or...

Thundering wildlife: Zimbabwe emerges as the newest eco-destination.
March 1, 1998... Coasting along fiery-red African waters, with the bellowing of hippos drawing attention from the tranquil quietness of sunset, Zimbabwe's Zambezi River offers an ideal way to get in touch with an unspoiled ecosystem. On one bank, five elephants...

Working light: shortcuts to the greener office.
March 1, 1998... The most environmentally-unfriendly place you step into all day may be the one in which you spend most of your waking hours. What's that hostile environment? It's your office. Think about it. The workplace welter of electronics gobbles watts, the...