E Magazine articles from September 1998

E Magazine archives from September 1998

Sandra Postel: the coming age of water scarcity.(Interview)
September 1, 1998... She didn't start out as a guru, but since the publication of her book Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity (Norton) in 1992, Sandra Postel has become one. Now director of the Global Water Policy Project in Amherst, Massachusetts, Postel has...

Unsafe sanctuaries. (protection standards at U.S.'s 12 marine reserves)
September 1, 1998... The wind muffles his speech as Ed Cassano, manager of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, looks out from his 56-foot research vessel Ballena. He gazes onto the broad Pacific waters that nurture the largest concentration of blue...

Buying green; co-op America's socially responsible approach to spending.
September 1, 1998... More Americans are discovering their economic muscles. Co-op America wants to show people how to flex them. "Our mission is to create a more just and sustainable society by using economic power," says Alisa Gravitz, executive director of...

Blame it on El Nino; are we ignoring the early warning signs of global warming?
September 1, 1998... Could bad weather be more than bad luck? Were the droughts, disease outbreaks, wildfires and floods brought on by the great El Nino weather event of 1997-98 more than just the chance result of our variable global climate? The severity of this...

Bottoming out; why are diaper services disappearing?
September 1, 1998... Call the numbers of the three diaper services listed in the Boston, Massachusetts Yellow Pages and you'll get the same message: "The number you have called is not in service at this time." Ten years ago, the disposable diaper was the soiled...

Water, water everywhere; innovation and cooperation are helping quench the world's growing thirst. (includes related article on bottled water purity, 20 most endangered rivers in America, water-rights permits, water markets)
September 1, 1998... "There it is. Take it," city water superintendent William Mulholland told thousands of Los Angeles who stood by in 1913 with tin cups in hand, waiting to taste the first water sluicing through the 223-mile aqueduct from the Owens Valley. In a...

No safe haven; people with multiple chemical sensitivity are becoming the new homeless.
September 1, 1998... Though it's only recently begun to make headlines, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is not new: People have been reporting its symptoms on an increasing arc for the last 50 years, as our society has become more and more artificial. Between...

Doin' a body good?; studies link r-BGH-produced milk and increased cancer risk.
September 1, 1998... Those white mustaches on the smiling faces of celebrities may be a clever way to promote the "milk does a body good" idea. But there's nothing amusing about increasing evidence of much higher rates of breast and prostate cancers in people who...

Fruit of the vine: a surging organic industry delivers natural wine - without the headaches. (organic wine)
September 1, 1998... Picture this: a moonlit night after a hard day, you pour yourself some wine, swirl it around the glass. Raising it slowly to your mouth, you notice the crisp redolence of fruit and accents of oak-spice. The wine's fresh acidity coats the...