The Amicus Journal articles from June 1999

The Amicus Journal archives from June 1999

THe great American land rescue.(Land Legacy Initiative proposed by President Clinton)
June 22, 1999... This year, Congress has a chance to make environmental history. Most environmentalists would not have predicted anything great from this Congress. Its biggest recent environmental action took place in May: in a last-minute, late-night...

Bottled hype?(safeness of bottled water)
June 22, 1999... Erik Olson has had a thing for clean water for as long as he can remember - at least as far back as Earth Day 1970. For Olson, a seventh-grader in the Chicago area, the images from that spring day sparked a lifelong crusade. "I remember...

The new suburbanites: how American plants and animals are threatened by the sprawl.(Cover Story)
June 22, 1999... In this special section, Amicus examines what poorly planned real estate development is doing to the country's living natural heritage. This introduction provides an overview of the problem. Other stories look at a carnivore expert who...

A walk on the wild side.(includes related article on wildlife volunteering)(nonprofit organization Keeping Track)
June 22, 1999... Community volunteers track wildlife to help save natural habitat On a sub-freezing morning in mid-January I find myself standing on the side of a mountain in northern Vermont, shod in snowshoes, listening to a wildlife expert explain how...

Endgame for the desert?(Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona)
June 22, 1999... In sprawling Tucson, plants that struggle to survive between the parking lots may date from before Christ. The Sonoran Desert surrounding sprawling Tucson, Arizona, is a landscape so beautiful it looks deliberately designed. To the west...

The species only a mother could love.(near extinction of the freshwater mussels species, orangeacre mucket)
June 22, 1999... Freshwater mussels are the most endangered order of animals in the country. Does anybody give a damn? In the catalogue of female reproductive wiles, the orangenacre mucket deserves special mention. The orangenacre mucket, for those who...

Justice on the rampage.(ruling of Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia)
June 22, 1999... The late Justice Harry Blackmun called it a "slash-and-burn expedition"' Antonin Scalia is undermining the right of citizens to sue polluters. One of the great elements of the U.S. system of environmental law, itself arguably the...

Seeds of chaos.(effects of globalization on the environment)
June 22, 1999... Like Johnny Appleseed on a huge scale, globalization is spreading the American way of making money all over the world. But at what cost to the environment? Editor's note: In this third and final installment of a series on new issues at...

The Overspent American: Why We Want We Don't Need.(Review)
June 22, 1999... by Juliet B. Schor HarperPerennial, $13 Overconsumption is the mother of all of our environmental problems. - KALLE LASN, EDITOR, ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE For many years now, the nation has been torn by a painful debate over its values...

Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess.(Review)
June 22, 1999... by Robert H. Frank Free Press, $25 Overconsumption is the mother of all of our environmental problems. - KALLE LASN, EDITOR, ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE For many years now, the nation has been torn by a painful debate over its values -...