The Amicus Journal articles from March 1997

The Amicus Journal archives from March 1997

Past time for clean air.(Column)
March 22, 1997... The single worst thing about the past two years, the years of the 104th Congress, is that they were a waste of time. Environmentalists had to spend two years trying to prevent Congress from doing major damage, and we do not have that kind of...

Sweetening ISTEA: the road to better transportation. (Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act)
March 22, 1997... Imagine that a single federal law could reduce air pollution, traffic congestion, suburban sprawl, and energy use. Imagine that it did all this by putting federal dollars into individual communities. Imagine that it set goals for energy...

Genesis of a movement: Paul Gorman's quest for a whole-earth religion. (National Religious Partnership for the Environment)
March 22, 1997... On an August afternoon in 1986, Paul Gorman was sitting by a creek in rural New York State, reading an essay by Wendell Berry called "Two Economies." In it, Berry proposes an economic base that, unlike the financial economy, would encompass...

Moraine lake. (poem)
March 22, 1997... I read my face on smooth stones. Glacial silt lacquers water milky green. Mountains rise then plunge into glass. Clouds float, subaqueous. I read mountains in glass: Glacial silt rises, subaqueous. Mountains...

Empowering California: in the electricity revolution, the Golden State is first on the barricades.
March 22, 1997... It was the pizza boxes on the floor of Pacific Gas & Electric's Sacramento lobbying office, morning after morning, that told the story. The California legislature was in the throes of fashioning a solution to one of the most significant,...

Building forests, growing homes. (certified wood)(Cover Story)
March 22, 1997... Certified wood makes for healthier forests. Can it transform the timber industry? Robert Hrubes was pumping gas into his Ford pickup one morning last March when a flatbed truck filled with hardwood flooring pulled tip beside him. Mixed...

On wilderness and Wallace Stegner. (novelist)
March 22, 1997... Wildlands, not managed ecosystems, give life--and art--to the West I keep waiting each day to make friends with the Forest Service--not with the individuals, but with the agency itself. The agency harbors, as a rotting log harbors...

Prophecy, plague, and plunder. (Aztecs and Spaniards in Mexico)
March 22, 1997... Five hundred years ago, the Aztecs lived in fear of ecological doom. Then the Spaniards arrived. When we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading...

Environment of secrecy: a lawsuit alleges environmental crimes at the country's most secret military base.
March 22, 1997... August, 1994: Standing atop a desert ridge in central Nevada, Glenn Campbell peers through binoculars at a remote cluster of buildings in the valley below. "It's the most famous secret military facility in the world," he says. The scattering...

Pollution and PR. (public relations)(includes related article on environmental regulation reduction)
March 22, 1997... Does "deregulation" protest the environment and save jobs? A hard look at the New Jersey experience For Governor Christine Whitman, December 15, 1994, was a blue-ribbon day in her administration's effort to cut red tape for industry. That...

The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics.
March 22, 1997... by Tom Hayden Foreword by Joan Halifax Introducing by Thomas Berry Afterword by Rabbi Daniel Swartz Sierra Club Books ISBN 0-87156-888-8 280 pp., $22 The words on the cover--"Reclaiming the Ecological Wisdom of Christianity, Judaism,...

The river's answer. (poem)
March 22, 1997... In me they dump their cans, their toilet paper, Their broken fishing-lines. I teem with their Debris. I am the one who swallows whole And gurgitates their rubbish, part and parcel. What do they know of my intelligence,...

Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness.
March 22, 1997... Compiled by Stephen Trimble and Terry Tempest Williams Introduction by T.H. Watkins Milkweed Editions ISBN 1-57131-212-9 112 pp., $7 In the late summer of 1995, the writers and naturalists Stephen Trimble and Terry Tempest Williams wrote...

From 'DOGEN.' (poem)
March 22, 1997... Under the sunrise the mountains are walking on water. This is the skin. The mountains are dancing. They are walking on their toes on all the water in the world. This is the blood. And all the water in...

Ajo lily. (poem)
March 22, 1997... Two feet deep under quartz & silica under earth no path marks off the bulbs swell, sweetness too deep to lure larvae, ground too hard even wet years to tempt claws. Impossibly delicate...

Forever forests: NRDC's initiative to protect forest ecosystems. (Natural Resources Defense Council)
March 22, 1997... Within the last thirty years, one-fifth of the earth's tropical forests have been destroyed. Temperate rainforests, comprising diverse ecosystems in moderate climates, balancing between coastlines and mountains, have also been gravely...

Green grows your garden. (organic gardening)
March 22, 1997... In 1995, pesticide use in this country reached an all-time high of 1.2 billion pounds. This number does not even include the "inert" ingredients in pesticide formulas, many of which are also toxic. You can help reverse those figures by...