The Ecologist articles from May 1994

The Ecologist archives from May 1994

Basta! Mexican Indians say "enough!" (Editorial)
May 1, 1994... "They wrenched off our fruits . . . They ripped off our branches . . . They burned our trunk . . . But they could not kill our roots." Consejo Guerrense 500 anos de Resistencia Indigena February 1994 At midnight on 1st January 1994, NAFTA...

White Satanic mills? (windmills in the United Kingdom)
May 1, 1994... For several hundred years, many parts of England's green and pleasant land were dotted with windmills. Even as late as the 1960s when most corn mills had become picturesque relics, many farms still used small multi-bladed, steel windmills to...

Dark victory: the global impact of structural adjustment. (includes related article)
May 1, 1994... The riots that broke out in Los Angeles in May 1992 bore more than a passing similarity to the food riots that had erupted in countries such as the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Brazil in the 1980s. All were essentially poor peoples'...

If wishes were horses: desire and democracy in the history of transport. (includes related article)
May 1, 1994... "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride." English Nursery Rhyme For those in the nineteenth century who were particular, travelling by railway imposed unwelcome demands. Before its arrival, the wealthy and privileged had enjoyed...

Anecdote and orthodoxy: degenerative nervous diseases and chemical pollution. (includes related articles)
May 1, 1994... Long before the scientific community realized the importance of vitamin C, a sailor with a fetish for limes noticed that he was the only person on his ship to escape the notorious seafarer's disease, scurvy. He drew the obvious conclusion: that...

BST foisted on consumers. (recombinant bovine somatotrophin)
May 1, 1994... The decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to permit the marketing of rBST, a genetically-engineered growth hormone developed for the dairy industry, has created controversy both in the US and elsewhere. Recombinant bovine...

The big backyard: composting strategies in New York City.
May 1, 1994... "New York City is the delta of a Nile of soil from all the farm fields of the world flowing through the supermarkets and into the landfill,"(1) The words of Karl Hammer, an organic farmer who sells his produce in New York, are a reminder that...

Urban renewal in Denmark: fighting for control.
May 1, 1994... In cities all over the world, there are "problem areas" where poor-quality housing and poor provision of services coexist with high unemployment, high crime rates, poverty, drug-taking and prostitution. By pumping money into these areas, and...

Hydrodollars in the Himalaya.
May 1, 1994... When a World Bank team landed in Kathmandu in May 1993 to finalize the 402-megawatt (MW) Arun III hydroelectric project, it was in for a shock. The Bank had come under immense pressure to withdraw from the notorious Sardar Sarovar dam on the...

Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology.
May 1, 1994... Anthropologists frequently seem rather nervous to commit themselves to any cause for fear that it might draw them off the steady rails of scientific discourse and force them into the murky swamps of subjective opinion. Kay Milton's approach in...

Ecofeminism.
May 1, 1994... Ecofeminism is shaped around choice and contest -- subsistence versus development; ecofeminism versus biotechnology; free trade versus freedom for survival; freedom versus liberalization. In a series of essays based on their previous books,...

Beyond Chernobyl: Women Respond.
May 1, 1994... After eight years, our memories of the horrific accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine may be fading, but the effects have not disappeared. In the area of Chernobyl itself, action groups are fighting a continuing battle to...

Environmental Law and Citizen Action.
May 1, 1994... The British environmental movement has been very active over the past year. Hundreds of demonstrators have been defending sites such as Twyford Down and trying to stop the extension of the M11 motorway link in the East of London in defiance of...