Dollars & Sense articles from March 1996

Dollars & Sense archives from March 1996

Wise use and workers.
March 1, 1996... Only three years ago, at the time of Clinton's inauguration, environmentalists across the country were in the mood to celebrate. Al Gore, author of Earth in the Balance, had been elected vice president. The new Secretary of the Interior was to be...

Up against the "death plan": Haitians resist US-imposed economic restructuring.
March 1, 1996... We are squatting in a cow pasture not far from Petite-Riviere de l'Artibonite, a farming community in the north of Haiti, with half a dozen Haitian peasants. It took us an hour to get here from the highway, on a zigzag of dirt roads with homemade...

Anti-environmental blitzkrieg: the GOP's war on the earth.(special section)
March 1, 1996... Since gaining control of Congress last year, the Republican majority has tried to force an about-face in the federal government's environmental agenda. With the support of 20 conservative Democrats who call themselves "The Coalition," the GOP...

Is the U.S. making progress? Unlike the GDP, a new measure says "no".(Gross Domestic Product)
March 1, 1996... Suppose a factory in your community has been producing valuable chemicals for several decades. It employs hundreds of workers, purchases materials and services from nearby towns, and yields high profits. Then inspectors for the Environmental...

Environmental justice: the birth of a movement.
March 1, 1996... Hazel Johnson lives in Atgeld Gardens, a predominantly black housing project on Chicago's Far South Side. She refers to the neighborhood of 10,000 residents as a "Toxic Doughnut" because the homes are encircled by landfills, factories and other...

Trading away the earth: pollution credits and the perils of "free market environmentalism.
March 1, 1996... The Republican takeover of Congress has unleashed an unprecedented assault on all forms of environmental regulation. From the Endangered Species Act to the Clean Water Act and the Superfund for toxic waste cleanup, laws that may need to be...

Realities of the rainforest harvest.
March 1, 1996... Over the past few years, Jon Entine has rewritten the same article about socially responsible and green business nearly a dozen times. He has traveled coast to coast speaking about the issues. As inventor of the concept of rainforest marketing...

Economic Fundamentalism: The New Zealand Experiment - A World Model for Structural Adjustment.
March 1, 1996... Imagine that you once lived in a workers' paradise. Health care was provided by the government. Unemployment was so low the joke was that the prime minister knew both the people on unemployment. No one was very poor and no one was very rich. A...

Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy.
March 1, 1996... At a time when the government is abdicating responsibility for the health of both people and the environment, Lois Gibbs and the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste have released a book which ambitiously attempts to transform public...

Air pollution, past and present.
March 1, 1996... Just how clean is the air we breathe? While many in the business community would have us believe that industry is now safe for the natural environment, at least 86 million Americans still live in areas where at least one air safety standard was...