Recently added articles from OnEarth:

The long wait before something happens.(editor's letter)

Jan 01, 2008; Barasch, Douglas S. ... YOU'LL FIND IN THESE PAGES SOME BRILLIANT SOLUTIONS TO SEVERAL OF OUR planet's more vexing crises. And yet ... Discerning what those solutions should be is often merely a halting first step across the wide chasm between knowledge and action--a long, agonizing stretch of time when societies ...

Reaching new heights in the Rockies.(view from NRDC)

Jan 01, 2008; Beinecke, Frances ... THE NOVELIST WALLACE STEGNER WROTE THATTHE AMERICAN West is "a region where optimism consistently outruns resources." That was certainly true of the past century, when companies extracted the West's treasures with little thought to its wildlife, old-growth forests, and limited water ...

NRDC in the news.(view from NRDC)(Natural Resources Defense Council)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... <Pre> "FROM BMW TO HONDA, from Chrysler to Volkswagen, the industry is rushing to make vehicles that use less gasoline or don't rely on it at all .... 'Companies that want to thrive in a world where carbon matters and there's $80-a-barrel oil can't just swing for the fences' with one big ...

There are too many of us.(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Leiser, Randy ... SOME OF US MAY GET THE "HAPPY ending" you refer to in the panel discussion on solutions for the planet led by Elizabeth Kolbert ("In Search of a Happy Ending," Fall 2007), but our children's children will not. The level of consumption, waste, and growth in this country alone is ...

Family planning.(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Bouyer, Alberta ... I consistently enjoy your publication and appreciate the work you do. Elizabeth Kolbert's panel discussion in your Fall 2007 issue illustrated the inherent difficulties in identifying solutions to global warming. Some panelists were accused of making the situation seem so complex as to be ...

How much a barrel?(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Cohen, Peter ... Andrew Nikiforuk's article on the development of Alberta's tar sands ("Canada's Highway to Hell," Fall 2007) is spectacular. I had heard about oil sands but had no idea of the criminal waste of resources necessary for extraction. If you include the ...

Shock therapy.(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Pope, David ... To read "Canada's Highway to Hell" is a profound shock. How can the provincial and national governments--and the people of the province--let this go on? Sadly, after the shock wore off, my next thought was, why do I bother with ...

If looks could kill.(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Holloway, Evan ... I was saddened to open the Fall 2007 issue of OnEarth to find that you had been forced to begin accepting advertisements. One of my favorite things about the magazine was the lack of ads, but I understand the financial pressures that led to the decision. (I, for one, would have been ...

Stay home instead.(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008; Carsten, Diana ... Richard Manning's essay "Africa's Next Green Revolution" (Fall 2007) left me disturbed. Surely the number of potentially profitable ecotourist guest lodges in Africa is finite and could support only a small percentage ...

Criminal intent?(letters)(Letter to the editor)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In reading about NRDC and Sheila Holt-Orsted's battle to save her family and her Tennessee community from contaminated drinking water (Dispatches, Fall 2007), several questions came to mind. According to the article, NRDC is filing suit against the Dickson County landfill for violation of ...

Errata.(Correction notice)

Jan 01, 2008 ... In the article "A Nasty Gas Attack" (Fall 2007, page 11), two plants, clover and birds-foot trefoil, were misidentified as grasses; they are legumes. On page 24, in Robin Marantz Henig's "Our Silver-Coated Future," a reference is made to a method of cancer ...

Quail in December.(Poem)

Jan 01, 2008; Halperin, Mark ... <Pre> They're scampering under the birdfeeder they can't fly up to, pecking at, picking up seeds the sloppy house sparrows and chickadees-- intent on getting it all--scatter half of in their frenzied digging. Each quail sports a question-mark, an ebony curl that sticks up from its ...

Biologists dig deeper: Canada's new Biotron superlab contains miniature chunks of the natural world that will help us predict the impact of climate change on living organisms.(Frontlines)(Biotron Institute for Experimental Climate Change Research)

Jan 01, 2008; Borthwick, Lindsay ... A GROUP OF PLANT SCIENTISTS GATHERED IN VIENNA IN 2005 AT THE International Botanical Congress. The meeting was pretty much what you would expect until its conclusion, when the congress declared: "As a matter of urgency, facilities for controlled, ecosystem-scale experiments are required ...

Peace in the garden.(Frontlines)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008; Boskovich, Angela ... LAST FALL IN THE GERMAN city of Kassel, a group of about 15 women harvested a bumper crop of pumpkins, squash, and wine grapes from a small community garden. Nothing unusual there, perhaps--except that the women were from Morocco, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia. ...

Far from nirvana.(Frontlines)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008; Spangler, Adam ... NEW YORK CITY'S AMITABHA Buddhists are full of good intentions. Last summer members of the group bought hundreds of eels, frogs, and turtles from the city's Chinatown markets and released them into New Jersey's Passaic River to save them from the dinner table. The problem: ...

They didn't mean that.(Frontlines)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... IN OUR FALL 2007 ISSUE, Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control warned that global warming was "perhaps the largest looming public health challenge that we face." On October 23, Frumkin's boss, CDC director Julie Gerberding, testified about ...

Selling points: green this, green that. Have our biggest corporations seen the light? Green marketing guru Joel Makower thinks their conversion may actually be for real.(Q & A)(Interview)

Jan 01, 2008; Davis, Lisa Selin ... NEVER MIND THE TWO GREEN companies he cofounded, the nonprofit boards on which he sits, the Fortune 500 companies for which he consults, the guest appearances with Oprah and Larry King. Joel Makower is first and foremost a storyteller, and he has spent the last 20 years gathering tales of ...

Dying for a manicure?(Frontlines)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008; Glausiusz, Josie ... DO YOU HAVE AN URGE TO PAINT YOUR TOENAILS PURPLE? First consider this: according to the Environmental Protection Agency, chemicals commonly used in nail-care products--toluene in nail polish, formalin and dibutyl phthalate in nail hardener, and acetone in fingernail glue remover--can ...

Cowboys and Indians: in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Marv Kammerer has persuaded ranchers and Indian tribes to bury old enmities and join forces to save the land that both groups love.(Frontlines)

Jan 01, 2008; Ray, C. Michael ... MARV KAMMERER LOOKS like the iconic cowboy: worn-out hat, neckerchief, the swagger that comes from years of hard work in the saddle. Just another South Dakota cattle rancher, you might think--until you notice the button pinned to his chest: "Impeach Bush and Cheney." Kammerer's family ...

Knitting in a winter wonderland.(Frontlines)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2008 ... Multimedia artist Abigail Doan, who divides her time between New York City and Siena, Italy, describes herself variously as a "geomorphic agent," an "environmental tinker," and an "art-farmer." She explains, "I create tactile maps, floating topographies, and in situ souvenirs that ...