Sierra back issues from November 1999:
LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
Nov 01, 1999 ... HEALTHY TRANSPORT Thank you for publishing "Carsick Country" (July/August 1999) by Jane Holtz Kay, a true environmentalist who has the courage to tell it like it is. The new hybrid cars aren't enough! The single most important choice we make in regard to our ecological footprint ...
CORRECTIONS.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
Nov 01, 1999 ... Hawaii's economy is not "robust," as we stated in "All-Around Health" on page 20 of our July/August issue. The Aloha State has been in an economic slump since 1990. This year, however, economists expect Hawaii's gross product to grow at or near 2 percent, the largest one-year increase in ...
The Green Season.(what people really want)(from the holidays)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999; ... Trim the holiday fat--and rejoice! Although 'tis nearly the season to be jolly, most of us, it seems, expect to have trouble getting into the holiday spirit. According to a recent poll by the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization advocating responsible ...
Arms Race on the Highway.(sport utility vehicle safety)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999; ... Crash-testing the myth of SUV safety The most dangerous part of almost any outdoor activity is driving there in your car. Car crashes are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, killing some 43,000 people a year. Many of those deaths are entirely preventable ....
Land of the Fee.(user fees on public lands)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999; ... When Congress allowed federal agencies to start charging "user fees" on public lands, it didn't expect a backpacker rebellion. The Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, now in its fifth year, promised to bolster the recreation budgets of the Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of ...
Bang, Bang, You're Green.(bullets used by U.S. Army)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999 ... The U.S. Army has a problem: Its bullets are deadly. Each year our soldiers use 300 million to 400 million rounds of ammunition (most in training, not combat) and all that lead, along with 15 other toxic substances, can be swallowed by critters or leak into nearby civilian water supplies ....
SAVE ENERGY ... AND BUCKS, TOO.(profits from reducing)(greenhouse gases)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999; ... The industry-sponsored Global Climate Coalition claims that efforts to meet the requirements of the Kyoto climate change treaty will cripple the booming U.S. economy. But according to the World Wildlife Fund and the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Tellus Institute, reducing greenhouse gases ...
Lights Out!
Nov 01, 1999; ... In several metropolitan areas, professional and amateur astronomers have championed municipal ordinances to restrict outdoor lighting and preserve the pleasures of a starry night. But the Canadian province of Ontario has gone a step further by establishing the world's first dark-sky ...
UpDates.(old growth forest products;)(new standards for soot and)(smog emissions)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999 ... VICTORY! Home Depot, the world's largest lumber retailer, has announced that it will stop selling old-growth forest products by 2002. The company has been the target of demonstrations and public outrage around the globe for carrying wood products made from ancient trees, including British ...
NEW TRIPS FOR 2000.(Sierra Club Outing trips)
Nov 01, 1999 ... Start out the new year on the right foot--with a Sierra Club Outing. The desert Southwest offers warming weather and glorious wildflowers, the fresh snow of the Sierra Nevada awaits you, and the wildlife and natural splendor of Alaska beckon. Our International trips explore the ...
INTERNATION TRIPS.
Nov 01, 1999 ... Africa Tanzania: Wildlife, Culture, and Zanzibar Too! June 10-24. The largest concentration of wildlife in the world is found in Tanzania. We will visit the premier game reserves of this facinating country enjoying many opportunities to observe and photograph the birds and ...
THE Polluters' PRESIDENT.(Texas Governor George W. Bush)
Nov 01, 1999; ... The Texas governor talks green, but he walks with the industry giants In May, Texas Governor George W. Bush staked his claim to be the second "environmental president" in his family. The front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, Bush said that he didn't want his state ...
Earth in the Balcony.(pro-environmental films)
Nov 01, 1999; ... TO SEE THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH AMERICA'S EYES, GO TO THE MOVIES. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the windows to America's collective unconscious are its movie screens. (Television, of course, is the portal to unconsciousness.) This is no less true for the nation's ...
Wayburn Wins the Gold.(former Sierra Club president)(Edgar Wayburn's vision)
Nov 01, 1999; ... Before Edgar Wayburn's first visit to Alaska in 1967, few Sierra Club members knew much about the great wilderness to the north. All that changed when the Club's then-president presented the Board of Directors with an expansive vision: to save the wildlands of the last frontier. ...
Five Years of The Planet.(Sierra Club newspaper)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 1999 ... Tree-huggers. Hunters. Schoolkids. Grandmothers. If you want to know who Sierra Club activists really are, read The Planet, the Club newspaper that puts a face on the 585,000-member organization with profiles and victory tales. "We're painting a picture of a movement and helping ...
HOME FRONT.(protecting natural ecoregions)
Nov 01, 1999; ... In 65 chapters and hundreds of local groups spanning 21 ecoregions and two nations, Sierra Club members are hard at work protecting our natural heritage. American Southeast CEMENT NIX-ERS Rising from northern Florida's underground springs, the Ichetucknee ...
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVIE?(Brief Article)(Review)
Nov 01, 1999 ... The China Syndrome points out the dangers of scientific illiteracy. Well-meaning nuclear-plant employees make electricity using the heat of fission in a big, scary reactor that has been illegally certified and is probably "gonna blow." At last it does indeed overheat. (The core threatens ...