Sierra back issues from September 2001:
Not-So-Free Trade.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... From the pine forests of British Columbia to the dusty streets of Bolivia, from the halls of power in Washington to cardboard shantytowns in Mexico, people are struggling with the real-world ramifications of a pleasant-sounding abstraction called free trade. Ten years ago, you scarcely ...
LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
Sep 01, 2001 ... HOOKED ON CRISIS Ross Gelbspan is correct in his assessment of the seriousness of global warming ("A Modest Proposal to Stop Global Warming," May/June). A great deal of warming is already in the pipeline. If we wait 30 to 40 years to address the problem, we may begin to ...
CORRECTIONS.(Correction Notice)
Sep 01, 2001 ... We made several errors in the May/June issue. "Knowledge Is Power" should have noted that some new top-loading washing machines are as energy efficient as the new front-loading models. The plan described in "A Modest Proposal to Stop Global Warming" has not been endorsed by "national ...
Big River Between Us.(social and environmental impact of North American Free Trade Agreement)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... NAFTA divides the United States and Mexico as never before By the time it bisects Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has pretty much petered out, the victim of a prolonged drought and enormous diversions of water on both sides of the border. However ...
Free-Market Fallout.(construction and operational costs of nuclear power plants)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Deregulation may finish off an industry built on taxpayer subsidies Given all the other '70s icons that have come back into fashion in recent years--bell-bottoms, platform shoes, muscle cars, ABBA--perhaps it's not surprising that the wasp-waisted nuclear reactor cooling tower ...
Who Owns Water?(privatization of water system in Cochabamba, Bolivia)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... How a corporation got the rights to life's most basic necessity In the poorest neighborhoods of Cochabamba, Bolivia, there is no indoor plumbing. Residents draw from communally owned wells, while their rural counterparts save rainwater in tanks for the dry months. Two years ...
Home Sweet Mall.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001 ... There's a plan afoot to turn those meccas of consumerism, American shopping malls, into refuges of livability. A study by the Congress for the New Urbanism concludes that failed regional shopping malls can be transformed into vibrant new neighborhoods. One of the study participants, ...
THE SCIENCE OF STALLING.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... All George Bush wants, he tells us, is"sound science."The phrase sounds measured, and, well, presidential, but the commander in chief's piety about scientific certitude is exercised only sporadically--and most zealously when industry activity might be curtailed. "[T]he president and his ...
Atomkraft? Nein, Danke.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... While the Bush brigade is marching ahead with plans to build nukes all across the United States, Germany is pushing just as hard in the opposite direction. In June the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder sealed a deal with the nation's energy providers to shut down all 19 plants that ...
For the Birds.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The urban jungle is murder on migrating birds, but Chicago has figured out a way to lower the death toll. As many as 7 million fowl cruise along the Lake Michigan shoreline in spring and fall. Unfortunately, for reasons not quite clear to scientists, birds are attracted to skyscraper ...
MANATEES GET A BRAKE.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001 ... MANATEES GET A BRAKE. Just four months after winning new federal protections for the West Indian manatee, Florida environmentalists have notched another victory for the endangered sea cow. In May the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission set new go-slow zones in some of the ...
BOTTLED UP.
Sep 01, 2001 ... BOTTLED UP. When Perrier announced plans to build a water-bottling plant in Adams County, Wisconsin, its neighbors-to-be weren't pleased. Concerned about the environmental problems the industry has created in other communities--including overpumping of springs, saltwater intrusion in ...
COW FACTORY FOILED.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001 ... COW FACTORY FOILED. While central California's San Joaquin Valley is one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, it also has some of the worst air quality in the nation. Last year, the Sierra Club and the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment filed suit against Borba Farms ...
Tinkering With the Tortilla.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Genetic engineering threatens Mexico's corn culture Dona Teresa Garcia, a Purepecha Indian great-grandmother who still farms her own fields in the mountains of western Michoacan, Mexico, holds up newly harvested ears of purple corn to show an old friend. Among the Purepechas, ...
Free-Trade Triage.(social work of physician Nancy Rodriguez in squatter settlement)
Sep 01, 2001; ... On the border, a Mexican doctor treats NAFTA's victims As leaders of the Western Hemisphere met in Quebec last spring to discuss expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement to include almost every scrap of land between the Arctic and Tierra del Fuego, Dr. Nancy Rodriguez ...
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF thermometers.(mercury content of thermometers and environmental and health protection)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... A THERMOMETER MAY BE AN ESSENTIAL PART of any healthcare kit, but this simple instrument could actually make you sick. Break one and the elemental mercury within can evaporate, becoming an indoor air pollutant. Toss one away and the discarded mercury might end up in a waste incinerator's ...
Recovered Wilderness.(West Virginia's Dolly Sods Wilderness Area)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Solitude and human history intertwine in the Dolly Sods Four thousand feet up on a plateau in northeastern West Virginia, the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area experiences some of the most volatile weather in the mid-Atlantic. The week before I arrived, a storm blew across the mountain ...
Apples, Pears, and Pesticides.(protecting children from pesticide residue)
Sep 01, 2001; ... A parent's guide to kid-friendly foods I wish I had known three weeks ago what I know today. I was sitting in my sister-in-law's kitchen, watching her cut up fruit for my one-year-old niece. Grapes, peach and melon slices--my niece shoved them all appreciatively into her mouth ....
WINTER SPORTS & APPAREL BUYER'S GUIDE.(Buyers Guide)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Hi-tech gear democratizes the cold Once upon a time, the only people who dared to recreate in the winter were the grizzled hardcore -- the kind who almost seemed to live For hardship. Frostbite? Didn't scare them. Reeking socks, shirts, and underwear from days of showerless ...
Six Million Sweet Acres.(president Bill Clinton dedicates new national parks)
Sep 01, 2001; ... From the quiet canyons of Vermilion to the lavish wildflowers of Carrizo, Americans have nearly two dozen new national monuments to explore. When Bill Clinton set out to designate new national monuments starting in 1996, mining, oil, and timber companies and their allies in ...
Pick Your Poison.(evaluating oil corporations)
Sep 01, 2001; ... AN ENVIRONMENTALIST'S GUIDE TO GASOLINE IN A PERFECT WORLD, WE'D ALL COMMUTE ON ELECTRIC BUSES AND DO OUR ERRANDS by bicycle or on foot. Meanwhile, however, many of us have no choice but to drive, so we face the same dilemma: Where should an environmentalist gas up? ...
Buzz Cut.(logging in central British Columbia)
Sep 01, 2001; ... While British Columbia's coastal forests gain protection, virgin old-growth in its vast interior is mowed down for the U.S. market. The powerful westerly that blew down from the, icy summits of British Columbia's Coast Mountains in the middle of the night threatened to send our ...
Tricks of free trade.(impact of some of the commercial treaties on the environment)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Such a deal! We give up our jobs and environmental safeguards for the greater glory of transnational corporations. Future historians will certainly marvel at how trade, originally a means to obtain what could not be produced locally, became an end in itself. In our ...
SIERRA CLUB OUTINGS 2002 International and Domestic Winter Trips.
Sep 01, 2001 ... Adventure abroad with the Sierra Club and explore the most glorious natural areas in the world with an appreciation for the global environment. Or consider getting away from it all to the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada or the desert tranquility of Arizona on one of our domestic winter ...
Domestic Winter Trips.(Sierra club outings)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Base Camp/Lodge Snorkel and Hike the Virgin Islands National Park, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. January 20-26. Leave winter for warm, sandy beaches, coral reefs, and turquoise waters filled with colorful fish. We will snorkel in secluded bays, hike in the National Park to ...
Hungry for Justice.(Elizabeth May hunger strike calls attention to hazardous waste site problems in Sydney, Nova Scotia)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... After sitting on the steps of Ottawa's Parliament Hill every day for two weeks, ingesting only water and Gatorade, Elizabeth May had lost 15 pounds and was too weak to get around without a wheelchair. Still she talked ceaselessly to government officials about the children whose pictures ...
Hot on the Trail.(Montana program trains Sierra Club members to document off-road vehicle damage)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001; ... With help from a former military man, Sierra Club members are taking to the woods to fight off-road outlaws As a U.S. Marine, Tom Arnold learned how to gather information behind enemy lines. Now a civilian in Montana, he's teaching nature-lovers how to scout areas torn up by ...
Invasion of the Killer Bees.(TV documentary 'Lethal Swarms: Killer Bees')(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001 ... With their fearsome moniker and potentially fatal attacks, the danger killer bees pose to their human victims is well known. What's less discussed is their impact on agriculture and other bees. A new one-hour television documentary from Sierra Club Productions, Lethal Swarms: Killer Bees, ...
SIERRA CLUB FINANCIAL REPORT.(Statistical Data Included)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Pursuant to provisions of sections 6321 and 6322 of the California Corporations Code, the following information is furnished as an annual report: The Club's financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2000, and December 31, 1999, together with the report of ...
LAST WORDS.(George W. Bush at the Council of the Americas meeting)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2001 ... "Americans want to live on a cleaner planet. We want labor standards upheld and children protected from exploitation. Americans want human rights and individual freedom ...