A special report on the environmental pollutant called money in politics
Several Journal Writers
Feature Articles
A River of Money Runs Through It
Chris van Es, www.chrisvanes.com
America is under assault from a deadly, insidious, and persistent pollutant. This pernicious contaminant threatens our health, safety, and way of life. Its noxious ...
Annie Leonard
Money to Burn
Oil and Gas Interests Are Spending Big to Keep Their Allies in Office
Sharon Kelly
Cash for Trash (Not for Compost)
The Country’s Largest Garbage Company is Lobbying to Repeal State Laws that Boost Composting
Jason Mark
Shut Up Money
Big Ag is Pushing Laws to Silence its Critics
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Citizens United Against Citizens United
A Movement Is Building to Amend the Constitution
Rikki Ott
We’ve Been Here Before
American History Offers a Hopeful Lesson in Checking Corporate Power
Ted Nace
Weird Science
The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biology
Jeff Conant
The Rise and Fall of the East Sand Empire
On the Columbia River, Conservation Biologists Find that Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will
Eric Wagner
Hunt, Fish… and Save the Planet
Greens with Guns: How can the values of hunters and anglers fit within an environmentalist ethic?
James Card
To Our Readers
Pay to Play
In a move that immediately became irresistible fodder for late night comics and editorial cartoonists, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature this summer approved a law that bars state a...
Jason Mark
Reflections
Politics and Plutocrats: a Parade of Inequality
America is currently engaged in the most expensive presidential contest in world history. In the United States, money doesn’t just talk – it dictates. How can we hope to make progress on the path ...
Gar Smith
Earth Island Reports
Climate Wise Women
Speaking Truth to Power
Tracy Mann
Brower Youth Awards: Meet the 2012 Winners!
Meet the 2012 Winners!
Journal Staff
1000 Words
What is in a Name?
Douglas Gayeton’s Lexicon of Sustainability
Journal Staff
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Up in the Air over Flying
There’s no getting around it – flying is the single most carbon intensive activity an individual can undertake. The global aviation industry is responsible for nearly 5 percent of all emis...
Get Comfortable on the Horns of this Dilemma
+Jeff Greenwald is executive director of Ethical Traveler, an Earth Island-sponsored project that seeks to use the economic clout of tourism to protect human rights and the environment. His travel wri...
Flying Less Is about Environmental and Social Equity
-John Stewart, author of Why Noise Matters, has been a transport and environmental activist for the past 30 years. He chaired the coalition of organizations that defeated plans for a third runway at L...
Conversation
Raj Patel
Raj Patel is no fan of messiahs and iconic leaders. “One bright shining light is dangerous,” says the writer, activist, and academic who was once mistaken as the savior of humankind by an obscure ...
Maureen Nandini Mitra
In Review
Unseen Landscapes
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot By Robert Macfarlane Hamish Hamilton, 2012, 448 pages
Adam Federman
Captive Time Bombs
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by David Kirby, St. Martin’s Press, 2012, 469 pages
Mark J Palmer
Voices
Reclaiming the Wilderness
I can still recall the memory with total clarity: I was afraid that the wind would lift me off the ground and carry me over the edge of the world. I knew if I let go of my parents’ hands, I would lo...
