When I heard that Colorado Representative Scott McInnis, who heads theHouse Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, was turning hisattention to “ecoterrorists” in the wake of 9/11, I br...

I remarked to a friend that on Sunday mornings my wife and I listen to NPR’s environmental program Living on Earth. “My, what a cheerful way to start a week” he quipped. Environmenta...

Yunnan Province in southern China has been called China’s newShangri-La. The region contains one of Asia’s last untouched forests,where three of Asia’s mightiest rivers - the Yangtze...

by David Korten reviewed by Scott London The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism by David Korten Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000 In this trenchant critique of global econom...

I find much to be happy about, living in these times. Our unparalleledinstant access to information about everything and every idea; the easeof travel to beautiful places; the closeness of friendships...

A report on climate change was released by the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency in early June, prompting criticism from the US energyindustry and a hasty disavowal of the document by George W. Bush. ...

Become a Journal International Correspondent Earth Island Journal is building a worldwide network of correspondentsto report local environmental news from their area and verify breakingnews reports ...

-North America- Urban Agriculture Workshop August 30 - September 1, 2002 Goleta, California This weekend workshop will provide training on how to acquire land,capitalize, set up, grow an...

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Boreal Footprint Project The most gripping fact about the business of extracting oil from thesands of northeastern Alberta is that no one seems to know how bad itis going to be for the boreal fores...

Math is HardI am a public interest low-level toxin researcher with an undergraduate degree in physiological biochemistry. Recently I saw, in two different publications, statements to the effect that n...

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Whalewatching takes off in Iceland

Dear Readers, There are exciting new developments afoot at Earth Island Journal. First, after more than 15 years at the helm of the Journal, Gar Smithhas assumed new duties as Earth Island Institu...

Energy

Oakland, CA, June 11 - The jury in Bari v. FBI has awarded plaintiffs $4.4 million for violation of the activists’constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favor of EarthFirst! act...

IMMP in Colombia

A Nautilus for Climate Solutions Climate Solutions authors Guy Dauncey and Patrick Mazza,and their publishing house New Society Publishers won the covetedNautilus Award at the New York Book Expo in ...

Goldman Environmental Prize winners

Livermore, CA - Tri-Valley Communities Against a RadioactiveEnvironment (CAREs) announced a significant victory May 17 in itsefforts to keep plutonium in uncertified DT-22 canisters off UShighways. ...

Keiko progresses to freedom in Iceland

A few years ago, a pregnant woman came to see me in clinic. She workedin a laboratory where she was exposed to a chemical solvent. She wantedto know whether the chemical might harm her fetus. A search...

Mining and indigenous people

A few years ago, Taco Bell took out ads in USA Today and other major newspapers. The fast-food company had bought theLiberty Bell, the ad explained, and would now call it the Taco LibertyBell. The bel...

Scientists speak out for dolphins

Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results isthe classic definition of insanity. It is therefore quite dishearteningto hear the clamor by some environmental organizations for...

Activism

The sleepy village of Goro lies on the southeastern coast of GrandeTerre, the main island of the French “overseas community” of NewCaledonia. Goro’s few hundred residents look out ac...

US Mask Slips in Bali