Say It ProudIn his essay about the growing “re-enchantment with nature” (“World of Wonder,” Winter), William Gibson is correct in arguing that this movement is key if we are to...

Campaign to Save Japan Dolphins Enters Critical Phase

Brazil’s Unemployed Catadores Keep Recycling Rates High while Earning Much-Needed Cash.

The Emissions Emergency Is a Crisis of Justice

AfricaAsia EuropeNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth AmericaAFRICAFair vs. Local“Food miles,” a term used to describe the distance food travels from farm to plate, may not be the best way to measure...

Jorge Lopez works shirtless among a mountain of wooden pallets along the cluttered banks of Tijuana’s swampy Arroyo Alamar. He stacks the best pallets to one side and busts others into boards, p...

From a very early age, Jane Goodall showed a keen interest in observing animals. One day, when she was four, she spent hours crouching in a henhouse trying to see how a hen laid an egg. By the time sh...

Project Jatropha

Now that the EPA has defined carbon dioxide as a pollutant under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, we should probably mutter “Beg pardon” whenever we respire. On average, an adult human...

Kim Keever

Nanotechnology Promises and Perils…

How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
by Raj Patel
250 pages, Picador Press, 2009

Money MattersThe headlines hardly seemed news. At the beginning of the year, Greenwire and Reuters reported that nearly half of US money managers ignore climate risks when making investment decisions....

A Natural Gas Rush in the Northeast Is Forcing Farmers to Choose Between Income and Land.

by James Workman
323 pages, Walker Publishing, 2009

Native Plant Propagation on a California Island

The Likely Removal of Four Dams on the Klamath River Will Mark the Largest Dam Decommissioning in History. An Unlikely Alliance of Farmers, Fishermen, Ranchers, and Indians Made It Happen.

by Andrew Darby
300 pages, De Capo Press, 2007

Rafting Through Heaven

Debate

Directed by Robert Stone
American Experience, 100 minutes

World’s 10 Best Destinations

As Senior Attorney at Waterkeeper Alliance, Nicolette Hahn Niman sought to improve conditions at livestock operations. Today she and her husband Bill, founder of Niman Ranch, raise grass-based cattle,...

A funny thing happened on the way to Copenhagen. On the eve of the climate summit, Annie Leonard – the creator of the Internet phenomenon “The Story of Stuff” – threw a stink b...

Earth Island Institute is proud to announce its two newest projects: Mongol Environmental Conservation is dedicated to bringing together stakeholders to protect the environment, natural resources, ...

A vegetarian since her teenage years, Lindsay Rajt manages grassroots campaigns at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Rajt has coordinated campaigns targeting KFC’s “torture&rdqu...