Sue Reid

Reef Protection International Elevencountries were hit by the December 26 tsunami. Scores of othercountries lost citizens, making this a worldwide catastrophe. Legionsof aid workers are now helping...

Fromthe effects of the tsunami in December to the renewed Bushadministration assault on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, theworld has been awash in very bad news these days. We should know. Our...

Cruise ship initiative sets sail C-SAW has been charting a course towards a pollution-free cruise future since1999, leading the effort towards passage of the only federal rulerestricting cruise ship ...

A response to the recent essay ”The Death of Environmentalism“

Unfair to Kerry? Chris Clarke is right to suggest that “Red-state voters face environmental threats” (“Bushed Again,” Spring 2005 EIJ)but he’s dead wrong when he suggests that John Kerry ...

After much anticipation, Global Service Corps (GSC) proudly completed its first six-month Seeds of Survival (SOS)Fellowship Program. The program, which ran from Oct. 18, 2004 to April18, 2005, brought...

For close to four years, the Cape Wind offshore wind project proposal (see Spring, 2005 EIJ) has been making its tortured way through the Army Corps of Engineers permitting process under the Rivers an...

Bush’'s plan for your radioactive future

Dolphin-Safe in the Maldives The Maldivian tuna fishery in the Indian Ocean has been a part of International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP)‘s Dolphin-Safe program almost from its inception. M...

In Nepal, Heifer provides families water buffalo for draft power and milk. Darcy Kiefel/Heifer International photo Youdon’t see many water buffalo in central Arkansas. The one gazingbenignly...

Earth Island Institute welcomes a new project, Friends of Sierra Gorda. The project’s primary mission is to support and promote the work of the Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG) in Queretaro...

Natural and unnatural disasters leave millions without clean water

Dancing for peace At dusk, eight Winnemem Wintu dancers emerged along the edge of the Shasta Dam,a massive reservoir that has flooded their ancestral homeland. Eagle,turkey, and heron feathers adorn...

AFRICA A Kenyan slum dweller avoids trash and sewage as he walks in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. Reuters photoWaste not Asif grappling with the mountains of sand that desertification has castdow...

Farmers and big-city progressives made a grand coalition. Now that civility is coming undone.

The Great Baikal Trail

This guy ran a Texas-based chemical company that was one of the country's worst polluters