Ifyou are lucky, a bit of feedback comes in from the outside world everyonce in a while that tells you you’re on the right track. It might be anote of appreciation from someone for whom you did ...
Chris Clarke
Everyone’s Got a Story
You could say that Ariana Katovich, Earth Island Institute’s Director of Restoration Initiatives and one of the first Brower Youth Award winners, was born to fill her current job. Katovich doesn...
Chris Clarke
Cheney is No Sportsman
Thoseof you who read James Fennimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer might remembera scene in which the pioneers blast away indiscriminately at clouds ofpassenger pigeons, while the Deerslayer picks out...
Colleen F. Moore
Divine Destruction
Divine destructionThese are my comments to the article “Divine destruction” by Stephenie Hendricks:
Activists of any persuasion (religious, political, environmental, orwhatever) can fall...
EI Staff
Nature in the city
When renowned conservation scientist Peter Raven discovered the evergreen shrub Raven’s manzanita at the age of 14, hewas tramping about 1950s San Francisco as if it were a naturallandscape! A b...
Peter Brastow
Poison Under the Pavement
Beneath the asphalt: 17 to 30 million gallons of petroleum products
In one of the largest cities in one of the richest countries in theworld, millions of gallons of oil have been spreading under pe...
Elena Agarkova
Clear Skies in the Desert
Laughlin, Nevada is a green, well-watered oasis in North America’s driest desert. It is hemmed in by rock surrounding the valley like oven walls. To the west, the corrugated Newberry Mountains s...
Chris Clarke
Energy Action
It’s getting hot in here
Liz Veazey and Matt Stern
Ten Thousand Bicycles in Portland
Bikes, carpools, public transit, and planned development reduce emissions in Portland
APortland, Oregon, woman saves enough money to go to Europe three weeksevery year by using a bicycle as her mod...
Annie Birdsong
Seeking a Just Transition
Black Mesa TrustMembers of the Just Transition Coalition meet with the California Public Utilities Commission Ifirst met the young Navajo activist Enei Begaye in 1985, when she wasnine years old. She ...
Christopher McLeod
Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters
Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters (C-SAW) has been working to stop the dumping of waste from cruise shipsin Alaska, California, Maine, and Hawaii for six years, focusing onboth the discharg...
Gershon Cohen
Major Oil Spill in Alaska
With its March passage of a budget measure, the US Senate approved a provision to open up the Arctic National WildlifeRefuge to drilling – just as the region suffers one of the worst oilspills i...
Jason Leopold
Down in the Dirt
TheRealDirt.netThe author enjoys the moment of harvest.
A farmer takes a hard look at America’s favorite herbicideHarvest Week 6, 1999 This my second day in bed.
Iam pretty much immobile...
John Peterson
International Marine Mammal Project
Argentina Dolphin Safe program kicks offLast year, IMMP started monitoring Dolphin Safe tuna companies in Argentina though thelocal Wild Earth Foundation. Wild Earth contacted several tunacompanies an...
Mark J. Palmer
In Review
Primal Tears
by Kelpie Wilson
NorthAtlantic Books, 2005
320 pages, $13.95
PrimalTears is a funny, deep, exciting, and biologically correct novelspringing from an innovative idea: What if effo...
Karen Pickett
Oregon Energy
Sandia National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratory researchers investigate substances given off by a landfill A Pacific Northwest landfill captures a valuable energy sourceI approach the open pit o...
Frederick Reimers
Women’s Global Green Action Network
From grassroots to the bargaining table
Melinda Kramer and Mary Rose Kaczorowski
John Krist
Timber-dependent counties have had 100 years to kick their addiction to federal subsidy.
John Krist
Local News from All Over
AFRICADeporting wildlife youthforconservation.org Kenyans protest plans to export hundreds of wild animals to Thailand
Oppositionis growing among Kenyans to a plan to export 300 wild animals to the...
EI Staff
Earth Island Project Reports
In February, Red Panda Project (RPP) began a campaign to garner support for efforts to create the world’s first red panda reserve. Executive Director Brian Williams spoke to the San Diego chapte...