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Autumn 2001
volume 16 no. 3
From the Editor
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown would like to get rid of "flitterbugs," those vexatious turboprop commuter planes that account for just a tenth of the flights and two percent of the passengers passing through SF International Airport.
These small planes take up valuable runway space and control tower time. If only Mayor Brown could get people hooked on bigger, less-frequent planes, he could stave off an environmental disaster – expanding the airport into San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco’s problem is all too familiar to managers of the world’s increasingly busy airports. The Southern California …more
Contents
- I Was Fired for Posting a Map
- Bush’s war against information
- A ‘Green Airport’? Meet the StarPort
- This airport is inclined to reduce pollution
- The Nuclear Body Count
- Nuclear Power is Neither ‘Cheap’ nor ‘Clean’
- The Jetcraft Juggernaut
- More Airplanes, More Airports, More Delays and More Pollution
- Around the World
- Dear Journal
- Ebb and Flow
- Eco Mole
- Making Waves
- EII in the News
- Positive Notes
- Drilling Alaska; Undermining the US
- Cancel the ‘Year of Ecotourism’
- An Open Letter to UN Secretary Kofi Annan
- The Children of Chernobyl
- Solutions: 23 Ways to Ease Our Impact on the Earth
- Honest Politicians
- Green Activism
- Goldman Foundation
- The Wind that Blows Over Our Ancestors
- Nature’s Power, Enron and Native Lands
- The Right to Be Heard
- Globalization versus the First Amendment
- One Victim’s Story
- The Global Monoculture
- ‘Free Trade’ versus Culture and Democracy
- ‘You’re Dead? We’re Proud!’ US Snuffs Tobacco Treaty
- Whaling in the Caribbean
- Whales Threatened by Oil
- Stop the Nuclear Brushfires
- DOE Plans to Burn Radioactive Fields at US Nuclear Sites
- ‘Mad Pet’ Disease
- Mad Cow Disease is Killing Europe’s Pets
- Bari and Cherney vs. USA
- Burn the Jets; Warm the Planet
- Ethical Consumer
- Computing Your Tree Debt
- ECO-Tourist Journal
- Correction
- Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto
- A Canadian Farmer Resists Genetic Pollution
- Prayer & Witness for the Earth
- Stop Mexico’s New Airport
- The Global Diet
- Monopoly: A First Amendment Right?
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