Earth Island Institute | Earth Island Journal

Autumn 2009

volume 24 no. 3

by Gar Smith

Protecting America’s Song Dog

Promoting Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Meet the 2009 Winners

The Lerma Santiago River Is One of the Most Contaminated Waterways in Mexico. So Why Do Government Officials Want People to Drink It?

by Jeff Conant

The Foreclosure Crisis Has Walloped Florida’s Gulf Coast, But Sprawl Still Threatens the State’s Endangered Panther.

by Alex Halperin

Tamalpais Walking

by Adam Federman

Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet…
And in the Process Sacrifice the World

by Jason Mark

Will a Barren Desert Be the Cradle for the Green Economy?

by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

Timber or Tourists? Environmentalists are Fighting Each Other Over How Best to Protect Forests in Guatemala.

by Michael Stoll

Food, Inc., Directed by Robert Kenner, Magnolia Pictures, 93 minutes
Fresh, Directed by Ana Sophia Jones, 72 minutes

by Jane Goodall with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson
416 pages, Grand Central Publishing, 2009

by Vandana Shiva
144 pages, South End Press, 2008

Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness
by Dean Kuipers
295 pages, Bloomsbury, 2009

by Aileen Suzara